New pox walker placement

[Hellmound]

I got trouble with the rule which allow you to had pox walker to your units. Be it with or without the stratagem, nothing is said about where I have to place the new pox walkers.

Can I place them in line to reach quickly my ennemy ?

Before ennemy shooting :

pox cultist                              ennemy

pox cultist

pox cultist

pox cultist

pox cultist

pox cultist

After shooting :

pox pox pox pox pox pox pox ennemy

pox

pox

pox

pox

pox

 

As long as their are at 2ps from another pox, I don't see why I couldn't do such a thing. Still I find this irrealistic, unfairplay and unbalanced . . .

Did I forgot a rule who forbid such a thing ?

[Panzer]

Wow good find.

At least RAW one could definitely do something like that and it's probably one of the most cheesy things one could do in the game.

[Aothaine]

Wow good find.

At least RAW one could definitely do something like that and it's probably one of the most cheesy things one could do in the game.

 

And you should always do it in ITC. Especially against the other rule abusers. ^_^

[Hellmound]

Don't ITC have a fairplay prize ?

I don't think one should do this unless against another jerk/rule abuser. My opponents are strugling against a 100+ pox unit, if I used this rule abuse to get closer faster, I'd end up without opponents to play against me.

 

 

In the same state of mind, you can make 2 pox with 1 kill. You will need 2 units of pox walker.

Use the stratagem on a pox unit, charge with another pox unit a target at less than 7ps from the unit you used the stratagem.

[Vilicate]

Read the main rulebook FAQ - you can only place them within 2" of a model that started the phase in play.  So if they kill models over multiple phases, then you can chain them out, but otherwise not really.

 

Q: Some rules allow me to add models to a unit during the

battle (e.g. the Poxwalker’s Curse of the Walking Pox ability).

Where are those models set up?

A: Unless otherwise stated, these new models are placed

anywhere that is more than 1" from any enemy model

and still within unit coherency of a model in its own unit

that was itself on the battlefield at the start of the phase

in which the new model was created. Note that if you

cannot set up a new model on the battlefield because

there is no room, it is simply not set up.

Edited March 5, 2018 by Vilicate

[Prot]

Yea, this is the way I’ve always played it. Essentially it lets you creep on your opponent each phase that they grow. It makes opponents really think twice about chucking random Bolter shot ps into Cultists or whatever.

[bozo69pd]

This is normal and not new. Look at the Necron start collecting set from 7th edition. It is just rare to gain so many pox walkers in 1 round of shooting or combat to zombify your way across the table.