Deploying ICs in units...when and how?
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 4:30 pm
The 'Shrike Controversy" seems to have finally died over on some other forums. Since cooler heads prevail here on AoS, I thought it might be okay to bring this up again, maybe we can come to a resolution.
In BRB page 48, ICs joining and leaving units, we have "Alternatively an independent character may begin the game already with a unit, by being deployed in coherency with them."
This has been interpreted to mean that you must first deploy the unit on the table, then you deploy the IC in coherency with the unit and they are now joined. I believe this is wrong. I think so because of the following;
On the bottom of page 48 in the 'special rules' section, the last sentence is; "For example, if an independent character without the 'infiltrate' special rule joins a unit of infiltrators during deployment, the unit cannot infiltrate..."
If the IC can only join the unit after the unit has deployed on the table, this makes no sense. The unit of infiltrators can deploy by infiltrating after both armies have deployed, and an IC can only join them after they have deployed, but if the IC joins them after they have deployed by infiltrating, they cannot infiltrate.
I think the rule is really pretty simple. After you have your list, and as you are deploying the army on the table, you can join ICs to units and deploy them accordingly. So I can join an IC with a squad and deploy both in a dedicated transport. And if I join and IC with a unit of infiltrators and the IC does not have the infiltrate special rule, the unit must deploy without infiltrating (or go into reserve of course).
Thoughts?
In BRB page 48, ICs joining and leaving units, we have "Alternatively an independent character may begin the game already with a unit, by being deployed in coherency with them."
This has been interpreted to mean that you must first deploy the unit on the table, then you deploy the IC in coherency with the unit and they are now joined. I believe this is wrong. I think so because of the following;
On the bottom of page 48 in the 'special rules' section, the last sentence is; "For example, if an independent character without the 'infiltrate' special rule joins a unit of infiltrators during deployment, the unit cannot infiltrate..."
If the IC can only join the unit after the unit has deployed on the table, this makes no sense. The unit of infiltrators can deploy by infiltrating after both armies have deployed, and an IC can only join them after they have deployed, but if the IC joins them after they have deployed by infiltrating, they cannot infiltrate.
I think the rule is really pretty simple. After you have your list, and as you are deploying the army on the table, you can join ICs to units and deploy them accordingly. So I can join an IC with a squad and deploy both in a dedicated transport. And if I join and IC with a unit of infiltrators and the IC does not have the infiltrate special rule, the unit must deploy without infiltrating (or go into reserve of course).
Thoughts?