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the 40k rulebook says buildings have an armor value and can be destroyed but how does that play out on the vehicle damage chart? buildins are obviously immobile and unless they have weapons they are also stunned and shaken. how is a building smashed and destroyed?

You destroy it by rolling a 'Destroyed' or 'Wrecked' on the vehicle damage chart.

but thats too damn hard sometimes why would it ignore everything else

you would think a demolisher cannon would just drop the building

Rule closer on the rules, stunned and weapon destroyed (if there is no weapons left) count as a shaken result rendering shooters inside useless. Also, since the building is immobile just wack it with a power fist and watch it crumble from the shear volume of penetrating hits.

i can live with that

General Ian wrote:but thats too damn hard sometimes why would it ignore everything else

If they make it too easy to destroy them, there would be no point in putting troops in them.

In CoD, there are special building killing rules. I think.

Nope. There are a couple of strategems that give you the option to destroy a ruin, but that's about it.

So if buildings are treated as vehicles how can you target units inside buildings?

you cant, excepting flamer templates on windows i think is it.

Yeah flamer templates on fire points inflict D6 hits on the unit inside, in addition to the hit on the building.

General Ian wrote:So if buildings are treated as vehicles how can you target units inside buildings?

Understand we're talking about intact buildings.

If they're ruins, then they're just terrain so there's no issue targeting units inside.

For clarification, picture one, bastion: Intact building, can be destroyed. Units cannot be directly targeted because they're inside.

Picture two, ruined shrine: ruin, cannot be destroyed (it's already wrecked). TLOS applies for targeting units.

Okay thanks for the clarification