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I'm itching to get my hands on a FW Landspeeder Tempest but am struggling to interpret the Ramjets rule which states, "...when a unit with this ability Advances, all models in the unit must move between 20"-35"."

Does this mean it moves it's base 15" and then an additional 20"-35" as the Advance, or that its move characteristic changes to 20"-35". Ie. Is the maximum distance moved in a turn when it Advances 50" or 35"?

The core rule suggests an Advance is an additional d6, which would suggest that the Tempest moves 15" and then advances the extra 20"-35", but a 50" move in total sounds an awfully long way!

Are there similar rules worded slight differently that could shed light on this? Or is it clear and I'm just being dumb?

Waldorf wrote:
I'm itching to get my hands on a FW Landspeeder Tempest but am struggling to interpret the Ramjets rule which states, "...when a unit with this ability Advances, all models in the unit must move between 20"-35"."

Does this mean it moves it's base 15" and then an additional 20"-35" as the Advance, or that its move characteristic changes to 20"-35". Ie. Is the maximum distance moved in a turn when it Advances 50" or 35"?

The core rule suggests an Advance is an additional d6, which would suggest that the Tempest moves 15" and then advances the extra 20"-35", but a 50" move in total sounds an awfully long way!

Are there similar rules worded slight differently that could shed light on this? Or is it clear and I'm just being dumb?

The core rules literally do nothing because the Tempests special rule changes what happens when you advance.

When you advance in a Tempest, you instead move between 20" and 35" instead of it's normal 15".

"Supersonic" models state "When this model Advances, increase its Move characteristic by 20" until the end of the phase", which is not the same as the Ramjets which totally change your movement speed.

Cheers.

On a random aside, @Waldorf... having played a Tempest tonight, the weapons don't synergise wonderfully with its abilities. Use the Ramjet? Get to fire nothing. Move? -1 to hit. It's an odd bod, but it was fun in first game. Lots of dakka, a bit fragile with only 6W, but shrugged off a bunch of stuff and splatter Wraithguard. Ramjet is great for Maelstrom and grabbing Objectives.

The next game the sneaky Eldar gits offed it before it could even move, so it was clearly a prime threat to them!