Nightspear and infiltrating unit discussion

Currently the answer appears to be get your local consensus. Mine is no otherwise I dig the idea of illic + incubi!

Trystis wrote:

They need to FAQ him. Currently he can infiltrate anywhere without range restriction. So he could infiltrate into base to base with the enemy and begin the game in CC. That definitely isn't intended.

He cant. There always has to be a 1" bubble around all models. The Assault phase is the only time where you are allowed past this imaginary 1" bubble. Therefore in deployment the closest he can get is 1" from something

SleepyPillow wrote:

shadowseercB wrote:

I seem to be stuck on stupid...
I just want to make sure before my next game. I can infiltrate Illic on the board with Incubi or even better Wraithblades?

Why dont you read page one and two where we already discussed this question?

100% strictly "read as written" answer: no
"read as intended" answer in reference of Shrikes entry in the SM FAQ : yes
best answer: ask the person you play with how you two should handle it.

Sorry, I read it but I had difficulty following the conversation, hence why I said, "stuck on stupid".

Brom wrote:

Currently the answer appears to be get your local consensus. Mine is no otherwise I dig the idea of illic + incubi!

Yeah thats what I thought. I say no too. If that were true I was gonna start kicking my self in the butt for not doing that all year with Karandaras.

It was waaaaay more iffy doing it with Karandras before as infiltrate was delivered as part of his exarch power and Codex Eldar said it couldn't pass to none Striking Scorpions, it was really odd reading of the rules that got us to the situation with Adepticon deciding to allow it.

I agree it is iffy, I would however say that if playing in a tournament you should check as many tournament FAQ packs are allowing this, hence my original suggestion of it on a tournament based website.

After reading page 38 Infiltrate and all of 39 IC Special Rules it makes sense. It seems more likely that you can do it rather than cant. The thing about that is it seems broke and rediculous and even more so with Illics special version. With that said I may do it.

I foresee this will be ruled out by FAQ, because, say infiltrating Karandras with a unit if 10 Wraithguard with d-scythes is extremely stupid and broken. This unit cant reasonable by expected to either assault, shoot down in less then 2-3 turns while it can pretty much devastate half the enemy army on itself.

Thats broken, like a helldrake broken.

Of course it does cost like a third of enemy army...

Consider what would happen if this was yes... Who wants an infiltrating rip tide thanks to shadowsun?!? Or a farsight bomb for that matter.

RAW says no and to be honest IMO the RAI is no as well

I agree with Massaen, just because Shrike has been FAQd a particular way doesn't mean all other characters with the infiltrate rule should use it the same way (common sense would suggest if they'd needed to FAQ it one way, they should have made it clear that was how it worked next time they used it...)

Massaen wrote:

Consider what would happen if this was yes... Who wants an infiltrating rip tide thanks to shadowsun?!? Or a farsight bomb for that matter.

Those tactics are highly encouraged all over the Tau Forums though. None of them have noticed your rules discrepancy.

Mushkilla wrote:

Massaen wrote:

Consider what would happen if this was yes... Who wants an infiltrating rip tide thanks to shadowsun?!? Or a farsight bomb for that matter.

Those tactics are highly encouraged all over the Tau Forums though. None of them have noticed your rules discrepancy.

Yeah, especially when you also take in account the fact that normally you cannot attach an Independent Character to a Monstrous Creature, buuuut since Riptide with drones counts as a unit...

I'm not worried about infiltrating riptides... and 10 Wraithguards with D-Scythes is probably overkill... 5 should make a mess of most things

Hmmm....

Wouldn't a round about way to do this trick be:

Deploy A unit containing Illic (sp?) 10 uber grots, urien and lady malys as normal.

Then right before scout moves, use maly's pre-cognisant rule to redeploy. Since the unit has already been deployed, the entire unit now has infiltrate from illic, and can now be deployed as wished?

That is if the argument is still that you cant deploy them because he has to be with the unit first.

tada!

big nasty toughness 5, str 6 (7) fearless unit behind the enemy lines that is immune to psychic powers on turn 1.

Game over.

Nope, the FAQ states that units redeployed by Malys' special rule cannot be placed outside the deployment zone.

Nice idea though.