Retaliation Cadre

So with this new formation all of your models can be held in reserve and all deep strike automagically on turn 2 (and get +1 BS on the turn they do to boot).

My question is, if you play this formation alone, do you auto lose turn 1 since you would have nothing on the board until turn 2?

yep.  there's other formations that work the same way in the other codexes, and they're all meant to be taken with something else that starts on the table turn 1.

Yep. Just like deathwing.

Bullocks.

That's what I said when they dropped the DA codex.

That said, Firebase Support + Retaliation seems like it could work.