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Ravenwing and outflanking


BoonKin

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Heaps of thanks everyone for your help (especially Cactus for your perfect quote)!

 

Preparing reserves

When deploying their armies, players may choose not to deploy one or more of the units in their army and instead leave them in reserve.

Units placed in reserve are not deployed. Yet...

 

Rolling for reserves

... Once all the units have been rolled for, the player picks any one of the units arriving and deploys it, moving it onto the table as described later. Then he picks another unit and deploys it, and so on until all arriving units are on the table.

A unit that arrives from reserve is deployed in that turn, at the moment it is placed on the table.

 

Arriving from Reserve

... Each model's move is measured from the edge of the battlefield, as if they had been positioned just off the board in the previous turn and moved as normal.

Unit coherency

... once a unit has finished moving, the models in it must form an imaginary chain where the distance between one model and the next is no more than 2".

The models within a unit that arrives from reserve are not bound by the rules for unit coherency until they have finished moving.

 

Outflank

... When an outflanking unit arrives from reserve the controlling player rolls a dice... Models move onto the table as described for other reserves, above.

So the correct sequence is:

1. Decline to deploy the unit and instead place it in reserve. Declare if the unit will outflank or deep strike.

2. The unit later arrives from reserve.

3. If the unit is outflanking, roll a dice to determine which of the short table edges it may arrive from.

4. The unit is deployed and may move on from the table edge, as if the models had already been there just off the table.

5. When the unit has finished moving the rules for unit coherency kick in.

 

Ravenwing Attack Squadron

... The squadron may include one attack bike... If the squadron is upgraded in size to include six bikes then it may include a land speeder...

FAQs

Q: Can a Ravenwing attack squadron with a Landspeeder in it, which has been held in reserve, use the Outflank special rule? (p27)

A: No.

Combat squads

... The decision to split the unit into combat squads, as well as which models go into each combat squad, must be made when the unit is deployed.

Ravenwing combat squads

Ravenwing bike squadrons at full strength may fight either as a single unit of six bikes or break down into two three-man combat squads.

 

Much like combat squads, the squadron's attack bike and land speeder are purchased together with the squadron and then deployed at the same time as the squadron's bikes, but from then on, they always operate as completely independent units of one model.

When purchased from the army list, the bikes, attack bike and land speeder are one unit. The attack bike and land speeder do not become individual units until they are deployed. If the unit does not include a land speeder it may elect to outflank.

 

In the case of a Ravenwing Attack Squadron with attack bike we have:

1. Decline to deploy the Ravenwing Attack Squadron and instead place it in reserve, declaring that the unit will outflank.

2. The unit later arrives from reserve.

3. Roll a dice to determine which of the short table edges it may arrive from.

4. The unit is deployed and may move on from the table edge, as if the models had already been there just off the table. From this point on treat the attack bike as an individual unit of one model.

5. After moving, the attack bike does not have to be anywhere near the bikes because they are different units.

 

So the entire Ravenwing Attack Squadron arrives from reserve as the result of a single dice roll. To do otherwise could result in them deploying at different times, which Codex: Dark Angels expressly forbids. Likewise, if you make separate rolls to outflank the bikes and attack bike you are deploying them at different times. Once you've determined which table edge the squadron can arrive from you deploy the models. The attack bike arrives from the same table edge as the bikes, but is not required to move on from the same position.

 

You see, my mate didn't quite understand that arriving from outflanking was another method of deployment (as underlined above) as quoted from the rulebook. This was confirmed by some other experienced gamers in the club. Well in the end he apologized for his oversight so it was all good then ;)

 

Again, heaps of thanks guys!

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