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Are flyers able to come on to the board, even if an entire army manages to block the opponents deployment zone with no 1" of space between models given for where they arrive? Saw an article of a Tau player pulling it off against marine bikers awhile back and was wondering if it would happen or could flyers fly right over them as normal?

Flyer and skimmers move over intervening models, so as long as you can end your move legally your fine. The reason it worked with the Tau vs Space Marines is because the SM had no way to come on without moving within 1" of an enemy model.

I would suppose so, but how would you propose surrounding the entire board two inches at a time? lots of lucky tervigon rolls?

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:
I would suppose so, but how would you propose surrounding the entire board two inches at a time? lots of lucky tervigon rolls?

Infiltrating Genestealers.

Infilatrating. The space marine biker made the mistake of choosing to deploy instead of outflank: Game Over. Any player who starts entire army in reserve can get ninjad by enough infiltrators such as: Tau kroot , Ork Commnados, or even scout spam marine armies (although extremely rare)

That old trick went away with the arrival of 6th.

Basically under 5th you could reserve everything. If you did this and you opponent managed to block your board edge completely then it was an auto lose.

With 6th you can only reserve 50% of your force (give or take depending on special rules defining what counts towards that 50%). With that in mind, using infiltrating genestealers (or anything else for that matter) to block a board edge is of limited utility as they would be summarily executed by the forces your opponent already has on the field.

Regardless, flyers and skimmers ignore everything underneath their path as they perform their movement. The only way to stop them is to place models everywhere that the flyer or skimmer could possibly stop... Which, unless you have a horde army at a high points level is going to be pretty much impossible.

From what I understand, at that Tournament you could not have special characters, otherwise the Bikes would have been able to Outflank thanks to KHAAAAAAAAANNN!!!!

 Happyjew wrote:
From what I understand, at that Tournament you could not have special characters, otherwise the Bikes would have been able to Outflank thanks to KHAAAAAAAAANNN!!!!

That was ETC Europe. The army was missing Khan, I just don't recall exactly why.

Yes the tourney wasn't allowing named characters.

As to if you could keep the enemy from bringing fliers on the board or deploying a drop pod army, yes you can, but it requires masses if infiltrators.

Currently only kroot and genestealers can cover the board quick enough.

No, you really can't. Unless you cover the board not just the board edge.