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power armour in landraiders clarification


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Brothers i am at a loss here i want to know why u cant field power armoured marines in a land raider yet there is the space for them allocated 18 power armoured marines in crusader yet in the new codex u cant deploy them in it at the start of the game . so my question is why is this or am i just reading the new codex incorrectly .

please help

because in the new codex it doesn't give u the option for dedicated transport options for hq choice only the honour guard or command squad and it only says rhino , razorback or drop pod and land raiders aint in the dedicated transport part of the army list .Am i reading this wrong

No, you're not reading it wrong. It's like that for a reason. You can't buy landraiders for normal power armored squads. You couldn't do that even with the previous codex. LR's are meant for the veterans, the elite soldiers of an army. Not every rank-amd-file grunt. (and 17 landraiders, in a single FOC chart, would be way too much, anyways! ) Only certain armies have ever had the ability to field so many at once (DW). And even those were still all elites/veterans of the army as a whole, not basic rank-and-file grunts. (sadly, even DW nolonger have that ability)

 

Now, you can buy a landraider as a heavy support choice, and then start a tactical squad inside it. But you can't just 'buy' them one, as dedicated, to free up the heavy support slots.

First, please use periods. Secondly, you can field any unit in the Land Raider, as long as they all fit, but the Land Raider will take up a heavy support slot. The Dedicated transports just don't take up slots.

 

EDIT: Sorry, Ezekial beat me to it.

Only certain armies have ever had the ability to field so many at once (DW). And even those were still all elites/veterans of the army as a whole, not basic rank-and-file grunts. (sadly, even DW nolonger have that ability)

 

Actually, from what I've been reading, most DA players still use the DA codex, so then the DW can still 'technically' use the LR as a dedicated transport. (4th ed codex I believe (I don't have it infront of me atm, sorry if I am mistaken)). Because once you have Belial, and the DW as troops, then you have 9 slots to take 9 Land Raiders with...as messed up as that may be...

Sadly, no.. we can't take more than 3. Our DW squads have no options for buying dedicated LR's for them. Theirs must come from HS slots. Heck, for that matter, we don't have any dedicated LR options. (so yet another thing smurfs and their kin get over us) C: SM get to top out at a possible 5 max. 2 dedicated (one normal termie squad and one assault termie squad) and 3 HS choices.

 

(Helps having the codex handy when posting ;D )

Only current Army that can take a LR as dedicated transport right now is the BTs. They can give their Crusader squads an LRC as a dedicated transport, ergo the fun competition that occasionally arises amongst BT players as to who can fit the most LRCs in a given list -_-

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