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Here's the scenario,
A hell drake flies over a unit and off the table.
Can it vector strike the unit?
The rules on vector strike seem to allow this and flyer rule for leaving combat airspace don't seem to disallow this.

I think it does and i let him do it but i just wanted to see what you guys think.

There has been quite a bit of debate over this, however the only prerequisite required to vector strike is that the model has moved over an enemy unit in its movement phase, so it is permitted.

I'd say no, to make any form of attack (Vector Strikes are an attack) you need to be in play (i.e. on the table).

If you are in ongoing reserves (due to having left combat airspace) are you in play?

Normal attacks need things like line of sight and range and suchlike, so require a model to be on the board. The vector strike rules are explicit in how attacks are generated, designated and how wounds are applied. The only requirement is that the vector striking model has moved over the target unit in the movement phase. Where the model is "now" doesn't matter, only where it has been.

You could conceivably also move over a model, find you can't move far enough and crash. Heldrake destroyed and no longer in play. But it still moved over a model.

Yes, as you have fulfilled the requirements to make the attack

It is why the attack uses Random Allocation

 Krellnus wrote:
I'd say no, to make any form of attack (Vector Strikes are an attack) you need to be in play (i.e. on the table).

If you are in ongoing reserves (due to having left combat airspace) are you in play?

At the time you made the vector strike, yes.

It is a pretty easy question to answer.

Agreed with most here, the only requirement is that it moved over said unit. Where the Hellturkey is now, is irrelevant.

 Portugal Jones wrote:

 Krellnus wrote:
I'd say no, to make any form of attack (Vector Strikes are an attack) you need to be in play (i.e. on the table).

If you are in ongoing reserves (due to having left combat airspace) are you in play?

At the time you made the vector strike, yes.

It is a pretty easy question to answer.

Vector Strikes are resolved at the end of your movement are they not?

Does it matter? are you trying to say it needs LOS?.

IF I warflamed your units with a single horror who then died to a double peril but power still went off would you not need to do a toughness test at the end of the phase? ok that is a little different but still it is something that has happened during the phase but is resolved at the end of the phase

MarkyMark wrote:
Does it matter? are you trying to say it needs LOS?.

IF I warflamed your units with a single horror who then died to a double peril but power still went off would you not need to do a toughness test at the end of the phase? ok that is a little different but still it is something that has happened during the phase but is resolved at the end of the phase

Yes it does matter, Vector Strike is an attack and like all attacks it therefore requires you to be on the table, just as if you were to use any ability, or are you trying to say that if I have my Riptide in reserve I can intercept with it?

Like what other attacks?, attacks done in the shooting phase?, but its the movement phase!....... Exactly.

Does your riptide have LOS to the model that come on from reserves to intercept it?, nope therefore you cannot.

 Krellnus wrote:

MarkyMark wrote:
Does it matter? are you trying to say it needs LOS?.

IF I warflamed your units with a single horror who then died to a double peril but power still went off would you not need to do a toughness test at the end of the phase? ok that is a little different but still it is something that has happened during the phase but is resolved at the end of the phase

Yes it does matter, Vector Strike is an attack and like all attacks it therefore requires you to be on the table, just as if you were to use any ability, or are you trying to say that if I have my Riptide in reserve I can intercept with it?

If you have range and LOS, then yes. You dont? Then no.

 Krellnus wrote:
I'd say no, to make any form of attack (Vector Strikes are an attack) you need to be in play (i.e. on the table).

No-one shoots whilst embarked in your games then, if that's true (which it isn't).
The mechanisms are all there to allow you to do this, unlike firing a model from literally off-table.

 Krellnus wrote:

MarkyMark wrote:
Does it matter? are you trying to say it needs LOS?.

IF I warflamed your units with a single horror who then died to a double peril but power still went off would you not need to do a toughness test at the end of the phase? ok that is a little different but still it is something that has happened during the phase but is resolved at the end of the phase

Yes it does matter, Vector Strike is an attack and like all attacks it therefore requires you to be on the table, just as if you were to use any ability, or are you trying to say that if I have my Riptide in reserve I can intercept with it?

To my knowledge:

There is no requirement to be on the table. That assertion is no where in the rulebook.
It is merely a defacto "state of being" if you will, since most attack either require LOS or BTB or a certain range and thus must be on the table to meet those requirements.

But there is no sentence or paragraph in the book that says you must be on the table to attack.

Again, it is to my knowledge, i could be wrong but i would need a reference (page #) to be convinced otherwise.