Rules question: Auspex Scan vs Ethereal Interception

[dubHammer]

Hi,

 

I'll be facing a Necron player in a few weeks, and he hinted strongly that he would take a unit of Deathmarks.

 

When I looked up these guys, I see they have a special rule called "Ethereal Interception"

 

It reads:"When an enemy unit is set up (other than during deployment or when disembarking) you can immediately set up a unit of Deathmarks that was set up in a hyperspace oubliette on the battlefield, anywhere more than 9" away from enemy models and within 12" of the enemy unit that has just been set up. You can then make a shooting attack with this unit as if it were your Shooting phase, but this attack must target the enemy unit that was just set up."

 

My question is if I bring in something from reserve like the Inceptor squad, will I be able to use Auspex Scan in order to fire at the Deathmarks before they can shoot my unit?

 

I descussed this with some of my friends, and we came to the conclution that Auspex scan happends first due to how it's written "Your unit can immediately shoot at the unit".

 

Still we aren't really sure if that's right or I'm just looking at it through power armor lenses.

[Frater Cornelius]

I think of it like MTG sequencing, in case you are familiar with that card game. You make an action, which triggers an action from your opponent. The opponent's action triggers a response action on your part. This means you act, then the opponent.

 

But this is MTG logic. There are no indicators that this works in 40k...

[Prot]

I honestly think you'd be able to get your Auspex Scan off.

 

The reason is I think the Strategum is an 'interrupt' of the normal process. But so is his, however it's a turn based mechanism.

 

Your action: plop down Inceptors

His action: plop down Deathmarks

Your action: Auspex Scan

His Action: Shoot what's left.

 

And then there's just the approach of common sense.... just simply meaning that something starts to appear out of thin air, the auspex warns the Inceptors who are already there, they are basically reacting to the appearance of models.

 

Think about it this way... the Auspex scan would have no use in this situation otherwise which really doesn't make sense.

Edited August 24, 2017 by Prot

[Frater Cornelius]

Note that Auspex says 'immediately' when it comes to shooting, whereas Deathmarks do not say immediately shoot, only when setting up. Hence Auspex is more 'immediate' I guess.