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Caestus zooming and ramming


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For what it's worth, its 40k entry in IAv2SE says that it can. However, this book pre-dates the most recent HH book with the CAestus datasheet.

 

Pretty sure it states in its rules that It cannot.

 

Got a reference for that? Only I can't see it in the HH:LACAL book. All you have to do is declare that it's going to making a ram attack at the start of the Movement phase. There is no longer any comment on which flight mode is used.

No, it can't. Page 84 of 40k Rulebook - Zooming Flyers cannot Tank Shock or Ram. It would have to be in Hover mode.

Those are the basic Flyer rules. The Caestus is an exception to that by virtue of it having the Tank vehicle type.

 

Also, as mentioned above, it can do it in 40k so why not 30k?

The Flyer rules specifically call out the inability to Tank Shock or Ram, which only vehicles with the Tank type have. Why mention it otherwise? Having the Tank type added to the Flyer type does not grant permission to Ram.

 

But after looking at Imperial Armour Volume 2 Second Edition (which was released in 2013) it specifically allows it when Zooming.

 

So as you said, it can in 40k so why not in 30k?

Because the 30k rules don't give it that exception. Simple!

 

Plenty of models for 30k have rules in 40k and they are different in little ways every time. This is the same.

 

Maybe pilots got more suicidal in 40k!

 

As someone rightly pointed out - don't do it at less than 18"!

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