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Must I decide which unit goes in which transport ahead of the game, when writing my army list? Or am I allowed to see what my opponent's army is made of before I allocate units to transports, thereby making it a deployment decision?

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-Guardsman- wrote:
Must I decide which unit goes in which transport ahead of the game, when writing my army list? Or am I allowed to see what my opponent's army is made of before I allocate units to transports, thereby making it a deployment decision?

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You declare during deployment what units a transport is holding, if any.

It happens in deployment. Remember, in 8th there is no such thing as dedicated transports anymore, there is no tie list-wise between a transport and any particular unit.

 Peregrine wrote:
It happens in deployment. Remember, in 8th there is no such thing as dedicated transports anymore, there is no tie list-wise between a transport and any particular unit.

To be precise, there is such a thing as a dedicated transport but it means something different this edition.

In 8e it is simply a battlefield role for a unit (which you cannot have more of in a detachment than the total of other units, and which isn't constrained by the rule of 3 when that rule is in use).

In previous editions it referred to a transport that was tied to a particular unit during list construction, and that is indeed no longer a thing.

Thanks a lot!

 Stux wrote:
In previous editions it referred to a transport that was tied to a particular unit during list construction, and that is indeed no longer a thing.

All the way up to and including not even being able to transport the units in your army.

So you can take 3 units of Intercessors and 3 Rhinos, even though the Intercessors cant ride in Rhinos.

A legal detachment is a Terminator Captain, 3 Predators, and 4 Razorbacks. Now we have about three units that can't be transported at all!