Question from a game this week. A TAG was taken down, but not destroyed. Enemy Unit A can see the front half of the TAG. The pilot then tries to leave the TAG when it's owner uses their next order on the pilot. The rules state clearly that you use the pilot profile, and, as we read it, the TAG is not the activating unit, the pilot is. So if the player can place the pilot in base with the TAG, but not in LOF of Unit A (or any other emeny unit), does Unit get to ARO against the pilot because they can draw LOF to the front of the TAG? (i.e. does the pilot have to clamber out of the TAG, or do they just 'appear' wherever the controlling player wants to place them?)
No. The pilot can dismount in the back and be completely blocked by the TAG itself (which never activates). Therefore the other player can't ARO against it.
This Special Skill allows the user to receive Orders from its Order Pool despite being Unconscious. These Orders can only be used to Dismount the Pilot (see General Movement rules, Move), and use the Pilot's Troop Profile.
so does this mean that if the manned tag takes enough damage in a single order to go from healthy to a dead state, then the pilot can’t leave the tag and is dead?
1. You won't have any unconscious TAG to spend an order on to dismount the Pilot because the TAG is removed from the table when Dead. 2. The Pilot doesn't qualify for the Dead state, so it is not Dead if the TAG is removed from the table when the Pilot is mounted.
There are none ;) Because if the pilot is inside, the pilot is just removed from the table and since the pilot doesn't count for any extra points it has no run-on effects when it comes to Victory Points. All that's left to consider is "kill specialist" missions, and that is to say the pilot never enters a state where it counts as killed (and it can never not be deployed, because that's the natural state for it if the TAG survives). That is to say, you simply don't count it and fully ignore the pilot.
