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At this time adding a cybernetica datasmith to castelan robots makes the unit infantry. If you see that opponent has lots of anti-infantry, can you decide not to deploy him?

I don't think you have that option.

"Models must be set up wholly within..."

"Continue setting up units until both players have set up all the units from their armies..."

Julistaja wrote:
At this time adding a cybernetica datasmith to castelan robots makes the unit infantry. If you see that opponent has lots of anti-infantry, can you decide not to deploy him?

The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so. If you do not want the Cybernetica Datasmith to convey the INFANTRY keyword to the Catsellan Robots, during the "Declare Battle Formations" step, don't declare that that Leader is attached to any units; the model will then act as a unit in its own right.

All units in your army must be deployed during the deployment step, except for any units which you have declared to be in Strategic Reserves during the "Declare Battle Formations" step; only up to 25% of your army can be placed in Strategic Reserves. If a unit has an ability that otherwise allows it to be placed in non-Strategic Reserves (e.g. Deep Strike) that will be outlined on its datasheet. You're never actually forced to bring units from your Strategic Reserves onto the battlefield; if for some utterly inexplicable reason you've paid points to include a unit in your army you don't intend to use, you can place it in Strategic Reserves and then leave it there for the entire battle; it'll count as destroyed at the end of the battle anyway though.

The only ambiguity I see is the part of the deployment step which states you deploy units until all units have been deployed "or you have run out of room to deploy units." In as far as I can see, there's no actual elaboration on what happens to units that cannot be deployed due to a lack of space.

Scion of Fate wrote:
The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so.

From the LEADER ability on the Cybernetica Datasmith's card:

You must attach this model to a Kastelan Robots unit, even if one or more other Cybernetica Datasmith models have already been attached to it.

 Ghaz wrote:

Scion of Fate wrote:
The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so.

From the LEADER ability on the Cybernetica Datasmith's card:

You must attach this model to a Kastelan Robots unit, even if one or more other Cybernetica Datasmith models have already been attached to it.

On the other hand, the version of Leader that most models use is the one in the core rulebook which says

Some Character units have ‘Leader’ listed on their datasheets. Such Character units are known as Leaders, and the units they can lead – known as their Bodyguard units – are listed on their datasheet.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, for each Leader in your army, if your army also includes one or more of that Leader’s Bodyguard units, you can select one of those Bodyguard units. That Leader will then attach to that Bodyguard unit for the duration of the battle and is said to be leading that unit. Each Bodyguard unit can only have one Leader attached to it.
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and picking one of the leader models from Daemons at random, the Leader section typically says "can be attached":

This model can be attached to the following units:
■ BLOODCRUSHERS

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what the ratio of mandatory attachment units to non-mandatory attachment units, since it's not disputed that some units do mandate attachment.

Well he's not asking about that but can you not deploy him at all. Ie let it be dead pre-game

 Ghaz wrote:

Scion of Fate wrote:
The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so.

From the LEADER ability on the Cybernetica Datasmith's card:

You must attach this model to a Kastelan Robots unit, even if one or more other Cybernetica Datasmith models have already been attached to it.

Ah, you are quite correct, that will teach me to speak on indices I don't play.


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tneva82 wrote:
Well he's not asking about that but can you not deploy him at all. Ie let it be dead pre-game

With the answer still standing at "no," unless the unit is simply placed in Strategic Reserves and left there.

Unless anyone knows of any elaboration on the "no room to deploy" rule?

Scion of Fate wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Scion of Fate wrote:
The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so.

From the LEADER ability on the Cybernetica Datasmith's card:

You must attach this model to a Kastelan Robots unit, even if one or more other Cybernetica Datasmith models have already been attached to it.

Ah, you are quite correct, that will teach me to speak on indices I don't play.


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tneva82 wrote:
Well he's not asking about that but can you not deploy him at all. Ie let it be dead pre-game

With the answer still standing at "no," unless the unit is simply placed in Strategic Reserves and left there.

Unless anyone knows of any elaboration on the "no room to deploy" rule?

Is it me, or does that feel like a TFG move?

That said, you still MUST attach him to the robots. There's no conditional qualifier about being in reserves or not.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

Scion of Fate wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Scion of Fate wrote:
The Leader ability allows you to attach that unit to another unit if you choose; it does not compel you to do so.

From the LEADER ability on the Cybernetica Datasmith's card:

You must attach this model to a Kastelan Robots unit, even if one or more other Cybernetica Datasmith models have already been attached to it.

Ah, you are quite correct, that will teach me to speak on indices I don't play.


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tneva82 wrote:
Well he's not asking about that but can you not deploy him at all. Ie let it be dead pre-game

With the answer still standing at "no," unless the unit is simply placed in Strategic Reserves and left there.

Unless anyone knows of any elaboration on the "no room to deploy" rule?

Is it me, or does that feel like a TFG move?

That said, you still MUST attach him to the robots. There's no conditional qualifier about being in reserves or not.

Yes, as per the specific ability on this particular unit, you must attach it, whether the unit is deployed or not.

I can't see any benefit to choosing to take two units (the Castellans and the Datasmith) only to let them all languish in Strategic Reserves until they're destroyed at the end of the battle, but it remains technically an option. It seems completely pointless to me though; you've just wasted a portion of your army's points value.

There definitely does need to be clarification on what happens if your deployment zone is full though; it's weird that they included the possibility in the rules, but then didn't actually explain what happens if it occurs. Not that I can imagine an AdMech army playing with the recommended battlefield size for the game size would ever realistically do that, without someone deliberately being That Guy and bringing six maximum-sized units of every BATTLELINE option and spacing them all exactly 2" apart.