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This seems clear to me, but I have been wrong, and there is some resistance in my current group. This is my interpretation:
If I set up a Sanctus using the blips system in GSC, he is still set up during the movement phase (mine or my opponents).
I am then legal in using the "A Perfect Ambush" stratagem, at a cost of zero CP (but it is used that turn) to shoot as if it were my shooting phase.

I know if I deepstrike him he gets it, I guess I am not sure if the blip set-up still qualifies him (it reads like it does) or if I have missed an FAQ somewhere.

edwardmyst wrote:
This seems clear to me, but I have been wrong, and there is some resistance in my current group. This is my interpretation:
If I set up a Sanctus using the blips system in GSC, he is still set up during the movement phase (mine or my opponents).
I am then legal in using the "A Perfect Ambush" stratagem, at a cost of zero CP (but it is used that turn) to shoot as if it were my shooting phase.

I know if I deepstrike him he gets it, I guess I am not sure if the blip set-up still qualifies him (it reads like it does) or if I have missed an FAQ somewhere.

Codex: Genestealer Cults Page 111 wrote:Use this Stratagem in the Movement phase, immediately after you set up an INFANTRY or BIKER unit from your army that has the Cult Ambush ability on the battlefield.[...]

Codex: Genestealer Cults Page 79 wrote:[...]Each time you reveal an ambush marker, select one unit from your army that you set up in ambush, then set up one model from that unit within 1" of that ambush marker. Then remove that marker before setting up the rest of that model’s unit wholly within 6" of the first model, wholly within your deployment zone and more than 9" from any enemy models (any models that cannot be placed are destroyed).[...]

Emphasis mine. "A Perfect Ambush" can be used whenever you set up a unit, regardless of the reason why it was set up.

Thanks BCB. That was my logic as well, but nice to get confirmation from someone who has a better consensus of the million different things needed now for 40k.

edwardmyst wrote:
Thanks BCB. That was my logic as well, but nice to get confirmation from someone who has a better consensus of the million different things needed now for 40k.

I feel ya. For what it's worth, A Perfect Ambush does indeed have errata. You can no longer use it after you disembark.

 BaconCatBug wrote:

edwardmyst wrote:
Thanks BCB. That was my logic as well, but nice to get confirmation from someone who has a better consensus of the million different things needed now for 40k.

I feel ya. For what it's worth, A Perfect Ambush does indeed have errata. You can no longer use it after you disembark.

Still fine to use from blips though right?

 Nitro Zeus wrote:

 BaconCatBug wrote:

edwardmyst wrote:
Thanks BCB. That was my logic as well, but nice to get confirmation from someone who has a better consensus of the million different things needed now for 40k.

I feel ya. For what it's worth, A Perfect Ambush does indeed have errata. You can no longer use it after you disembark.

Still fine to use from blips though right?

Yes. It works when a unit is set up, it doesn't matter how it's set up.