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The Watchtower scenario and weapons teams; weapon teams, how do they work?
Topic Started: 7th January 2011 - 02:49 PM (432 Views)
Plague Lord Taint
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Can I put my unit of 19 stormvermin and 1 poison watermelon mortar weapon team inside of The Watchtower? I did some searches on a few forums and the skaven and rule book faqs and found no answers.
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Wepons teams are purchased with a unit, but are a individual unit on table. Buildings only permit one unit at a time, whatever size it may be.
The Buildings rule is in the BRB in the part about buildings (around pg 118 or so)
And the Weapons team being its own unit is in the Skaven book (thats around page 60 or so)

The nex question would be if Runners with a Warp Grinder happened to be in a building, would the Grinder die or would you just have to keep it next to the Watchtower
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DekoPuma
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So then, if you deploy the Stormvermin in the building, could you deploy the PWM within 3" of the building?
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Dalamar
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That would make the most sense, just try and put it out of LoS of the enemy.

Remember you can only deploy Core units in the watchtower during the deployment stage (though later you can swap them for anything else)
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You would have to keep 1 inch away and within 3 inches. A unit not "garrisoning" a building may not be within 1 inch
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hotwarplead
Jan 7 2011, 11:54 AM
You would have to keep 1 inch away and within 3 inches. A unit not "garrisoning" a building may not be within 1 inch

..And since the tower is in the center of the table, and the team is a separate unit, there is no way to place the weapon team both by its unit AND in the deployment zone.

To satisfy _all_ rules, you are left realizing you _cannot_ place a unit that has a weapon team in the tower.
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Jan 7 2011, 05:33 PM
[..And since the tower is in the center of the table, and the team is a separate unit, there is no way to place the weapon team both by its unit AND in the deployment zone.

To satisfy _all_ rules, you are left realizing you _cannot_ place a unit that has a weapon team in the tower.

So on a normal size gamezone/table with a normal sized watchtower, you could not.
That is not to say that it could not be done.
He did not state that it was a 4x8 or a GW watchtower.....

Then again, I would be without my books so thats just me being skavenish and twisting it for me
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Table size is almost completely meaningless.

The deployment zones are proscribed as 24 inches apart. A tower has a proscribed size as well. A tower of legal size on a legal table cannot be close enough to the deployment zone to allow for the possibility of both deploying the unit in the tower and its weapon team in the deployment zone.
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Jan 7 2011, 06:22 PM
......A tower of legal size ....

the BRB states nothing about a legal size for a watchtower or footprint. It even mentions something about using a large building(forget the exact wording)
As such IF you played with a large building and did not split it up (for some odd reason) then it would be able to be done.

New Questions on same topic:

If you run a unit of runners with a warpgrinder, could you place the marker on/under the watch tower (seeing as the marker counts as a unit for deployment per FAQ) and let it scatter out from the building?

If so: Would it require the runners to be less than 20 because of the weapons team?

How would it work if the watchtower was not garrisoned and a unit of runners came out via the warpgrinder with one or more of them being within 1 inch?

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hotwarplead
Jan 12 2011, 12:33 PM
Sleboda
Jan 7 2011, 06:22 PM
......A tower of legal size ....

the BRB states nothing about a legal size for a watchtower or footprint.

It does. 6 x 6.
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i stand corrected. Any idea on the Runners question seeing as it is a weapons team and watchtower question?
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