Q: "Encircle the prey" stratagem turn 1?

[trashcan01]

Did you guys and gals catch the 1CP stratagem "Encircle the prey" where you choose Fly or Burrower unit and move it off the board at the end of turn, to bring it back the next one?

 
Flyrant doing crazy stuff suddenly looks great, as he gets to do his thing with no fear of retaliating strike, basically for 2 opponent turns (1-3 or 2-4).
You can even do it while he's engaged in melee! Pop the charge mortal wound strat, fight it out and zoom out of the battlefield!

Q: I was wondering, as it says it can't be done on the turn the model was set up, I'm guessing it can't be done on turn 1. Or, setting up pre-game doesn't count as turn 1?

[kazetanade]

Setting up pregame doesn't count for T1. Go nuts.

[jesses]

Yeah, this strat is the main reason I'm still considering a melee Flyrant over a Walkrant. T1 charge, mess a unit up, then whoops off the table.

[nintendofilo]

I have a small doubt with the Strat, it specifies "Burrowers" as the unit that can go and come back from the ground, Raveners and Ripper Swarms have Burrowers but Trygon and Mawloc have "Burrower" singular... makes me feel they cant use this, but that is a bit odd, what do you guys think?

[trashcan01]

Unless there is an ability or strat that specifies plural "BURROWERS" only, I'd treat it as typo and eligible for Mawlock/Trygon as well.
The mistake probably came because there is one Trygon/Mawlock, and units of Raveners/Rippers are mutliple models, hence the difference.

[arsonfire]

Mar 18, 2022 19:13:42 GMT nintendofilo said:

I have a small doubt with the Strat, it specifies "Burrowers" as the unit that can go and come back from the ground, Raveners and Ripper Swarms have Burrowers but Trygon and Mawloc have "Burrower" singular... makes me feel they cant use this, but that is a bit odd, what do you guys think?

The keyword rules have you covered, they say that singular/plural forms of a keyword are considered the same.

[jesses]

Was just about to say this but arson covered it. Last sentence of the first paragraph under Keywords in the Core Rule Book:

The pluralisation (or not) of keywords does not affect which units the rule in question applies to.