Reserves and dedicated transports

[Denzark]

Can you reserve Rhino DTs, but the troops choice that 'owns' them starts on the table? Thinking of not giving away easy first blood when going second...

[Nabterayl]

Yes, absolutely. Page 78 and page 121, which contain the dedicated transport deployment rules, still allow dedicated transports to be deployed empty and separate from "their" unit.

[ElectricPaladin]

Though, tactically speaking, if you aren't up for dealing with the challenges of a playing mech and finding ways to protect those transports, why aren't you just playing a foot list?

[Nabterayl]

Well, depending on the placement of terrain and objectives, turn order, and enemy disposition, leaving them off the board can be a totally valid way to protect them.

[Tynskel]

Meh. Just one point. If you cannot recover from one point, the game was either a loss or at best a tie.

[Denzark]

I am finding it hard with Chaos Space Marines, to get enough boots on the ground at 1500pts. I don't like cultist hordes with a fearless HQ, I like traitor marines. I can't seem to hold more than 1 objective in any scenario and I'm seeing a lot of draws decided on second objs. I smash them all over the table and some half arsed jump denial unit line breakers me.

I am clearly hung up from my mech assault list in 5th where my berzerkers were awesome, to needing to run a more shooty shooty. So in terms of Game, whilst the entire game I will try and kill enemy scoring units whilst moving to objectives, turn 1 I want to maximise the chance of first blood - and keep an eye open for warlord etc. Tynskel I'm glad your cron air nob bikers is meaning you never need that 1 point, I really am.