Dan 1314 wrote:
Well everyone from the Euros are far to busy slapping each other to ask this, so I will post.
We saw a situation where an old landa had two BM, and got shot at by a drop pod.
The shot obviously caused a BM, and so broke the landa.
As fate would have it, the land was on its last wound.
So began the debate.
Dose the drop pod cause a wound to the landa as being a unit within 15cm of a newly broken unit?
Well let's get rid of the obvious - the debate here is about a broken unit, taking a wound as it can't run away, and if a deathwind drop pod, or it's crew count for that.
(For the record, there was a lot of good arguments each way. I felt that drop pod are unique, they do not exist as units. The transported troops are still in board at the time off the deathstrike, so this should be treated like two units; i.e a war engine and an on board transport. The transporting unit not then impacting.
This then turns on the nature of the drop pod being or not being a unit)
The tournament couldn't decide, and it was decided by dice.
Lawyers of epic, your thoughts?
Firstly do you mean deathwind not deathstrike.
A formation becoming broken does not automatically take a wound so why would the landa in the situation above.
As you stated the drop pod is not a unit so unless there are other units nearby that would cause damage to landa when it broke (see 3.2.4) it takes no extra damage.
Troops in the Drop Pod do not dismount until after the deathwind attacks are made so are not there on the table when the landa broke.
from Drop Pod notes section.
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After the Drop Pod marker lands its Deathwind attacks all enemy units within 15cms of the centre of the Drop Pod. Each enemy formation attacked receives a blast marker for coming under fire and an extra blast marker for each casualty. Then any troops carried in the Drop Pod must disembark (this can trigger overwatch as normal) completely within 15cms of the centre of the Drop Pod, in coherency and outside an enemy zone of control. The Drop Pod is not a unit but a marker, it does not count for formation coherency purposes and cannot be used for claiming crossfire or to hold or dispute objectives, it also does not have a zone of control.