DA Deathwing Assault

[Tynskel]

I think that it is important to note that the Deathwing assault decision occurs before reserves decision, which is why it becomes 'must'

[rle68]

it amazes me at times there is a new dex the obvious is missed more often then not... codex trumps rule book page 44 DAC

there is no ambiguity there.. units entirely composed of models that have this special rule and have terminator armor CAN choose to make a deathwing assault.. it doesnt say you must use deathwing it doesnt say you cant it says you can.. you have a choice.

the other issue again which is dex vs rulebook...immediately after choosing warlord traits, tell your opp which units are making a deathwing assault.. This is indeed prior to deployment and if you choose to use an army that consists of entiely deathwing assault capable models then you may have 100% make a deathwing assault...

However.. the deathwing assault does not bypass the at end of turn 1 if you have 0 models on the table you auto lose rule.. so you would have to have them come in on turn 1...

so lets wrap up...

1. you may have an army that entirely arrives on turn 1 in direct contravention to the rulebooks 50% rule..
2. you may have an army that uses deathwing assault and those numbers do not count towards your 50% rule as they are deducted from your army prior to deployment.. that again assumes you have other models in the army that does not have DWA..At which point you would have to deploy 50% of those models

is it really that complicated?