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**unite all action**

Just a quick rules enquiry I played orks and my friend has a very sneaky way of targeting my big mek, by simply placing and ordnance template so that it covers my mek on the hope of it scoring a hit, and then he says that all damage will affect him individually and not be distributed through his unit.

Is this true

**Tri**

If the big mek is in a unit, You pick who in the unit takes the wound and needs to try and make their save (if any). The only way that the big mek must take a wound is if every one takes a wound (or if he's on his own).

**unite all action**

that's exactly what I thought after all that seemed a bit pointless if it was true?

**nosferatu1001**

This happened in 3rd, and was stupid....

**Gwar!**

nosferatu1001 wrote:This happened in 3rd, and was stupid....

You could in 3rd edition force your opponent to move the template or marker to cover and equal or greater number of models.

What really WAS stupid was me being awesome and getting a Squad of Termies exactly 23.9" from your IC and 24.1" from the rest of the unit, meaning only the IC could take any wounds from the 20 Storm Bolter shots and a Krak Missile that just headed your way.

Ahhh, fun times.

**Kapitalist-Pig**

Is your friend playing with the Necron Monolith? If he is and if I remember this correctly, if the blast template hits, the model underneath take a S9 AP 2 shot so that would counter act this. If not then what everyone else is saying is correct.

**Tri**

Kapitalist-Pig wrote:Is your friend playing with the Necron Monolith? If he is and if I remember this correctly, if the blast template hits, the model underneath take a S9 AP 2 shot so that would counter act this. If not then what everyone else is saying is correct.

Sorry but even then the person taking the wound can pick who it effects

necron faq wrote:Q. Can the AP1 hit from the particle whip be
assigned to any member of a squad or does it
have to be assigned to the model under the
centre of the template?
A. Any model directly under the centre of the
large blast template of the particle whip takes an
AP1 hit. The rules for blast weapons state that the
defending player may remove casualties from the
unit as a whole, not necessarily those under the
template, and this rule still applies here, so the
player can assign the AP1 hit to any model in the
unit.

**insaniak**

Kapitalist-Pig wrote: If he is and if I remember this correctly, if the blast template hits, the model underneath take a S9 AP 2 shot so that would counter act this.

It's an AP1 hit, and as per the FAQ, can still be assigned as the player wishes in 5th edition.