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Hey all,

Stupid question, do Penetrating hits still get downgraded to glancing hits against skimmers moving in 5th edition? I ask, because in an article on Fast vehicle tactica on the GW website, it says it does but the rulebook doesn't seem to agree.

Nope, now you get the cover save if you move fast.

Indeed. If you move over 12" with a fast skimmer you get a 4+ cover save. The downgraded glancing hits are gone!

Tiny Geek wrote:Hey all,

Stupid question, do Penetrating hits still get downgraded to glancing hits against skimmers moving in 5th edition? I ask, because in an article on Fast vehicle tactica on the GW website, it says it does but the rulebook doesn't seem to agree.

When it comes to RULES, The RULEbook is right, not some Tactica.

Warboss Tufgrim wrote:Indeed. If you move over 12" with a fast skimmer you get a 4+ cover save. The downgraded glancing hits are gone!

I believe you have to move a minimum of 18" to benefit from that, but you don't get to shoot unfortunately.

It gets worse. If your Skimmer has moved Flat Out then any Immobilized damage results in the subsequent turn will convert to Destroyed (Wrecked) damage results. That means that they can be destroyed on glancing hits, and on 50% of penetrating hits (or a 50% increase in the number of penetrating hits that destroy it, which balances out nicely the 50% reduction in penetrating hits that have an effect).

Kevin949 wrote:

Warboss Tufgrim wrote:Indeed. If you move over 12" with a fast skimmer you get a 4+ cover save. The downgraded glancing hits are gone!

I believe you have to move a minimum of 18" to benefit from that, but you don't get to shoot unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure that's just for Bikes turbo-boosting. Skimmers moving flat-out only needs to move 13+ inches.

Yup. Flat Out for Skimmers is 13"-24", unlike regular vehicles where it's 13"-18".