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As per title can you put a TFC on top of a bastion?

I'm not sure for rules for embarking artillery into a building or even if you can in order to move it through the building to the top, but if the bastion is in your deployment zone I don't see why it couldn't start up there

Units don't embark onto battlements, so there's no restriction on unit types... As long as it fits, go for it.

Sorry should have specified it would be placed there during deployment.

Yep, that's fine. As long as it fits.

So in everyone's opinion how many do you think I can cram in there?

Not having either model at hand, I'd bet 2. Maybe 3 if you don't get the gun for the bastion.

rigeld2 wrote:
Not having either model at hand, I'd bet 2. Maybe 3 if you don't get the gun for the bastion.

I agree with a safe bet of 2, after cramming them up there though. Not sure of the point of the quad gun, unless you're going to ally in a Vindicaire or something.

For after the TFC dies.

Prob wouldn't get the gun, it'd be just for the cover save for the cannons, 3+ in fortification right?

Colin747 wrote:
Prob wouldn't get the gun, it'd be just for the cover save for the cannons, 3+ in fortification right?

Which can be done with any ruin though.
Ruins give 4+
Techmarine can improve the cover save to a 3+

Good chance of fighting a warpsmith in upcoming campaign who in rules can lower cover of ruins by 1.

Neither Warpsmith or Techmarine can affect the battlements of a Bastion though

Exactly, assuming I'm write about the 3+ in a fortification.

4+ Cover Saves from behind the walls on the top part of a Bastion.

Colin747 wrote:
Exactly, assuming I'm write about the 3+ in a fortification.

You cannot improve a Fortification, only Ruins so it would be a 4+ cover plus any other special rules like Stealth or Shrouded in Night fighting or from a psychic blessing.

For some reason I thought fortifications granted a 3+, guess 4+ will have to good enough lol

While cover saves from fortifications are 3+, the FAQ clearly states that battlements only grant 4+ cover.

Fortifications grant 3+, but GW FAQ'd the battlements of fortifications to give only 4+ cover.

Q: What is the armour value of battlements? (p95)
A: Battlements have no armour value as they are not a building. They serve to protect any models on the roof of the building in the same way as barricades and walls (see page 104), offering a 4+ cover save.

Having said that, the sheer amount of wrong in that FAQ response suggests that it was written by someone with a fairly spotty knowledge of the 6th edition rules, and so may well be corrected if and when someone from the studio notices...

More importantly, why are you putting it on a bastion when you could be putting it onto 75pts of landing pad cheesiness?

or just stuff in in ruins that are bolstered

nightsorrow wrote:
or just stuff in in ruins that are bolstered

You must not have read the thread:

Colin747 wrote:
Good chance of fighting a warpsmith in upcoming campaign who in rules can lower cover of ruins by 1.