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Originally Posted by Dan296  yea seriously. if you deepstrike then you cant move, so that means that (since skyleap happens in the moving phase, thus is a movement) then you cant deepstrike then skyleap. i would ask a redshirt about this. if you can DS then skyleap, wow. SUPA CHEESE! |
Asking redshirts won't get you anywhere. There have been several cases of people calling Roolzboyz and getting conflicting responses - some say it can't be done, other's say it was the designer's intent for it to work!
This tactic (coined as "Rubber Hawking") has been argued back and forth on Warseer.
I'm of the opinion that Rubber Hawking (deep strike, skyleap) is a perfectly
legal tactic. I'm not necessarily
happy with it being legal, but I'm willing to accept that it
can be done.
I've made a strong argument on Warseer and I'll post it here.
OK, the other thread was locked by the Warseer Inquisition, and we were directed over here.
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1. At no point does it mention in the Skyleap description that Skyleap is done instead of moving. It says that the player may elect to remove a unit with Skyleap from the table in its movement phase, placing it in reserve.
2. The argument has been put forth that once the Swooping Hawks [henceforth: Hawks] have Deep Striked (Deep Struck?) the Hawks' movement phase is over. Upon closer look, Deep Striking occurs at the beginning of the turn and not in the movement phase. It can therefore be ruled that the Hawks still have a movement phase.
3. Deep Strike rules state that a model may not move or assault and counts as having moved for the purposes of shooting. What one must realise, however, is that Skyleap is not an instead of moving action, it is an in the movement phase action.
We can therefore conclude that Rubber Hawking, whilst not particularly fun or sporting, is a legal manouvre. I'm not defending the Rubber Hawk technique because I intend on using it, rather, I'm against using it, but I am defending it because it is the right thing to do, rather than whinge and claim that something shouldn't be.
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