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I'm currently playing Chaos Daemons, so my knowledge of transports is seriously lacking. I was looking in the Dark Eldar codex and reading about Duke Sliscus - it says he has to begin the game deployed with a unit of warriors or trueborn. Say you wanted him to join a unit of Wyches; if you deployed everything close enough, would it be possible for him to leave the warriors/trueborn, join the wyches and embark on a Raider with them first turn?

Also, do his warriors/trueborn lose the poison buff when he leaves? It doesn't specifically state that they do.

I only ask because he seems like he would do better in a CC unit, and if all units are in transports then the trick would be getting him out of one transport and into another. I don't know if it would be possible it to go: 1) Duke leaves warriors, joins wyches 2) Wyches and Duke board Raider 3) Warriors board different Raider.

I looked at the FAQ and saw where it says he can be deployed normally if the army has no warriors/trueborn, so in this situation we're assuming that the army does have them.

The IC rules in the book cover this.

To the point - "Note that, after an
Independent Character joins a unit, that unit can move no further that
Movement phase."

Sorry, I can't help you on the other question.

You should be able to move the Duke and embark him onto the transport, then embark the unit onto the transport thus joining the IC to the unit.

fenshysa wrote:
I'm currently playing Chaos Daemons, so my knowledge of transports is seriously lacking. I was looking in the Dark Eldar codex and reading about Duke Sliscus - it says he has to begin the game deployed with a unit of warriors or trueborn. Say you wanted him to join a unit of Wyches; if you deployed everything close enough, would it be possible for him to leave the warriors/trueborn, join the wyches and embark on a Raider with them first turn?

Yes. All that would need to be done is to move the Duke within 2" of an access point and he can embark.

Also, do his warriors/trueborn lose the poison buff when he leaves? It doesn't specifically state that they do.

Yes. You nominate a unit and they have upgraded weapons.

 DeathReaper wrote:
You should be able to move the Duke and embark him onto the transport, then embark the unit onto the transport thus joining the IC to the unit.

So 1) Duke leaves the warriors, embarks on the Raider 2) Wyches embark on the Raider with the Duke 3) Warriors embark on a different Raider?

Happyjew wrote:Yes. You nominate a unit and they have upgraded weapons.

Thanks.

fenshysa wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
You should be able to move the Duke and embark him onto the transport, then embark the unit onto the transport thus joining the IC to the unit.

So 1) Duke leaves the warriors, embarks on the Raider 2) Wyches embark on the Raider with the Duke 3) Warriors embark on a different Raider?

That is possible.

The Wyches can embark on the Raider first then the duke can embark, either way.

Thanks to everyone, those were some prompt and informative answers

Doesn't the IC's move have to be the one to bring him into the other unit for him to join?

I'm fairly certain the Wyches have to be the ones to embark first (or start the game embarked) in this instance.

The joining happens at the end of the Movement phase (page 39). The point about the unit moving no further is just a clarifier - in practice, it really doesn't matter which unit moves first. So you can absolutely move the IC within coherency of the unit, THEN move the unit, and then only after you've completed all other movement does the actual join take place.

Just took a look at page 78 for transports to check, as well... it's legal to embark the unit and the IC as described above and THEN move the transport too - as long as it didn't move already.

 Super Ready wrote:
The joining happens at the end of the Movement phase (page 39). The point about the unit moving no further is just a clarifier - in practice, it really doesn't matter which unit moves first. So you can absolutely move the IC within coherency of the unit, THEN move the unit, and then only after you've completed all other movement does the actual join take place.

Just took a look at page 78 for transports to check, as well... it's legal to embark the unit and the IC as described above and THEN move the transport too - as long as it didn't move already.

Ah you are right, must be a 5th edition hangover.

This is actually a very common tactic amongst DE players. Partly because the Duke is better in a wyche squad, partly because he often can't fit in the transport of the squad he starts with.

 Super Ready wrote:
Just took a look at page 78 for transports to check, as well... it's legal to embark the unit and the IC as described above and THEN move the transport too - as long as it didn't move already.

So if I follow this correctly, I can do the following:

1) Start the Duke with 5 Warriors on the board next to an empty Venom and a Raider with 9 Wyches
2) The Duke boards the Raider with the Wyches
3) The Warriors board the Venom
4) Both the Raider and Venom can then move

Is that correct?

fenshysa wrote:

 Super Ready wrote:
Just took a look at page 78 for transports to check, as well... it's legal to embark the unit and the IC as described above and THEN move the transport too - as long as it didn't move already.

So if I follow this correctly, I can do the following:

1) Start the Duke with 5 Warriors on the board next to an empty Venom and a Raider with 9 Wyches
2) The Duke boards the Raider with the Wyches
3) The Warriors board the Venom
4) Both the Raider and Venom can then move

Is that correct?

Yes that is correct.