Sorry if this has a easy answer, When disembarking from a drop-pod do you measure your disembarkation move from the main hull of the pod or from the Doors (opened)????
Just want to be sure before a tournament
Thanks for your time
Sorry if this has a easy answer, When disembarking from a drop-pod do you measure your disembarkation move from the main hull of the pod or from the Doors (opened)????
Just want to be sure before a tournament
Thanks for your time
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There hae been long and frequent discussions about this, it all depends on how you interpret the rules.
If you consider the open doors to be decorative then measure from the main footprint (pentagon shape)
If you consider the doors to be part of the hull then measure from them.
The general consensus is the pentagon base ignoring the doors, but it is not clear, the latest C:SM may have cleared it up but I do not recall.
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Simply put, this is one for the tournament organiser alone to answer, as it will vary from tourny to tourny.
Long as everyone is told which way it's swinging on the day (hurr) then nobody can actually complain.
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It is from the hull. you can open doors on the tanks, too, and you do not measure from the doors, you always measure from the hull entry point.
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Also, can you clamber up and down the doors or do you have to walk around them if you're using it for cover?
No, because they're extraneous bits that you ignore. Plus, a model can't get cover from itself.
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Sorry yes you can't get cover from yourself, but if we ignore doors, then if you can only see the door of whatever vehicle I have you can't then shoot at it since it is "decoration" or "extraneous bits that you ignore" therefore not part of the model for shooting purposes.
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Ah, yes, but the Lucius-pattern drop pod - Forgeworld - explicitly states that it grants a 4+ cover save to anything touching it, which includes toeing one of the doors.
I agree that you should measure from the hull for movement purposes, but to play devil's advocate, there are drop pod variants where the doors count as part of the model for rules purposes.
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The doors do not count as they are blown off as it lands, hence why they are not treated as terrain. You measure from the hull of the drop pod and not it's doors. When a drop pod explodes you also measure from the hull.
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