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A buddy of mine brought this up (saying you are not allowed to per Raw) and I totally shut him down a few times because it sounded ludacris and because it seems to be a staple in so many other people's armies.

However, my question still stands - Can an assassin be taken in a drop pod? e.g. a Culexus coming in to potentially shut down a psychic deathstar?

I am now currently of the thought that you can't due to the fact that Assassin's must infiltrate.

Due to the shoddy wording of the GW FAQ on this matter, infiltrators MUST infiltrate, which means they deploy after the rest of the army and during that infiltration phase.

Since a drop pod is in reserve during the normal deployment phase and all units that are coming in via a drop pod must be placed in there at that time, is it even possible?

Maybe I'm missing something but hopefully someone can shine a bit more light on this.

Thanks!

Which FAQ are you referring to?

Infiltrators must Infiltrate if they are deployed normally, but may still be put into reserve - note how a unit with Infiltrate also gains the Outflank rule by default (Infiltrate rule, p167 or the rulebook).

Infiltration still takes place "during deployment", which is when the "combined reserves" rule requires. The fact that the transport will already be in reserves shouldn't matter to the process, and it's not actually a requirement to do both at the same time.

Note that it must be a non-dedicated Drop Pod for this to work.

 Quanar wrote:
Infiltrators must Infiltrate if they are deployed normally, but may still be put into reserve - note how a unit with Infiltrate also gains the Outflank rule by default (Infiltrate rule, p167 or the rulebook).

Infiltration still takes place "during deployment", which is when the "combined reserves" rule requires. The fact that the transport will already be in reserves shouldn't matter to the process, and it's not actually a requirement to do both at the same time.

Note that it must be a non-dedicated Drop Pod for this to work.

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