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Hi All,

Could do with some help clarifying rules on deployment of Infiltratirs as had some challenge within my gaming group on this.

Q1, do infiltrators count as a deployment drop? Ie they don’t deploy during deployment and are not put in reservve, just placed on battlefield before the first battle round begins. Does this count toward the number of drops when determining who gets the +1 to go first?

Q2, when placing infiltrators on the board, are these places before or after you have determined which player is going first and and resolved the sieze roll.

Appreciate if you can point to the page number in the rule book that confirms the above. When looking at it, it seems unclear as only mentions the first battle round, it doesn’t seem to explicitly say before or after roll for first turn/sieze roll.

Appreciate help clarifying.

There are technically no such things as "infiltrators" in 8th edition. Er you talking about the "Strike from the Shadows" / "Forward operatives" stratagems?

If the rule says "set up" then it counts as a drop.

I’m referring to things like Rangers and Ratlings etc.

A third question in fact is also what order you place them when both you and your opponent have units that are placed in this manner.

Appreciate any clarifications you can give on those 3 questions

Thanks

You roll off when opponent can place too then alternate turns if multiple units and yes they count as being in reserves for counting pyrposes

There was another thread that I responded to with my thoughts on the matter regarding Eldar Rangers. The thread sorta got detailed shortly after as they ended up talking about the strategem Phantasm, but you can ignore that bit

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/743814.page#9682927

EDIT: Just woke up and clearly forgot to read things. Anyway to answer your questions:

1. Yes they do as it happens outside of the deployment 'phase'
2. They are placed at the beginning of the first battle round so I think in order to determine proper turn order and allow the game to begin, they are placed after the seize roll
3. Roll off would be the go-to answer in that case, IMO

Thanks anticitzen013, appreciate the responses m. Makes sense.

Was just struggling to find the clear order of things in the rule book.