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So, now that I've put my dwarfs up on their shelf to gather dust and started putting my empire army together, I have run into some things (har har) that I never did before.

Specifically, I'm confused about impact hits. Are they allocated like shooting (i.e. can I decide I want them all to go on his general in that blood knight death star? Or can he decide?).

Here's a situation that happened yesterday:

Khorne herald on a chariot. His chariot gives him a 3+ armor save, and he was wearing the Armor of Khorne, which also gives him a 3+ armor save. Now if you combine these, it's a -2+ armor save, but that seems a bit silly. We ended up randomizing the hits between the chariot and the herald, which resulted in a smashed chariot and a totally untouched herald who then went poof from combat res. Is this correct? Or is a chariot a single model?

Help a n00b out.

No problem:

BRB, p 63:

"Impact hits against a unit of troops are distributed like shooting."

When shooting a chariot, 1-5 is chariot, 6 is character (BRB p 64).

Also, he's doing his armor save wrong. Also from page 64: "...the character either gains a +2 armor save bonus for riding the chariot or can use the armor save value of the chariot, whichever is the best".

Hope that helps.

RZ

Ah. So he should have had a 1+ save on his guy, but I didn't wound the guy anyway so it didn't matter.

Thank you kindly.

[EDIT] and thank you kindly for being the reason I don't need to buy a BRB (I'm waiting for the 8th ed one)

Actually impact hits only hit the mount the model is riding on, when the mount is monstrous or chariot*, so in this case you couldnt cause impact hits on the model anyway.

*the exception is the stegadon, as it states that ALL shooting is distributed as X - this overrides impact hits general rules.

This rule is handy as I ran a steg into a Carnosaur, killing the 'saur through impact hits along. I then was able to clobber the Old Blood, win combat and run him down

Ah poop, sorry. Nos is right- it's right there on page 63 as well.

RZ