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this came up in a local apoc game where i took DH melta orbital strikes to fill up a few hundred points i needed for the army. the melta torpedo is technically melta and ordnance, so...

melta lets you roll an extra d6 and add it to the normal 1d6 for armor penetration...
ordnance lets you roll 2d6 for armor penetration and choose the highest for your armor penetration...

so does adding the two rules together let you roll 2d6 choose the highest for the first dice and THEN roll an extra d6 for the melta? looking for a RAW answer.

Razerous wrote:Does melta give you a penetration of 2d6 or "an extra D6". If its the former then no, if its the latter then yes.

prior to writing the post i looked up the wording. it says "roll an extra d6 when rolling to penetrate a vehicle's armor value at half range or less". i can't imagine any reason to add the melta rule and not count it at less than half range as the additional rule would be useless without that.

i guess mathematically. half of infinity is still infinity.