[Bala Azago]

transports can only carry one infantry unit, so if you split up a tactical squad into two 5 man squads can you still carry both squads in it still? Could you carry a 10 man tactical squad and 5 man squad of legion of the damned in a land raider crusader? Its one infanrty and one elite so i would think so but i'm unsure. thanks for any help!

 

[The Boz]

If it fits the transport capacity, and no banned gear(termie armor, ogryns, etc) applies, then I don't see why not...

 

[Baron Spikey]

No you can't, you can only have 1 unit in a transport unless the transport's description explicitly says otherwise. Independent Characters can join units in order to embark on the same transport but that's pretty much the limit for '2' units in 1 transport.

 

[The Boz]

Hurmph. Didn't know that. Nothing like that ever came up, but I always assumed you can fill a transport to capacity...
What transports can fit multiple units?

 

[Uilleam]

Page 66 of the Rulebook: "A transport may carry a single infantry unit.."

Page 23 Blood Angels Codex: " The decision to split the unit into combat squads... must be made when the unit is deployed.

If you decide to split a unit into combat squads, then each combat squad is treated as a seperate unit for all game purposes from that point."

So no. The only exception is a drop pod apparently. :victory:

 

[Baron Spikey]

Hurmph. Didn't know that. Nothing like that ever came up, but I always assumed you can fill a transport to capacity...
What transports can fit multiple units?

Mainly stuff in Apocalypse, but the Storm Raven can transport a unit and a dreadnought which is the only transport in standard 40k that I can think of.

 

[Bala Azago]

thanks for the help! what force organizational slot does a transport take up if you don't take it as a dedicated transport?

 

[Stormbrow II]

It doesn't use up any slots normally but it counts as the same slot for Dawn of War Deployment as its parent unit i.e. you buy a Rhino for a Tactical squad as a single Troops choice in the FOC.

You can deploy the unit in the transport as your 2 Troops choices in a Dawn of War mission.

 

[Baron Spikey]

What ever choice you select it from, if it's chosen from the Elites section then it's an Elite, from the Heavy Support section means it's a Heavy Support choice etc.

 

[Forty Three]

from what you wrote, it seems you're confusing two ways of classifying units. 'Infantry' is a unit type together with 'cavalry', 'beasts', 'Monstrous Creatures', 'jetbikes', and so on. It has nothing to do with which FOC slot it's in. Troops, elites, HQ, fast attack, and HS are FOC types. So for example you can have troop infantry, like tactical squads, or elite infantry, like terminators, and on the other hand you can have bike troops, as in space marine bikers, or fast attack cavalry, such as rough riders.


In any case, a transport can never take more than one unit at a time, and if you split a tactical squad into combat squads they are counted as 2 different units when they are deployed.

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[Flame80010]

thanks for the help! what force organizational slot does a transport take up if you don't take it as a dedicated transport?

unless its actualy listed under a section in the codex (IE a land raider) transports may only be taken as dedicated (Rhinos and Razorbacks, Etc)

 

[jaws900]

1 unit only. Otherwise Cussaders would be even more bad ass. You can still attach IC's to them tho.

 

[Winterous]

So no. The only exception is a drop pod apparently. :victory:

That's not an exception, the unit splits after it lands
And yeah, the Storm Raven is unique, the only Transport that can transport multiple units.

Now we just need a Transport that transports Transports...

 

[The Boz]

Thunderhawk?

 

[Winterous]

Thunderhawk?

Not a standard 40k unit >_>

 

[The Boz]

Ah, danget...
Land Raider Raider? Banechimera?