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I was wondering what the total armor save penalty is on dark elf reaper bolt thrower's volley shots are?
The shots are strength 4, but then it cryptically says that models suffer a -2 armor save penalty. Is this in total, or do models hit suffer a total of -3? Note that it doesn't say armor piercing like most ranged weapons that lower armor saves beyond there strength.
They did not want to add "Armour Piercign" as then spells wihch affect AP weapons (at all or more strongly) would disadvantage it. Given this is normally to represent the difficulty of firing blackpowder weapons in a storm, a whacking great bow shouldn't suffer this.
So, as the book says - -2 penalty. It gives you the ENTIRE rule therefore you do not apply the strength modifier on top.
