Strength D on Gargantuan Creatures

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**Valkyrie**

P91 of the Apocalypse Rulebook states that if Gargantuan Creatures are "affected by an attack that wold normally kill a model automatically" they instead suffer D3 wounds.
If a Gargantuan Creature was to be targeted with a Destroyer weapon, would they suffer D3 wounds, or just one, as P96 states that if the target is immune to Instant Death, then they suffer one wound as normal?

If they only suffer one wound, this means that a failed Characteristic Test would cause more damage than a direct hit from a Volcano Cannon, which completly defies logic.

**Orkeosaurus**

Are gargantuan creatures immune to Instant Death? (Which is to say, actually immune to the rule completely and not merely having a special rule that downgrades it to d3 wounds.)

I thought I read that Gargantuan Creatures suffered d3 wounds specifically from StrD weapons, but I may be mistaken.

**Valkyrie**

Yes, on closer inspection it does say that Gargantuan Creatures are immune to Instant Death, so Destroyer would only cause one wound as normal.

**Orkeosaurus**

At least it automatically wounds.

Actually, when most Gargantuan Creatures are T8 or 9, the automatic wounding is kind of nice.

**Valkyrie**

Orkeosaurus wrote:At least it automatically wounds.

Actually, when most Gargantuan Creatures are T8 or 9, the automatic wounding is kind of nice.

Good point. Actually if you give a Warlord Laser Blasters and Turbo Lasers, you can cause 10 automatic wounds per turn, just enough to take down any Gargantuan Creature, unless you get some really unlucky scatter rolls.

**the_trooper**

You are also presuming it fails invulnerable saves.