My questions:

Do weapon platforms ignore the Escalation rules and can be deployed anyway, or will they only be able to deploy if a Trojan + carriage is also taken?

As a weapon platform is "immobile", does it give the opponent half VPs the same as a Marine drop pod does?

Answers from Warwick Kinrade:

Weapons platforms. Do not give up half vp's for being immobile, that doesn't seem fair, the enemy should have to do something to earn his points. As for escalating, immobile stuff that isn't deployed needs a tow, otherwise how can it get on the table?

interestig...

- contradicts the RaW on VPs (crossref: drop pods)
- Escalation/towing... my gut instinct was "he's just trying to sell more tow vehicles!", but there's also the game-balance aspect to consider. and if opponents should have to do something to earn the VPs, where's the sense in awarding full VPs just because you didnt bring a towing vehicle to a game that ended up being an Escalation? or is that supposed to be another RaW contradiction?



~ Tim

Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. The Drop Pod VP rule was stupid anyway, GW should never have brought that in.

Spack wrote:Yeah, it's a bit of a mess. The Drop Pod VP rule was stupid anyway, GW should never have brought that in.

well... it was already in the rulebook - what they should have done was admitted that they made a mistake, and done something about it: "yep, we never thought of Immobile Vehicles when we wrote the VPs chart, so it should work like this instead:...".

that would have fixed the problem and allowed FW to answer w/RAIntended without looking like they were contradicting precedent.

oh well.

does leave us in a sticky spot, though: if we are using RaW for VPs then you get them for Drop Pods but your opponent doesnt get them for your immobile guns.

Kudos to FW for giving the answer they felt was right rather than simply spitting out RaW, though.

~ Tim