40k Rules Lawyering.

So, while sitting here, I figured I would make a mention of a tactic I have read a bit about in one or two places online, and give a comment on it.

So, let's say that you are playing a Blood Angel army, and in that army you have a 10 man assault squad inside of a Rhino. That Rhino tank shocks forward 18 inches into a squad of melta vet guardsmen and is death or gloried. Which penetrates, and explodes the vehicle. Note that the explosion result is the only one that matters in this case, and is the one we are using.

According to the rules, almost verbatim here, the survivors inside of the vehicle are "PLACED" on the table, nowhere does it say deployed. Units deployed from a Rhino that were say... wrecked, would be unable to assault. However, nowhere in the explosion results does it say deployed, instead it says placed, which is a different word that indicates the marines inside did not deploy, and thus are able to assault if they are not pinned or broken.

Personally, I think that the specific wording of the situation means that yes, they are allowed to assault while if they had used the word deployed, they would be unable to do so. Anyone care to toss in their 2 cents?