Wednesday 15 August 2012

Assaulting from a transport, rule changes for 6th

Assaulting from a transport has never been so difficult.  There have been a number of quite large changes which affect how this works.

Firstly, you can only now disembark if the transport moves a maximum of 6 inches in the movement phase. You can only assault if the vehicle is an assault vehicle.

Other vehicles previously could be used to launch assaults if they stayed stationary, but this rule has gone. Also gone is the ability to move full speed and drop off the troop capacity.  Now, no matter how fast your transport may be, be it a slow Rhino or a supersonic Stormraven, you can only move 6 inches to drop your troops off.

This means you will need to be virtually on top of the enemy the turn before, in order to do this.  Flyers will need to go into hover mode to drop off their troops, because otherwise they are moving too fast to do this.

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