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RAW "One Shot" means it can fire once (Ergo ... one shot). Every time we spend points we purchase a new instances which has nothing to do with any previous instances (otherwise I'd be buy replacement models every time they died).

Except the RAW argument isnt what Fling says it is: fling, despite evidence to the contrary, is willfully misinterpreting the clear English usage of "One shot" to pretend there is a problem.

There isn't.

I know but just point out clearly how it does work for all those complaining that RAW doesn't work (it's true there are places its damn ropey but this isn't one)

FlingitNow wrote:All those have defined English meanings. The One-shot rule doesn't, whilst it most likely means 1 shot per game it could easily mean 1 shot per turn or 1 shot per player turn (i.e. saying you could even fire it in your opponents turn). As written we just don't know so it doesn't override any of the existing rules for shooting as it is not specific in any way.

It has a very clearly defined English meaning. It means 'one shot'... as in 'one'... meaning singular, solo, one... and 'shot'... meaning 'shot'....

It gets one shot. So you get to fire it once.

Until you can point to anything that indicates that the 'one' means anything other than 'one', or to something that allows it to fire every turn, doing anything other than firing it once is going to be against the rules, because without any rule to the contrary you're left with the actual meaning of the words being the definition of what it does in game.

No matter how hard you try, you can't manufacture a RAW issue out of this. The meaning is clear. 'One shot' means 'one shot'.

I'm going to be honest here, I love reading the strange, convoluted, and often slightly unhinged RAW arguments that spawn from these YMDC threads, sometimes.

However, a small caveat back on topic: Nobody in this discussion disagrees with my ability to fire more than one of my missiles from a single vehicle, providing I subtract the number I fired from the total number of missiles remaining? (As the rules clearly state)

RAW:
Please define 'rolling' in relation to dice. I percieve 'rolling' to being a 'a state of being rolled' and therefore perpetual. Since the dice do not continue to be rolled eternally but rather stop you're cheating.

You have 4 missiles. You can fire each one once.

Shelegelah wrote:I'm going to be honest here, I love reading the strange, convoluted, and often slightly unhinged RAW arguments that spawn from these YMDC threads, sometimes.

However, a small caveat back on topic: Nobody in this discussion disagrees with my ability to fire more than one of my missiles from a single vehicle, providing I subtract the number I fired from the total number of missiles remaining? (As the rules clearly state)

Sure, as long as you obey the restriction on how many weapons you're allowed to fire based on how far the vehicle moved. Each missile is a weapon.

Perfect, exactly as I thought.

Next we will arguing over the definition of "is".

"One shot" means you can use it once... Not once per turn, or once per shooting phase... Once...

Considering you buy it at the start of the game, you can use each "one shot" item once for each time you buy it.

That would be once per game...

On the same general note, would a model with hellstrike missiles be able to fire all of them in a single turn, or only one? note that hellstrike missiles are ordnance, and I've only seen IA say - they're only treated as ordnance for vehicle damage purposes

No, you may only fire A single Ordnance weapon each turn, see the BRB rules on Ordnance