Probably a newbish question....

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**Nydhog**

I just bought the GW dice box (the 27 dice set with 25 regular dice, and a scatter die) and am confused about on of my dice. It says "2, 4, 6, 8, 10," and then has an exclamation point inside of an explosion. What in the world is this die for?

**chromedog**

It's used for WHFB. It's the 'artillery' die used for warmachine number of shots and stuff.

It isn't used in 40k at all.

**Mattlov**

It is a heavy weapons die for WHFB.

**Nydhog**

chromedog wrote:It's used for WHFB. It's the 'artillery' die used for warmachine number of shots and stuff.

It isn't used in 40k at all.

Thank ye thank ye. Had No idea and was really confused.

**Lorek**

chromedog wrote:It isn't used in 40k at all anymore.

Fixed your typo.

**willydstyle**

In 2nd ed, when you fired a blast weapon, you rolled to hit using your ballistic skill, but if you missed, then you rolled the scatter dice and the "artillery dice" (you used it for other things too...). When you got a "hit" and a "misfire" (the exclamation point with explody stuff) together fun things happened.

**Squig_herder**

Anymore?

You mean second had it? I have 2 second edition dexs can you point it out to me?

Or is it earlier?

**willydstyle**

Looks like we were posting simultaneously. Read my post

I believe the Shokk Attack Gun used the Artillery Die to determine its Strength value as well.

**Gavin Thorne**

The numbers indicate the number of inches to scatter in the direction the arrow points.

Template weapons like missile launchers used it when they missed the to-hit roll in 2nd. It had some other uses (like the SAG) but they were specialized and more rare.

Edit: it wouldn't be described in the 'dexes (except for the exceptions...) but you could find it detailed in the 40K rules book included in the 2nd ed set. The Wargear book (same set) also had some descriptions of it's use.

**Da Boss**

Kustom Kombi Weapons used it as well.