The Scout rule gives your unit the option to be put in Reserve and Fast on its first activation.

If I choose to put the unit in Reserve, when would it benefit from Fast (if at all)? Is its first activation when it arrives from Reserve (must make a March Move, be deployed touching a table edge and 12" away from enemy models) or is its first activation the following Unit/Command Phase?

Thanks!

Morning Totengraber.

The scout rule is a useful beast - it allows a unit to be placed in reserve, as you've stated. The fast rule gives a unit the fast special ability during its first activation. Instead of gaining fast on its first turn, it may instead be put into reserve.

Reserve means the unit must spend its first activation march moving (double moving) onto the board, with its base touching the table edge.

So unfortunately, it does not gain that sweet extra 6'' movement onto the board.

However, the axis platoon upgrade "lightning war" does allow a unit in reserved to move 6'' when it comes in from reserved on any table edge.

Hope this helps answer your question - a friend of mine uses the hans in reserve with this platoon ability and it can prove very useful indeed.

to summerise -

scout rule lets you either have fast for your first turn or come in reserved.

there is a platoon option for the axis that lets you have both