The more interesting question is: Which armies actually have units with the Scout ability which can take a fast vehicle as a dedicated transport?

Scout bikes can turbo-boost (except when prohibited by their codex) so moving flat out would be just as normal.

 

The more interesting question is: Which armies actually have units with the Scout ability which can take a fast vehicle as a dedicated transport?

I was about to say Striking Scorpions, but then I remembered they have infiltrate, not scouts.

There's nothing in the game standard that can, but I think it might be possible using a SC.


*flicks through various codices*
Ok, as far as I know there's only two armies who HAVE dedicated transports which are fast skimmers, DE and Eldar.
Neither have any units with scouts that can take one.

So the only possible way is mixing armies, say, taking Creed in an Eldar army.

 

Yes, you can move 24" as a "scout move" with a fast skimmer - there isn't anything stopping it, as it's a normal move.

Which vehicle is that on though? I can't think of many fast skimmers that can be taken as dedicated transports for units with a scouting unit.

[Edit: Solkan ninja'd me on the question there! should learn to type faster ]

If you're talking about a LS storm, they have scouts as part of their rule anyway, so you can still use it's scout move, but the storm is not a dedicated transport.

Hope that helps!

 

As far as I know, no Scouting unit has a Fast Skimmer as a dedicated transport.


However, Valkyries are Fast and Scouts and though not dedicated, I don't see anything that says a transport loses its own Scouts ability when hauling a unit that does not have it. And even if you can argue that it does, it could still pull off a full 24" scout move if empty.

just remember in all cases you have tpo keep your distance from the enemy. *more than* 12" if out of LOS of the enemy, 8more than* 18" if in sight.

 

just remember in all cases you have tpo keep your distance from the enemy. *more than* 12" if out of LOS of the enemy, 8more than* 18" if in sight.

These are the rules for Infiltrating Gal.

For Scout you must remain 12" away from enemies.

 

Whoops. For some reason I thought they used the same limitation.

In any regard, more than 12" away from the enemy, no matter how fast your scouty machine can go. 'Course, you can still cover that gap wioth your normal move on the first turn

 

I think the only way to get a scouting fast skimmer is a valk

 

Land Speeder Storm too.
That might well be it though.

 

I never really looked twice at the storm, it just seemed to rate a "Meh" followed by a page flip.

 

Tau perhaps.

Pathfinders and their devilfish.

In the previous edition, the infiltrate ability wasn't conferred to the 'fish, but now?

 

Infiltrate still isn't transferred (except in regards to granting outflank), but Scouts is.

However, Devilfish aren't Fast. Tau skimmers (except piranhas) are less 'low-altitude fliers' and more 'hovercraft'

 

Pathfinders do have Scouts though, not Infiltrate which would make them even more useless.