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(Apologies if this has already been answered)
The way I'm interpreting "Subterranean Assault" is that you can set up up to 9" away from the enemy (turn 2 onwards) then disembark the models within (providing they are 9" away from the enemy) they can then follow the rules for disembarking, therefore move, shoot, charge etc as per the BRB.
I was hoping someone could confirm this as I'm hoping to use it as blight bombardment delivery method in an upcoming game.
Many thanks in advance.

Paranoimiac wrote:
(Apologies if this has already been answered)
The way I'm interpreting "Subterranean Assault" is that you can set up up to 9" away from the enemy (turn 2 onwards) then disembark the models within (providing they are 9" away from the enemy) they can then follow the rules for disembarking, therefore move, shoot, charge etc as per the BRB.
I was hoping someone could confirm this as I'm hoping to use it as blight bombardment delivery method in an upcoming game.
Many thanks in advance.

It arrives "At the end of any of your Movement phases". This is no different to Drop Pods or any other unit that arrives "At the end of any of your Movement phases", you can disembark, but you cannot move the disembarking unit (nor the Drill) any further that turn, because if you do then you didn't set up the Drill "At the end of any of your Movement phase".

Ah, thank you. I completely missed that it's at the end of the movement phase, I thought it seemed too good to be true. Really wish I'd fact checked prior to purchasing one ; ) haha, oh well back to the drawing board.

Paranoimiac wrote:

The way I'm interpreting "Subterranean Assault" is that you can set up up to 9" away from the enemy...

Note that it's "... more than 9" away from any enemy..."

The unit disembarking can still shoot and charge, as can the Termite. Termites are ace. >9” makes it tougher but you can still wreck face.

When does disembarking take place during the movement phase? Am I reading your responses correctly when this is what I take away from them?:

1. Deploy the drill >9" away from enemy at end of phase
2. Disembark unit <3" from drill
3. Charge with disembarked unit in fight phase with >6" charge

Is this right or am I misunderstanding something?

Gidun wrote:
When does disembarking take place during the movement phase? Am I reading your responses correctly when this is what I take away from them?:

1. Deploy the drill >9" away from enemy at end of phase
2. Disembark unit <3" from drill
3. Charge with disembarked unit in fight phase with >6" charge

Is this right or am I misunderstanding something?

You have to disembark the unit more than 9" away as per the Subterranean Assault rule.

Aha, thanks. Just checked out the rules on forgeworld instead of battlescribe, it seems like the latter missed some info.

Still pretty neat delivery system for anything with icon of wrath. You wouldn't happen to know any shenanigans to reduce the required charge range in this particular case for csm?

The BattleScribe rules haven’t missed any info regarding disembarking and distances. It’s all there correctly.

Weird, for me there's a difference in wording between the hellforged termite and terrax-pattern termite assault drill. I even tried updating data to make sure. I'll sort out a couple of pictures of the different wordings when I get home (If I'm at all allowed to show such pictures, otherwise I'll type it down).

Or are we simply talking about the two different variants to begin with?

Gidun wrote:
Weird, for me there's a difference in wording between the hellforged termite and terrax-pattern termite assault drill. I even tried updating data to make sure. I'll sort out a couple of pictures of the different wordings when I get home (If I'm at all allowed to show such pictures, otherwise I'll type it down).

Or are we simply talking about the two different variants to begin with?

You're generally ok to show a specific part of a rule for clarification purposes, just don't show the whole datasheet.

The hellforged termite is not the terrax pattern assault drill. They are two different models, with different datasheets.

Yeah, it seems to boil down to me not reading the thread title close enough and assuming people were talking about the hellforged version. My bad.