Guys,
After a great tournament I took away a couple of questions. None of which impacted on any games I played, but I always like how new opponents make you think.
Well the first point is that I was playing the much hated air list, so please avoid the temptation to decide on the basis of hatred for that
The first thing, and Tim advised on this at the time, was how BTS works for a unit that can be off board.
In my case, terminators within a transport.
I had previously assumed that the BTS needed to be killed, (with the exception of the necron special rule),
however I had chatted with Steve Cole about having an Ork list where the planes were the BTS, and he had advised then that this wouldn't work (as off board counts as dead for BTS - wise man that Mr cole).
Tim similarly advised that this is the case for Terminators. So its important not to carry them over for turn four
Which makes sense as its pretty harsh for the opponent to have no chance of even shooting at the BTS.
It did however get me thinking of quite a few games where eldar have had a SC amongst aspects off board and failed to activate on turn 3 (even with re-roll). Assuming the same rule applies, thats a big kick in the behind.
Ok the more exciting one was AA suppression.
If we have a large unit with AA and non AA in this case it was leman russ with a hydra in the middle), then suppressing the AA can be difficult (effectively every unit with a gun and range can be suppressed, so it goes to the back tank first). - I had handed out four blast markers, ensuring that the hydra was suppressed - it being the fourth unit from the back as I faced them. But then when it came to flying away, my exit move put over units further away, and effectively unsepressed the hydra at a point of the exit.
I read a few rules in context of this - AA can fire anytime as long as the plane flys over their range (so even where only one AA was in range for the flight in, the three that weren't in range can shoot if the unit flys out over their range). So the fact that the plane started in a place where it was safe from the suppression, ended in a safe place and spent 90% of its flight in a place where the AA was suppressed, means he-haw, it still gets shot. - Assume others interpret in same way?
Just found it really interesting as it makes you think of suppression in a 360 degree angle.