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Hey all! Reading the rulebook right now and was curious if when a flyer arrives from reserve can it arrive anywhere on the field akin to deep striking (minus the scatter dice?) Not seeing the clarification in the rulebook...
Appreciate the help!

Arriving from reserves is the same for everyone, you move in from the edge of your table edge

Ah appreciate it thanks!

There are FW Flierers that can appear from reserve regularly as described above or deepstrike, but those are clearly an exception with rules applicable only to them.

Do you deploy the flyer fully on te table edge then move it on from the base?

Sorry for the thread high - jack

You place the flyers base against the table edge and move from there. Your flyer base front edge cannot end up further from the table edge it arrived from than its movement range.

 Stephanius wrote:
You place the flyers base against the table edge and move from there. Your flyer base front edge cannot end up further from the table edge it arrived from than its movement range.

Not quite. As a vehicle you use the hull, which means the forward most part of the hull must be lined up with the edge of the board.

Hull must be entirely off the table, then the hull must be entirely on the table at the end of the move.

In the case of the Necron doom scythe, and the Night Scythe transport? My friend says they have deep strike. If so do they scatter as normal when coming in then?

Murdius Maximus wrote:
In the case of the Necron doom scythe, and the Night Scythe transport? My friend says they have deep strike. If so do they scatter as normal when coming in then?

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3180057a_Necrons_v1.4_APRIL13.pdf

Page 50/95 – Doom Scythe, Special Rules.
Remove the Deep Strike special rule.

Page 51/91 – Night Scythe, Special Rules.
Remove the Deep Strike special rule.

Ah! I downloaded the faq onto my phone but some pages didn't make it through that's why I couldn't find it lol! Thanks!

 Happyjew wrote:

 Stephanius wrote:
You place the flyers base against the table edge and move from there. Your flyer base front edge cannot end up further from the table edge it arrived from than its movement range.

Not quite. As a vehicle you use the hull, which means the forward most part of the hull must be lined up with the edge of the board.

I only found references to the flier model for shooting. For movement I've only ever seen the base used, not the model. Can you point me at the source for your statement please?

Page 71, Vehicles & Measuring Distances which is slightly amended on page 80, under Flyers and Measuring.


Once it is actually on the table, using the base for movement purposes does not affect things too much, and as such could be used without people raising a stink.

Thank you.

That section instructs us to measure to and from the hull, with the preface that most vehicles do not have a base. This can be read as an explanation as to why we measure from the base, or as a condition.

Since the flyer has a base, the "has no base" condition is not met and we use the base for measuring.

That appears as both logical and practical to me, since it is less awkward than finding the outline of the flier on the table accurately. Of course, I understand that for a huge flier without a base in the box measuring from the hull is more practical.

Walker bases are not helpful as example for or against base measuring here, considering the "assault like infantry" bits for measuring.

Explanation that most vehicles don't have a base is not permission to use the base for measuring. Do you use skimmer bases to measure?

No, but like walkers the skimmer base being irrelevant is handled in their unit type section.

Rereading page 80 Vehicles-Flyers in the original English version makes me shut up though
It states explicitly to measure from the hull. Fair enough, something learned.

The only flier I have used so far is the hell turkey, for which there is about one inch difference between snout and base edge. That explains why I didn't bump into this during play.