Master of Ordnance

Hey guys, been going through the IG codex, and im pretty excited. I have always wanted to do a tank army, and man does the new book have vehicles. One of the things i came across was the master of ordnance that you can take in your command squad. Being that i want an armored company, i thought that it would be cool to add him to the command squad so that they can do something useful other than hide out. The command squad also has the ability to take a chimera. So here is what im wondering. Because the orbital bombardment of the master is counted as a normal shooting attack, can he use the ability while he is in a chimera? I looked through the rules and cannot find a reason that he cannot. I also noted that the chimera entry does not say its open topped if the hatch is open.. is that a change, or is it in the main rulebook?

I agree, they are all good, but cost must be cut in order to get more armor! Are there still senarios that make you leave vehicles off the table and bring them in as reserves?

You can leave anything in any scenario in reserve. Also the master of ordnance has to remain stationary to fire his orbital strike. so as long as the chimera is stationary it is fine. if you have LoS then you can subtract the BS of the master from the scatter too.

Ah, i missed the bit about him being stationary. Thanks man.