Turrets and Biotechvore

Is a turret a trooper? No, its a token.

 

I disagree, the turret is a Deployable Weapon, rulebook pg 74.

The biotecvore plague will affect the turrets the same way it would affect mines, repeaters, crazykoalas, and any other kind of deployable

 

None of those things are troopers

 

Armed Turrets (and Mines, etc.) are not troopers, they're Deployable Weapons despite lacking that trait in the army app (but you still have to select the Jackboot Engineer there to get access to the Turrets' profiles in the Wepons Section, and as a bonus you get all of them there) thus not affected by the BTV Zone rule that explicitly targets Troopers.

So do have Mines, Repeaters, etc. and those were around in the old times of BTV as well, and those things weren't affected by the Zones back then.

 

Many players find this interaction silly, so TOs may want to FAQ this prior to a tournament.

Alternatively you can come up wild lore justifications why indeed deployables aren't affected by the plague...

 

The rulebook states what a trooper is; Page 7:
«Trooper. A game element with attributes belonging to the Army List of any player, able to contribute and spend orders, as well as declaring and receiving attacks.»

The only exception to the above is indicated in the following paragraph on the same page:
«Peripheral. A special category of Trooper that is unable to contribute or spend orders by itself [...].»

There is no mention in the entire rulebook of any other exception to the above, so positionable weapons are not classified as troops.


The ITS document, when indicating what is affected by the Biotechvore Plague Area, indicates «all troopers».

Therefore, if positionable weapons are not troops, they are not affected by something that indicates that it only affects troops.

 

But not a trooper.