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Basically if your infantry can shoot out of an open-topped vehicle, why can't that vehicle let the infantry inside hold the objective? Currently that would seem a-bit over-powered in some circumstances, but as a rule moving forward, I think it would help many squishy armies contend objectives by allowing transports the ability to hold an objective with objective-secured.

bat702 wrote:
Basically if your infantry can shoot out of an open-topped vehicle, why can't that vehicle let the infantry inside hold the objective? Currently that would seem a-bit over-powered in some circumstances, but as a rule moving forward, I think it would help many squishy armies contend objectives by allowing transports the ability to hold an objective with objective-secured.

Would it still count as just one model?

It could count as the transport gaining objective secured and just be one model, or it could count as however many infantry with objective secured are inside the transport, not sure which would be better as far as balancing wise

I would allow it to just be the transport - otherwise orks in battlewagons could prove somewhat powerful - which itself isn't a bad thing, but it's probably more balanced if it just has the chance to push non-objsec units off of objectives.

Thus the heirarchy would be:

Single models<squads><objsec transport><objsec squads>

I'm not 100% sure if this makes sense from a fluff perspective. When holding the objective, I've always pictured them as doing other stuff such as setting up scanners, flags, defensive positions, etc. Stuff which requires you to be out of the vehicle.