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 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Johnny, I don't think anyone's saying the shooting player gets to decide what your models do; just the order in which they do it.

...which is choosing what my models do. I want to roll one of them but you choose the one who's wounded, say. You're controlling my models at that point.

If the Bodyguard rule is optional, you still get to choose whether or not to use it with one or both models. Your opponent just gets to decide which one goes first. If it's mandatory, then it doesn't matter.

I think what we have here is an unintended double-up that won't happen in more than 1 game in 1000, and wasn't considered by the writers. YMMV.

This has been answered.

Errata to the wording, one roll, one model within range takes the mortal wound.

No it has been erratad


Roll a D6 each time a friendly Astra Militarum
Infantry Character (excluding Ogryns) loses a
wound whilst they are within 3" of any models with this
ability; on a 3+ the Astra Militarum character does not
lose a wound but one model with this ability suffers a mortal wound

So only 1 suffers a wound and because it doesn't trigger off ogryns you no longer loop and have to role again

However we now have a weird magical teleporting W because the model that receives a W can be 6 feet away from the model that gave you a 3+ roll

The errata doesn't do anything to solve the Q answered in the OP, does it?

It answers it clearly you do a singular role and then assign the W to any model with that rule anywhere on the battlefield how is that not a clear answer of the op

U02dah4 wrote:
It answers it clearly you do a singular role and then assign the W to any model with that rule anywhere on the battlefield how is that not a clear answer of the op

There was only one Ogryn Bodyguard in OP's scenario, the other model was Colour Sergeant Kell, who has a similar ability that only works on Creed. Kell's ability has not been errata'd.

 Cream Tea wrote:

U02dah4 wrote:
It answers it clearly you do a singular role and then assign the W to any model with that rule anywhere on the battlefield how is that not a clear answer of the op

There was only one Ogryn Bodyguard in OP's scenario, the other model was Colour Sergeant Kell, who has a similar ability that only works on Creed. Kell's ability has not been errata'd.

This. Chuck in Nork Deddog too (different rule name/wording yet again) and some would be arguing all three 'bodyguards' would lose a wound for a single wound caused on the Character being protected!

Missed that. Different rule names so raw you roll for both. If both suceed Kell takes 1 wound and you assign 1 to a body guard somewhere on the battlefield. Then if kell takes a wound and the ogryn is close enough he has to try and bodyguard kell. So you can have a situation weirdly where the ogryn takes 2 wound.

Also sInce the 40k page specifically mentions that they were doing this to close the "ogryn hyperloop" they rai acknowledge this was how the raw worked before