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I aim plasma weapon at nearby enemy A. It scatters and hits enemy unit B behind enemy A. Do the troops of enemy unit B get a 4+ cover save for being behind enemy? Could they also 'go to ground'? Nothing in the codex states that they would NOT get a cover save, but the sequence for blast templates does not say specifically that they would get the cover save for being obscured by troops.

Thanks....

Yes, they get a cover save. Draw LOS from shooter to where the blast marker lands, is there intervening cover for 50% of the unit? If yes, they get a cover save.

What the Don said, with the exception of guess weapons, where cover it drawn from the center of the blast.

Blast weapons and template weapons are two different types of weapons.

You should really be more succinct when asking a question about either, because template weapons ignore cover saves (for instance).


In your example (against a blast weapon), yes you'd check to see if the unit hit by the blast weapon was "in cover" in relation to the firing model and if so they'd get a cover save and could indeed go to ground if they wanted.