Landing Gear Question

[killme304]

Played a BA player that was claiming that when a drop pod scatters over terrain, it reduces scatter even if it would have scattered way past the building and the site it would land is otherwise legal. Is that how we resolve for Spores too? If so I've been doing it wrong this whole time.

[demoric]

No drop pods only reduce the distance to avoid the terrain. So if it's initial after scatter was a legal choice then he couldn't just choose a different spot. (baring some special BA rule).

[killme304]

That's what I thought. Thank you.

[coredump]

Yep, it is pretty clear once you read the DP entry in the BA codex. Inertial Guidance only triggers if it lands on top of another unit or impassable terrain, not if it scatters 'over' it.

And remember, this is only *IMPASSABLE* terrain. Drop pods will land in regular terrain (diff and/or dang) If it does land in terrain, the Pod treats it as Dangerous; any passengers that disembark into terrain also treat it as dangerous.