(Answered) Rules Question, Alpha Strike: Commander's Edition

[Burzmali]

p32, Mobile versus Immobile
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"If a unit begins the movement phase unable to move on its own, whether its immobile, shutdown, or being transported, carried or towed, the unit does not receive a movement this turn."

How does this affect units onboard a dropship? They are being transported, but disembark on their own movement phase not their transport's as is the case for infantry in APCs.

[nckestrel]

If they are able to move this movement phase, then they are mobile.

[Burzmali]

Thanks. For towed units, would they then use their towing unit's movement phase to deploy any units they may be carrying? I.e. a Patton SB towing a Gun Trailer (Stronghold) with a squad of BA inside.

[nckestrel]

The towed unit can't dismount the units it is carrying while it is towed, nor the turn it is released from being towed.
The turn where it starts the movement phase not being towed, it can have a movement that is purely dismounting the units inside, and it would count as a movement just for that.

[Burzmali]

Are there rules for starting and stopping towing? I don't see any in the Commander's Edition.

[nckestrel]

They would use the external cargo picking up and dropping off rules.