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So after looking over my roommate's copy of the new Daemon codex we found an interesting point about the Icons, unlike other pieces of equipment that reduce or stop Deep Strike scatter, the icons do not specify that they must be on the board at the beginning of the turn. So if you have a unit with an Icon and an Instrument and it uses the Instruments rule to bring in another unit that unit can use the Icon of the first. We couldn't agree on the result of this, my main point was that units coming in from Deep Strike cannot make use of rules and abilities that weren't present at the beginning of turn. I'm curious how Dakka interprets this rule.

RAW: You have it correct. Icon/Instrument combo for a 1-2 drop is legal, because neither requires you to be on the table at the start of the turn.

Previously, it was always the case and stated that it MUST be on the table before the start of the turn (Teleport Homers, Locator Beacons, previous Icons of Chaos) That is not the case any longer. Welcome to the new age of Chaos!

Since the instrument simply allows you to enter from reserve without a dice roll, the two issues are really separate (except when we look at setting precedence in RAI). The instrument explicitly works when off the table. The icon must be on the table, but does not explicitly mention that it must be on the table at the start of the round (as it did in the previous codex). So, RAW the 1-2 combo works. RAI - no way to know as this codex is a sweeping change... Since the instrument works off the table and no mention is made in the icon language about when it must be there I would personally say RAI it should work as soon as it hits the table. Only time and and FAQ has the possibility of changing this one IMHO.

Also the Warlord Trait Warp Beacon states that you're warlord must be on the table at the start of the turn to use it so I'm guessing no such restriction on the Icons.

From page 125 of the Warhammer 40K 6th edition rulebook:

Unless stated otherwise, a unit cannot charge, or use any abilities or special rules that must be used at the start of the turn, in the turn it arrives from reserve.

That would prevent the tactic from working.

Please show where it must be used " at the start of the turn", as the Icon is used after rolling for reserves, which is after the startr of the turn....

Unless it has been changed from previous editions, don't all reserves for that turn arrive simultaneously at the beginning of the turn?

 Ghaz wrote:
Unless it has been changed from previous editions, don't all reserves for that turn arrive simultaneously at the beginning of the turn?

Without regard for what the rules said last edition (as I didn't look at them) in this edition you:

1. Roll for each unit being held in reserve, one at a time; then
2. Deploy each unit, one at a time.

Page 124, middle left column.

Page 124, middle right column:

When Reserves arrive, the player picks any one of the units arriving and deploys it, moving it onto the table as described below. Then he picks another unit and deploys it, and so on until all arriving units are on the table. The player can then proceed to move his other units as normal.

Since the Movement Phase is the start of the turn and there are no sub-phases, it can be argued that anything that happens before voluntary movement occurs 'at the start of the turn'.

 Ghaz wrote:
Page 124, middle right column:

When Reserves arrive, the player picks any one of the units arriving and deploys it, moving it onto the table as described below. Then he picks another unit and deploys it, and so on until all arriving units are on the table. The player can then proceed to move his other units as normal.

Since the Movement Phase is the start of the turn and there are no sub-phases, it can be argued that anything that happens before voluntary movement occurs 'at the start of the turn'.

You're free to argue anything you want, but you're not making a compelling case. I don't see anything that refers to start of the turn in this edition...

All actions which happen at the start of the movement phase are happening at the start of the turn. The FAQ ruling n psychic powers and arrival from Reserve reinforces this.

 punchdub wrote:
I don't see anything that refers to start of the turn in this edition...

Other than the rule I've already quoted and given a page reference for?