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Hi all - can I have some opinions on a issue with a game last night - long time but irregular player so many rules we are still unsure of.

it was all good fun my Dark Eldar with Tryanids vs Imp Guard and Necrons, 1000pts each and first army to die loses - lots of stuff died on both sides so all well and good.

So my Archon and her Retinue charge a Necron Warrior unit including a Lord equiped with a Resurrection Orb, another Warrior unit was engaged by my Tryanid allies - no other Necrons nanywhere nearby. The Archon and her Incubi (all with power weapons) slaughter many Necrons (Very cool) and lose a couple of Dark Eldar in return, massively winning the battle - the Necrons fail their LD test and try to run - but as I have a In 7 they fail to escape and are cut down in a Sweeping Advance. The other Warrior unit is battered by the Nids but the few survivors manage to hold with a LD roll of 2 :(

So we had a short debate on what happens next.............. The rules of the Resurection Orb seemed to suggest that the Lord still got his WBB roll as he had the orb, but we were not sure about the warriors as the Lord was "dead". The Lrod made his roll and some of his warriors joined the other warrior unit and we carried on

Reading threads on here seems to suggest that the Lord and its men should have just died - even with the Orb? Is that right....?

thanks for anyone who has time to answer

Sweeping Advance does not allow WBB, if that is your question. . .

Sweeping Advance removes the unit from the game - there is no coming back. You need to be removed as a casualty to take a WBB test.

hmm thanks - thats how I read it in the other threads but wanted to be clear so I can stick up on the club forum........... it may cause a little "debate"...........

Just link them to one of the thousands of old threads on the subject, or tell them to come to this thread if they're somehow not convinced.

Sweeping Advance forbids any save or special rule from rescuing the swept unit unless otherwise specified (p40, under Sweeping Advances). We'll Be Back and Resurrection Orb don't specify that they work against sweeping advances, so they don't.