I was looking through the DE codex and reread the mandrakes' hidden deployment rule and I got an idea. Could an independent character join the unit before deployment and thus hide with the drakes?
The rules about independent characters were vague about this as they say that the character joins the unit during the deployment phase, so is this before or after the drakes hide?
This would have such cool application. Drakes would be much better in CC, your lord couldn't be shot at until you chose, and, the best I think, WWP.
Is this legal, or has anyone tried this?