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Originally Posted by Mack_JB
But we have an edge case question for the peanut gallery. If the defender chooses nothing but SHVY for his reinforcements, how would that work during the die roll at the start of his proper turns? The rules state on a roll of 1, no reinforcements, 2-5 you get one unit, and 6 you get two. Since a SHVY counts as two units ... do you have to roll a 6 to get the unit on the board?
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Yes. The original version of the OSB1 used points (roll 2-5 = 6 points, roll 6 = 12 points). In order to get a 2AU (12 point) unit, you need a roll of 6. There are no provisions for "banking" your roll to save up and buy bigger units (although that might be an interesting house rule). You could further extend that to use the "more expensive" SHVY that takes partial damage (see 13.07 for the 3AU SHVY). Since there's no way to get it normally, "banking" roll results would be the only way to allow it.
By the way, this works the other way, too. a roll of 2-5 would allow you to get two LTs, LGEVs, etc since they are only .5AU units.