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Some thing I recently thought about and where I'm note sure if I understand the rules correctly.

As far as I understand the core rules the sequence when a transport is destroyed is:
1. the models inside disembark, so are set up outside
2. the transport is removed, the disembarking models are NOT subject to the transports deadly demise
3. the disembarked models roll if they suffer mortal wounds for disembarking
4. they count as having made a normal move

Now what I'm unsure of: as the models are outside of a transport and on the board from step 1 onwards, do abilities triggering on death/after movement work on them?

a specific examples:
Cyclops demolition charge from the IG list has a deadly demise ability itself + the ability "Demolition charges" which triggers "Each time this model or an enemy unit ends a move, if this model is within 3'' of one or more enemy units [...]
=> does that mean the Cyclops would trigger its own deadly demise if it is destroyed from the disembarking process?
=> would the charges trigger if it disembarkes into 3'' of an enemy unit, as it counts as having made a normal move?

Just because a unit 'counts as having made a Normal move' doesn't mean that they actually made one.

Also, given that the Cyclops takes up seven transport spaces and has four wounds, it's highly unlikely to ever die from disembarking from a destroyed transport. BUT, in the event that it did, yes, its own Deadly Demise would trigger.

 Pyroalchi wrote:
Now what I'm unsure of: as the models are outside of a transport and on the board from step 1 onwards, do abilities triggering on death/after movement work on them?

a specific examples:
Cyclops demolition charge from the IG list has a deadly demise ability itself + the ability "Demolition charges" which triggers "Each time this model or an enemy unit ends a move, if this model is within 3'' of one or more enemy units [...]
=> does that mean the Cyclops would trigger its own deadly demise if it is destroyed from the disembarking process?
=> would the charges trigger if it disembarkes into 3'' of an enemy unit, as it counts as having made a normal move?

The answer is no, the Cyclops's Demolition Charges rules cannot be triggered when the model disembarks from a Transport.

Rules Commentary wrote:Count as Having Made a Normal Move: Reserves units always count as having made a Normal move in the turn they are set up on the battlefield. This is simply to clarify that they cannot move further in this phase but have not Remained Stationary; such units have not made a Normal move, however, so their arrival cannot trigger Stratagems or abilities that are used after a unit makes a Normal move.

Similarly, a unit that disembarks from a Transport that made a Normal move this phase also counts as having made a Normal move, but has not made a Normal move, so such a unit’s arrival cannot trigger Stratagems or abilities that are used after a unit makes a Normal move (see Embarked Units and Reserves).