Tyrannocyte Question

[draaen]

Quick Question on the tyrannocyte deep strike rules. I know that you can do a full null deploy if everything is in a tyrranocyte. However I also want to see if I can get a Mawloc or two into the list. Since the Mawloc would start in reserve would I need 125 points and one model on the table to allow him to deep strike? Or since those models in the tyrannocyte don't count towards the reserve limit can I just have him in deep strike or have a small unit like a lictor on the field to act as the one drop?

Just a little tired of my monsters always getting blown up before they can get close. At least with Tyrannocytes they can die close to an enemy! Except for like the one unit of warriors likely to hide out on the field so I can activate exploding 6s for shooting.

Thanks in advance.

[piersonsmuppet]

Probably a minority opinion; the Tyrannocyte rule only allows you to ignore them for the cap on # of reinforcement units and doesn’t give any permission to ignore the pts cap in GT books. So, while you can have 8/12 units in reserve with a Tcyte, you still need those 8 units to be <50% of your army’s pts.

If your opponents or TOs allow the Tcyte to ignore the pts limit, then you can null deploy as long as the non-tcyte and non-tcyte embarked units are less than 50% of units in your army and less than 50% of your army’s pts. If 4 tcytes & 4 embarked units are 1600 pts, you could reserve up to 8 other units that are up to 1600 pts.