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honestly the most effective non hands on approach ive seen is my friend running 2 farseers with mind war and just warring him/her to death. When combined, I have seen multi wound models like abbadon get mind war jumped, and killed in one turn.

GBF, nemesis force weapons were around the same time the rulebook had rules for specifically weapons that cause 'instant death'. Its not like a case of a codex being out before there was a rulebook statement to clarify the rules. NFW are simply different and hold their own ruling. SAG is a perfect analogy, it doesnt cause 'instant death' as this specific phrase is nowhere in the gun description. By your idea you could argue 'remove from play' is the same as 'instant death' as a model is technically losing all its wounds at once. It simply isnt so, as the specific wording is all that counts as Shane has been putting it down. RAW isnt RAI no matter which way you slice it...