Drop run rules?

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**Kap'n Krump**

So, I recently finished an ork blasta bommer from IA:8. Part of its rules state that it can carry 20 stormboyz, who can deploy from the aircraft using the 'drop run' rules.

Thing is, 'drop run' rules are never referenced again in IA:8. Maybe they were a universal special rule in 5th? I'm not sure.

At any rate, anyone have any idea what drop run rules are? If not, I'd assume using the rules for disembarking from a vendetta or storm raven would be reasonable substitution.

**CrownAxe**

Drop Run was not a rule from 5ed. It should be somewhere in IA:8

**Kommissar Kel**

It isn't.

I think it might have been in an errata; but that is no longer available(nor is the model). The flyers were not even in the IA apoc books.

I do not have a legitimate copy of IA 8, my pdf is missing the Apoc rules appendices. It could possibly be found there.

**col_impact**

[Imperial Armour Apocalypse II page 104]

Spoiler:

**Kap'n Krump**

Kommissar Kel wrote:
It isn't.

I think it might have been in an errata; but that is no longer available(nor is the model). The flyers were not even in the IA apoc books.

I do not have a legitimate copy of IA 8, my pdf is missing the Apoc rules appendices. It could possibly be found there.

I also do not have a legitimate copy of IA8, but it lets me word search for 'drop run' and it only ever shows up in the description of ork bommers.

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col_impact wrote:
[Imperial Armour Apocalypse II page 104]

Spoiler:

Flying Transports
Models transported in a flyer may disembark only if they are jump infanty in what is called a 'drop run'. This is worked out in the same way as a bombing run, but instead of dropping bombs, any number of transported jump units my Deep Strike choosing a target point anywhere along the bombing corridor (much in the same way as a bomb), and then rolling for scatter. Normally infantry may only embark or disembark from a flyer using the Hover Mode rule (see page 94 of the Apocalypse rulebook).

Ok, thanks! It's odd that it's not anywhere in IA:8, that I can find.

To double check - if it is worked out in the same way as a bombing run, that means they scatter 1D6, not 2D6, correct?

**CrownAxe**

No it says you do it via deep strike do it's 2d6

**doctortom**

CrownAxe wrote:
No it says you do it via deep strike do it's 2d6

From the quote that's provided, it's worked out like a bombing run, except you drop people. If it's 1d6 scatter for the bombing run, then when you work the scatter for the drop run out there's a good argument that, by treating it like a bombing run, it should also be 1d6.scatter.