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Hi I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm asking here because me and my player group got a little confused about the QnA from
Frontline gaming regarding 8th edition.
Reece states that dropping terminators and moving them again with warptime is a good combo.

RAW i don't see that this is possible because the reinforcement drop states that you cannot move or advance further during this turn.

Thoughts on this? Am I Reading something wrong (not native)

Regards
Jannek

You cannot move or advance in the movement phase. Warptime happens in the psychic phase.


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Warptime provides a permission to move again, which is not explicitly denied

Yeah but reinforcements state that you cannot move or advance further this turn. That's why I'm confused.

This is actually going to come up with a whole bunch of abilities. Lots of things let a unit "X as if it were its X phase". So how do these permissions interact with other restrictions or modifiers?

Modifiers almost certainly work as normal. If an ability lets you shoot as if it were your shooting phase, and the unit advanced this turn and is firing assault weapons, then it hits at -1.

Restrictions aren't as clear to me. If the unit would not be allowed to shoot in its shooting phase -- perhaps because it fell back in the movement phase -- does an ability that lets it shoot as if it were its shooting phase override that?

The argument that it does is, I guess, that when we look at the shooting phase rules there's nothing about units that fell back being unable to shoot. It's just that you can't pick them to shoot with. But if we had a clear prohibition on the unit being able to shoot, it's not clear to me which would take priority. It also kind of looks like you can't pick a unit to shoot with if it Advanced, and so models with assault weapons are never actually going to be able to fire them if they Advanced because their units can never be chosen to shoot.

And that seems to be the case with the Terminators. The Reinforcements rules say that "Units that are set up in this manner cannot move or Advance further during the turn they arrive...", whereas the Warptime power says that the unit it is cast on "can immediately move as if it were its Movement phase."

So how do you move the Terminators as if it were their Movement phase when, if it were their Movement phase (or any other phase), they couldn't move?

The question is more like: is warptime possible after reinforcement?

You can place terminators regular, move them in the movement phase and move them again with warptime. To me the reinforcement drop doesn't allow to move the unit again in this turn. But maybe I'm wrong.

the terminators can't move or advance in the turn that they arive, so warptime will be wasted on them in the turn that they arive. Seeing how warptime doesn't override the reinforcements rule

terry wrote:
the terminators can't move or advance in the turn that they arive, so warptime will be wasted on them in the turn that they arive. Seeing how warptime doesn't override the reinforcements rule

This is correct for now.