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Hey,

I had two questions.

If the new Celestine's blessing rules tell me I can bless aunt at the very start of my turn, which is word for word when drop pods come down, do I get to decide which comes first?

I had a second question too... I know unit composition got a little more clear with the errata but I wanted to ask about the scout USR.

If I have a squad of scout bikers and attatch an infantry character to them can I still scout the bikes 12" and the character 6"?

The scout rule is more binary and it seems like it may not follow the model by model basis outlined with the whole run/turboboosing clsrification.

Thanks!

To the first, yes.

Regarding scout, you'd still need to maintain unit coherency, so I don't know how you could do this.

For the first question, if you're trying to bless a unit that has arrived by Deep Strike, I'm not so sure that is possible.

While rolling for the arrival of units in Reserves is done at the start of the turn, certainly moving on from Reserve is done at the start of the Movement phase. Deep Strike has you roll for arrival and then "deploy as follows" so is admittedly not the same as moving on from Reserve, however the Deep Strike rule does also mention:

"In the Movement phase during which they arrive, Deep Striking units..."

This suggests that, much the same as moving on from Reserve, arriving (I would suggest in the deploying sense, not the rolling for arrival itself) by Deep Strike happens in the Movement phase, and not part of the same start of turn prior to the Movement phase.

As for the Scout question, the Scout rule assumes a unit of a single rather than mixed unit type. I would certainly play it at least that each model could redeploy per its unit type, but that all models would need to retain unit coherency.

To clarify I'd be drop podding the unit I wanted to bless.

Drop Pods arrive at the very start of the turn which is a little different than deepstriking.

 Aijec wrote:


Drop Pods arrive at the very start of the turn which is a little different than deepstriking.

Not quite , tho the wording is so terrible it's better to avoid making a deal about it. Drop pods deploy by deep strike reserve, which in the deep strike rule says they come in in the movement phase.
But the drop pod rule then says they arrive at start of turn.. contradictory, kinda, as the start of turn is when you make your reserve rolls to determine what arrives.

I don't think you should be able to bless something not on the table at start of turn, but the wording is ambiguous.