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Through ambiguous english, a rules lawyer can argue that taking a razorback and a drop pod is allowed.

Common sense tells me it is not. I know this is often lacking in rules lawyers but sadly, though written in english and conceived in England, it does not employ doctorates in english or contract lawyers who would read and tell them how their laws are ambiguous.

"Sergeant, get your squad into the drop pod and we will do an assault on the evil xenos!"
"Sir?"
"What is it brother?"
"Well do we know what we are facing?"
"It is a tournament sergeant, we have an idea but we are not sure of course."
"Well I was just thinking, you know the boys and me really don't think it would be a good idea to drop pod into the middle of a genestealer hoard so could we have a rhino too? You know just in case?"
"Librarian Bob. What does the Codex Astartes say."
<Opens the latest codex of the true blue marines.>
"Well it is hard to make out... it appears that despite the apparent idiocy of providing two transports for one combat squad, it MAY be allowed as it provides extra cover for the boys and seeing it provides extra profit margin for the Great Works, they have encouraged it as it now costs us less to purchase them per the codex official price."

"Excellent! I think we shall fight this battle in a way never fought before! Let us expend our precious drop pods with missiles and no troops as minefields into the enemies lines while we all ride into battle in our rhinos. I wonder why The Great Blue All Knowing Primarch never wrote this tactic down in the preceeding millenia?"

DAaddict wrote:Through ambiguous english, a rules lawyer can argue that taking a razorback and a drop pod is allowed.

Common sense tells me it is not. I know this is often lacking in rules lawyers but sadly, though written in english and conceived in England, it does not employ doctorates in english or contract lawyers who would read and tell them how their laws are ambiguous.

"Sergeant, get your squad into the drop pod and we will do an assault on the evil xenos!"
"Sir?"
"What is it brother?"
"Well do we know what we are facing?"
"It is a tournament sergeant, we have an idea but we are not sure of course."
"Well I was just thinking, you know the boys and me really don't think it would be a good idea to drop pod into the middle of a genestealer hoard so could we have a rhino too? You know just in case?"
"Librarian Bob. What does the Codex Astartes say."
<Opens the latest codex of the true blue marines.>
"Well it is hard to make out... it appears that despite the apparent idiocy of providing two transports for one combat squad, it MAY be allowed as it provides extra cover for the boys and seeing it provides extra profit margin for the Great Works, they have encouraged it as it now costs us less to purchase them per the codex official price."

"Excellent! I think we shall fight this battle in a way never fought before! Let us expend our precious drop pods with missiles and no troops as minefields into the enemies lines while we all ride into battle in our rhinos. I wonder why The Great Blue All Knowing Primarch never wrote this tactic down in the preceeding millenia?"

LMAO

Come on people. 1 squad = 1 transport. FAQ will clear this up, I hope. :S

Stelek wrote:Actually reserves IS deployment.
Read the rest of the rules.
That disagree with you.

I'm not seeing how.

The decision to put a unit into Reserves is made during deployment... but it's listed specifically as something you do instead of deploying them.

Nothing in the rest of the section contradicts that idea. It simply contonues to refer to reserves as something that happens during the deployment period.

Stelek:

Could you explain how you are reading the rules as disagreeing with the notion that putting a unit into reserves is deployment, and not something that you do instead of deploying them?