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The BRB allows you to place purchased fortifications in neutral territory. It also allows you to infiltrate units into it, while your opponent is disallowed from infiltrating units into it. However, I don't know of anything that would prevent your opponent from infiltrating withing 12 inches of the fortification, thereby denying it's use to your infiltrators if they got to infiltrate first. Is this right, or am I missing something?

Seems right to me. I haven't read anything that would prevent that in the BRB. (Not saying there isn't, just that I've not seen it)...)

Seems to be allowed. Makes sense fluff wise too. A Fortification in active use would have been in the enemy deploy zone (either because they quickly assembled it when they moved into the battlespace and prepared for battle or because the battle is a probe of the enemy line). So any Fortification in no-man's land would likely have been abandoned sometime previously.

cowmonaut wrote:
Seems to be allowed. Makes sense fluff wise too. A Fortification in active use would have been in the enemy deploy zone (either because they quickly assembled it when they moved into the battlespace and prepared for battle or because the battle is a probe of the enemy line). So any Fortification in no-man's land would likely have been abandoned sometime previously.

Well, I see your justification here, but the rules don't really support that since they forbid enemies from deploying inside it. If it were neutral, they could.

I can't find any flaw with your argument. Justify it as you will, no matter what, you are following all the rules. All of them.

 BetrayTheWorld wrote:
Well, I see your justification here, but the rules don't really support that since they forbid enemies from deploying inside it. If it were neutral, they could.

You can nearly always justify a rule's existence in fluff: Either the Fortification was abandoned because of some sort of attack (say Nerve Gas) and the enemy never secured it. After all, there could have been booby traps. Or heck, the enemy moving to secure the fortification could be what triggered the battle in the first place!

But yes, it does hurt that the enemy can deny your ability to infiltrate into the ruins. Space Wolves can even do it with a Chooser of the Slain. I guess the lesson here is that deploying Fortifications outside of your Deploy Zone is risky business.