Flyers moving at combat speed?

my opponent moved his dark talon 35" and called it combat speed, not cruising speed as it does not say moving past 18" results in it counting as having moved cruising speed(36") at the time i did not care as i was winning 7 to 2 in the last turn of the game, but i am wondering about this now the rule does seem to say that only 36" is cruising speed and not anywhere before that point, thoughts?

The Rule Book FAQ covers this. Your opponent was playing it right.

Heh, seems to be another rules derp by GW (hey guys, if you want to move another inch you half to fire less weapons)

but ok, thanks Mushkilla

You might want to re-read the FAQ there, Mush.

Quote :

Page 80 – Flyers, Zoom.
Change the fourth sentence to read “If a Flyer Zooms, it has a
Combat Speed of 18" and a Cruising Speed of up to 36".”

Emphasis on the "up to", meaning that anything between 18" and 36" is cruising speed, so the guy was playing it wrong.

Woops, I missred the question.

But flyers can always fire up to four weapons regardless. So what's the problem?

Correct. As far as I know the only rule that discriminates between combat and cruising speed is locked velocity.

Erebus wrote:

You might want to re-read the FAQ there, Mush.

Quote :

Page 80 – Flyers, Zoom.
Change the fourth sentence to read “If a Flyer Zooms, it has a
Combat Speed of 18" and a Cruising Speed of up to 36".”

Emphasis on the "up to", meaning that anything between 18" and 36" is cruising speed, so the guy was playing it wrong.

well it looks like i should look at FAQs too, thanks for the correction

Tiri Rana wrote:

Correct. As far as I know the only rule that discriminates between combat and cruising speed is locked velocity.

and another rules derp found on our part, we had been playing they fire 2 less weps when at cruising speed