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I could have bet the farm that objective markers were considered impassable terrain, but I can't find the rule in the book or in the FAQ. Am I losing my mind? I swore this was a thing.

Can someone help straighten me out here? Thank you.

Nah.....the objective its just a marker for a small piece of non terrain such as a wepon stash/comms array/small statue.
Chill and be happy.

Yeah,markers aren't terrain.... they're just markers.


Some tournaments have house rules that treat objectives as impassable terrain, but I don't think the core rules ever have.

 insaniak wrote:
Yeah,markers aren't terrain.... they're just markers.


Some tournaments have house rules that treat objectives as impassable terrain, but I don't think the core rules ever have.

This.

Also that since markers are not listed as terrain you could back right on top of one if you wish with a landraider or a monolith if you wanted. Unless I am missing something.

Here to beat a dead horse, but yeah objective markers are just arbitrary points on the map you have to hold. They're not terrain unless agreed upon by you and your opponent for the sake of holding onto some piece of terrain or model, but by default you can walk on top of them. Also, most players play it where the objective marker has an infinite height so verticality of where the objective is doesn't matter.

Can I actually Infiltrate something big (say, a Tyranid Sporocyst) on top of an objective marker?

Alcibiades wrote:
Can I actually Infiltrate something big (say, a Tyranid Sporocyst) on top of an objective marker?

yup sure can

Zone Mortalis has impassable objective markers.

If you've built a physical thing, it makes sense to count it as a physical thing, to stop shenanigans, model balancing and silliness.