Subterranean Assault

[retnab]

Quick question, if a Trygon arrives via Deep Strike, placing a hole marker as he arrives, can a model that arrives from reserves after it on the same turn use that hole? It says in the rules only one unit can use the hole a turn, but it also says wingless infantry only so the Trygon doesn't quite fit that rule.

[gigasnail]

no.

[retnab]

Darn. So best case scenario you have guys popping out of it turn 3, that's a bit of a shame.

[gigasnail]

yeah it's a great concept but like a lot of our rules, a bit lacking in execution and tabletop usefulness.

[infornography]

They took a rule that worked really well in imperial armour and turned into something almost completely useless in an attempt to not make it over powered. Just pretend the rule isn't there, the Trygon is still worth it's points without it and you won't find any practical use for such an unreliable power.

[retnab]

Yeah I was thinking it'd be a nice possible turn 2 use (since with Hive Commander giving you some infantry that can actually go through you're rolling 2+ to get on) but so much for that.

[Deleted]

Infornography is right, just pretend SA doesn't exist. If you want to speed up your reserves you want to look at either Hive Commander, Swarmlord or an ADL w/Comms Relay

[retnab]

It wasn't so much the speeding up I was looking at, since you basically need Hive Commander to get any of those infantry options out of the hole anyway, it was more suddenly having a ton of Devilgaunts or Deathspitter Warriors behind the enemy tanks. But I definitely see what you mean.

[coredump]

Using a Comm Relay with an ADL or Bastien means you can actually use the Tunnel a bit more reliably. Not sure if that is enough to make it worthwhile... but it should at least work now.

[rehkal]

Dec 6, 2012 5:31:41 GMT retnab said:

...it was more suddenly having a ton of Devilgaunts or Deathspitter Warriors behind the enemy tanks.

Pods. You want pods.