Originally Posted by
Duke
Drop pods, and other dedicated transports, do not get to use the Decent of Angels special rule.
The reason has nothing to do with Jump Packs... The portion of the DoA entry that references jump pack is the fluff portion and we can't base ruling off fluff.
Drop Pods and Land Raiders can't use DoA simply because they are the unit that is deep striking, not the embarked assault squad. Because the unit deepstriking doesn't have the rule they can't use it, even though the embarked unit does. Now if the assault marines put on jump packs they now have the DOA rule and could use it (Or any unit that puts on a jump pack as per the jump pack rules.)
Duke