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Was just thinking, does a Blood Lance from a BA librarian hit flyers automatically and give them a STR 8 AP1 hit? If so, need to get atleast one lib with jump pack into my list to counter flyers

I can allready hear it... Swoosh Swoosh... BZZZZZZZZZZZZT KABOOM!

You can only snap shot at flyers.
Anything that does not require a roll to hit, cannot snap shot.
So no.

So when drawing a 4D6 long line from the librarian you ignore flyers? Where does that read?

In the Shooting at fliers rules.

Only snap shots.

If you are not taking snap shots at a flyer you are breaking the rule about only snap shots.

masquerade81 wrote:So when drawing a 4D6 long line from the librarian you ignore flyers? Where does that read?

It's the same as with the Necron death ray. If you choose to have skyfire for a turn, you may attack a flyer with it, but as you are not making a snap shot, you cannot hit anything on the ground. Conversely if you are shooting at targets on the ground you have not made a snap shot, thus you are unable to hit the flyer as a weapon which doesn't use a ballistic skill to determine hits can never snap shot.

Lone Dragoon wrote:

masquerade81 wrote:So when drawing a 4D6 long line from the librarian you ignore flyers? Where does that read?

It's the same as with the Necron death ray. If you choose to have skyfire for a turn, you may attack a flyer with it, but as you are not making a snap shot, you cannot hit anything on the ground. Conversely if you are shooting at targets on the ground you have not made a snap shot, thus you are unable to hit the flyer as a weapon which doesn't use a ballistic skill to determine hits can never snap shot.

Actually, the deathray is a weapon that doesn't use BS... read Snap Shot rules, you can't fire it at flyers, ever.

Tactica wrote:

Lone Dragoon wrote:

masquerade81 wrote:So when drawing a 4D6 long line from the librarian you ignore flyers? Where does that read?

It's the same as with the Necron death ray. If you choose to have skyfire for a turn, you may attack a flyer with it, but as you are not making a snap shot, you cannot hit anything on the ground. Conversely if you are shooting at targets on the ground you have not made a snap shot, thus you are unable to hit the flyer as a weapon which doesn't use a ballistic skill to determine hits can never snap shot.

Actually, the deathray is a weapon that doesn't use BS... read Snap Shot rules, you can't fire it at flyers, ever.

However a Deathray on the Nightscythe can be fired with the Skyfire special rule, in which case it does not need to snap fire to hit a flyer, it snap fires to hit ground units.

Tactica wrote:

Lone Dragoon wrote:

masquerade81 wrote:So when drawing a 4D6 long line from the librarian you ignore flyers? Where does that read?

It's the same as with the Necron death ray. If you choose to have skyfire for a turn, you may attack a flyer with it, but as you are not making a snap shot, you cannot hit anything on the ground. Conversely if you are shooting at targets on the ground you have not made a snap shot, thus you are unable to hit the flyer as a weapon which doesn't use a ballistic skill to determine hits can never snap shot.

Actually, the deathray is a weapon that doesn't use BS... read Snap Shot rules, you can't fire it at flyers, ever.

Incorrect, you cannot use non-BS weapons when snap firing. As they have skyfire they dont need to snap fire.