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Would I be right in saying that anything with Vulnerable to Blast suffer 2 wounds for every 4+ rolled for your Breath of Chaos?

It seems there could be two ways of arguing it.

1) Breath of Chaos is a template weapon as written in the rules, hence every unsaved wound it causes makes 2 wounds against a Vulnerable to Blast target.

2) Breath of Chaos specifically tells you that you roll 4+ you cause 1 wound. Does this special wording for how it wounds things override the fact its a template weapon.

Aramoro

If the Breath of Codex says that you take excatly one wound, then Codex overrides Rulebook.
Althought if it says that you take a wound from it, I assume people could argue that it is counted as two in case of VtB. Including me

I really wish people would say what codex they are talking about. It makes things faster for me to check

Anyway, Breath of Chaos says you take one wound. It does not say EXACTLY one wound. Thus, VtB says "You took one wound from a Template Weapon? Take 2 Instead".

+1 to above: All it states is you suffer a wound ona 4+ which ignores armour saves. VtB then kicks in when you allocate wounds after making saves (well, just invulnerable if you've got one...) and doubles any unsaved wound.

The term "wound" and "unsaved wound" are clearly seperate steps in the wounding process.

Page 76 - Main Rulebook, bottom rightt corner of the page -

Some units are especially vulnerable to blast weapons and template weapons. If the unit is a vehicle, then each hit counts as two hits. If it is not a vehicle, each unsaved wound is doubled to two wounds.

Not really too many different ways to take that.