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Or does that just mean that when you take one as a dedicated transport, it fills up a heavy slot?
Secondly, could I purchase a Land Raider for some terminators, then give it to a unit of death company?

Or does that just mean that when you take one as a dedicated transport, it fills up a heavy slot?

If it is the heavy support section you can take it as a heavy support choice, if taken as dedicated transport(if it even can be*) it would become the same type as the unit taking it but not taking a slot(so for termies it becomes elite).

Secondly, could I purchase a Land Raider for some terminators, then give it to a unit of death company?

You could but they would have to board it on your first turn as they can't start the game in another units dedicated transport.





*I don't have the BA codex so not sure what if anything can take land raiders as DT.

Both of these questions should be in the codex and rule book. Dakka is not a sub for the book. YMTC is more for unclear question that GW has chosen not to address.

 jason1977 wrote:
Both of these questions should be in the codex and rule book. Dakka is not a sub for the book. YMTC is more for unclear question that GW has chosen not to address.

They are not really addressed in the books, more of a logical conclusion from what is read in the books.
YMDC is both for debating vague/unknown situations as much as it is to answer standard "how do you do this" questions.

From the mod posts:

"YMTC - How YOU Play the Game of 40k, a series of polls dedicated to finding out how players actually *play* some of the trickier situations in the 40k rules."

TheAvengingKnee covered the answers though.

You can take Land Raider as Heavy support choices, embarking whoever you want.
Or you can purchase them for Units with Dedicated Transport (Land Raider) as an Option. In that case, only that Unit can embark, and they do not use a Heavy Support Slot.

 jason1977 wrote:
Both of these questions should be in the codex and rule book. Dakka is not a sub for the book. YMTC is more for unclear question that GW has chosen not to address.

The point is they're not.

 BlackTalos wrote:

You can take Land Raider as Heavy support choices, embarking whoever you want.
Or you can purchase them for Units with Dedicated Transport (Land Raider) as an Option. In that case, only that Unit can embark, and they do not use a Heavy Support Slot.

Not entirely true.

If you purchase the Land Raider as a Dedicated Transport, only the unit who's Dedicated Transport it is, can start the game embarked (but they don't have to). Once that Land Raider is on the board, any infantry model from the same faction (or Battle Brothers) can embark on that Land Raider.

natpri771 wrote:

 jason1977 wrote:
Both of these questions should be in the codex and rule book. Dakka is not a sub for the book. YMTC is more for unclear question that GW has chosen not to address.

The point is they're not.

No. They are. You just have to actually read the book to find it.

 Hansisaf wrote:

 BlackTalos wrote:

You can take Land Raider as Heavy support choices, embarking whoever you want.
Or you can purchase them for Units with Dedicated Transport (Land Raider) as an Option. In that case, only that Unit can embark, and they do not use a Heavy Support Slot.

Not entirely true.

If you purchase the Land Raider as a Dedicated Transport, only the unit who's Dedicated Transport it is, can start the game embarked (but they don't have to). Once that Land Raider is on the board, any infantry model from the same faction (or Battle Brothers) can embark on that Land Raider.

Indeed, my point only applies in term of deployment options.
Both methods can indeed start empty, with any Unit moving into them on Turn 1.

As the question was more on which slot they belong to, it was the long answer for:
Either, but not both.

This is actually a pretty good question, because the Codex is easily misleading.

If you take a Land Raider to fill a Heavy Support slot, it is considered to have Battlefield Role "Heavy Support" and ANY unit that is able to embark can start the game inside the Land Raider.

If you take a Land Raider as a Dedicated Transport choice for a unit of Assault Terminators it is considered to have the Battlefield Role "Elites" (because it was bought for an Elites unit) and ONLY the Terminators and any attached ICs (because ICs count as a part of the unit for all rules purposes) can start the game inside the Land Raider.

In essence, there are TWO Land Raiders in the Codex... the Heavy Support version and the Dedicated Transport version. They are each treated slightly differently.

You can deploy either with NO embarked units and then just embark ANY eligible unit after the game has started on your first turn.