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In the Tau Empire Codex a Pathfinder Devilfish has a beacon that allows deepstriking units to reroll the scatter dice if needed. During deepstriking only 1 Scatter Die is used. When they say Dice do they mean the additional 2 D6 scatter distance as well or just the actual "Scatter Die."

The "Scatter dice" is defined on page 5 of the rulebook as the die with the arrow and the target on it (GW uses the word "dice" in the rules when defining a singular die).


Since the term is defined I would say that the RAW only allows you to roll the Scatter die itself.


That said, I think the common way it is played (because of GW's strange use of the word "dice" to describe a "die") is that you can reroll all the dice involved in the Deep Striking process if you want.

I think ill just ask my opponent before every game to avoid conflict. Thanks

Yeah we just re-roll the entire roll when i do it with my tau. but remember the pathfinders fish has to have LOS to the DSer to get that re-roll.

Yak is right, page 5 is very clear on this. Scatter Dice is a type of die that is used in Warhammer and Warhammer 40K and only that particular Die may be rerolled in this situation.