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If an Zooming Ork Blitza-Bommer's uses the Skreamin' Descent rule and a 3 or 4 is rolled on 2D6, the Zogging 'eck! effect is applied.

Skreamin' Descent - "During the Blitz Bommer's movement phase, it may drop one boom bomb. To do so, stop your Bommer 1" in front of it's target, roll 2d6 and consult the table below."

Zogging 'eck! -"The pilot manages to pull up, clipping his target. No bomb is dropped. Instead the bommer and its target each suffer a single S9, AP 2 hit."

My question 1 - Is there anything in the Snap Shot or Hard to Hit rules (or any other rules I might be forgetting to apply) that would prevent the Bommer from suffering the hit?

Include in your consideration the new BRB update faq entry...

Q: How do maelstroms, novas and beams – or indeed any weapon
that doesn’t need to roll To Hit or hits automatically – interact with
Zooming Flyers and Swooping Flying Monstrous Creatures? (p13)
A: Only Snap Shots can hit Zooming Flyers and Swooping
Flying Monstrous Creatures. Therefore, any attacks that use
blast markers, templates, create a line of/area of effect or
otherwise don’t roll to hit cannot target them. This includes
weapons such as the Necron Doom Scythe’s death ray or the
Deathstrike missile of the Imperial Guard, and psychic
powers that follow the rule for maelstroms, beams, and
novas.

My question 2 - If the hit applies, would you resolve the armor penetration as S9 + D6 vs the front armor of 10? if not, why?

I am mostly interested in RAW opinions to both, but willing to hear it all. Thank you

Any chance you can post the Skreamin Descent rule?

Just based on what you posted
1. No
2. Yes.

It's from the White Dwarf issue with the Ork and SM flyers.

I don't want to step on any IP toes so I'll quote the first part of it. The rest isn't relevant to the question.

Skreamin' Descent - During the Blitz Bommer's movement phase, it may drop one boom bomb. To do so, stop your Bommer 1" in front of it's target, roll 2d6 and consult the table below."

I quoted the 3-4 entry from the table earlier

Edited OP to include Skreamin' Descent rule and a poll.

1. No
2. Yes

1: No, it's there in black and white stating that you take a S9 hit, and as we know Codex (or in this case WD) > Rulebook.
2: Yes

1: No, Codex>Rulebook

2: Yes

No Codex is not greater then rule book ...
Specific > General ... saves confusion later

It actually is. The rule on page 7 states that specific > general AND codex>rulebook where there is a conflict.

Fragile wrote:
It actually is. The rule on page 7 states that specific > general AND codex>rulebook where there is a conflict.

.... god grief that is a counter productive rule. It explains why all the FAQs tell you to ignore what it says in the codex and use the rule book.