Calisson wrote:I'd like to nominate Ambushers, p.79 and Reerves, p.149, as examples of units which do not deploy during deployment phase.Daeron wrote:The 7th edition book is also the only example of a comparable rule in Warhammer
I don't see your point with these two. I was referring to the hidden rule. But note that for Ambushers, I don't think a character without the rule is permitted to deploy with an Ambusher unit. Or is that wrong?
As for the pg149 Reserves rule, note that for every character it is rolled whether or not they come up as reserve. The roll decides.
Calisson wrote:Disagree: "A hidden Assassin is not placed on the table during deployment" is explicit.Daeron wrote:it doesn't negate that he is deployed (no explicit notion of it!
If deployment is not about setting up units on the table, please explain where it is defined and quote the sentences telling what it means.
First line of the hidden rule "An Assassin can choose to deploy "hidden" within another friendly DE infantry unit". The word deployment is never countered in the same rule ever. It is a bizarre deployment, granted, but a deployment RAW.
Calisson wrote:Not RAW.Daeron wrote:The point is that if he deploys in (or nominates) a unit, it has to be a unit on the table just like any other character.
The only requirement is infantry (not harpies).Assuming like you do that GW wanted to rule out Harpies and Shades, please explain why they did exclude Harpies but did not exclude Shades.Daeron wrote:GW may have slip ups, but they can still be right... sometimes
Please consider in your answer that no character may join flyers anyway.
That one is actually simple. The rule is a special rule and defines which units are selectable for the Assassin's deployment. If it wouldn't explicitly exclude Harpies, RAW it would be permitted to include Harpies because AB > BRB. Hence it had to be specifically noted.
Why not the Shades? Your very example of scenarios. It's even highlighted in the BRB rules pg 79 "It should be noted that deployment special rules are not permitted in some scenarios. Where this is the case the unit can still be used, but it must instead deploy in the same manner as the rest of the army".
In case Shades deploy like a regular unit, they become a viable target for the Assassin.
Calisson wrote:Please, read the rules p.79 about scouting: "Scouts are set up...".Daeron wrote:The Assassin doesn't have the scouting special rule, and that should be the only indication needed. Saying that he can still scout ...RAI he isn't meant to scout
Hidden assassins are not set up during deployement. Therefore you cannot claim that they did scout, even hidden in a shade unit.
Let's take the line then. Pg 79, BRB:
"Scouts are set up after all other non-Scout units from both armies have been deployed."
First sentence of "Hidden":
"An Assassin can choose to deplouy 'hidden' ..."
Sorry for reiterating this point. You really have me pour over the rules again and again Calisson. But I still find nothing wrong with how I constructed my arguments (well.. grammar and spelling aside).
Dalamar wrote:I deployed my shades 8" outside deployment zone to stop enemy vanguard
Then I moved them back into deployment zone.
Next turn I reveal an assassin in that unit of shades. He's now deployed in my deployment zone.
Bear in mind the assassin was at no point "scouted" as he wasn't on the table and models not on the table don't participate in the game.
Was that move legal?.
Hehe! For what it's worth, you had me smile at your creativity. Alas, it wouldn't be a legal trick according to the interpretation from the rules I proposed. The reason is that the Assassin has to be deployed in a unit (infantry if hidden, but not Harpies) before the Shades are deployed. The choice to put them in the Shades is never offered unless the Shades would already be deployed when the characters have to deploy, for example if they deployed as a regular unit.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the depth of the arguments and the manner in which they are presented. I'm just.. convinced.. of the other point of view I suppose.