Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

straight forward question:
When a unit is wounded with a Multiple Wounds weapon, do the Multiple wounds spill over to the other models if each model only has one wound on it.

Example:
Skaven assassin with Weeping blade MW(D3)
Lets assume 3 unsaved wounds so is that just 3 unsaved wounds wounds if they each only have 1 wound are would that be 3d3 wounds sent to the unit as per normal CC rules?

straight forward answer: no

A model can't suffer more wounds than the ones on its profile. So a unit of say gnoblars can loose one wound per model max, but a unit of ogre bulls can go all the way up to 3 per model.
The fact the multyplying happens after saves gives it away.

Multiwound weapons vs multiwound targets are kinda confusing. Basically if there is a model that is previously wounded it can take up to the number of wounds on its profile. for example if you have a troll that normally has 3 wounds but is down to 1 wound if it were hit by a cannon ball the cannon shot can do 3 wounds which would spill over to the other models.

Synnister wrote:Multiwound weapons vs multiwound targets are kinda confusing. Basically if there is a model that is previously wounded it can take up to the number of wounds on its profile. for example if you have a troll that normally has 3 wounds but is down to 1 wound if it were hit by a cannon ball the cannon shot can do 3 wounds which would spill over to the other models.

Pretty much this.
Examples:
1. A unit of marauders is hit by a warpfire thrower, 5 unsaved wounds are caused, each of those should be multiplied by D3 but since marauders only have 1 wound each you just remove 5 of them.
2. A unit of trolls is hit instead, lets say thats 3 unsaved wounds, since each troll can loose up to 3 wounds per model, wounded or not, we do the multypliyng (with 3 being the maximum), 3D3 end up being 6 wounds – 6 wounds worth of trolls are killed.

Keep in mind tho that these examples don't include unit champs and/or characters.

For multi-wound units, its important to note that "models" don't really carry wounds. The unit carries wounds. So you can't have one troll with one wound and another with two or whatever. The unit will carry the spare wound and add it up the next time they take more.

psf3077 wrote:straight forward question:
When a unit is wounded with a Multiple Wounds weapon, do the Multiple wounds spill over to the other models if each model only has one wound on it.

As other people have said, they don’t spill over. This is a key strategic concept in the game, as it means multi-wound weapons are deadly against models with lots of wounds, but their special ability is wasted against single wound models. So the challenge is to make sure your multi-wound weapons like cannons and magic weapons target his big creatures, while preventing your opponent from doing the same.

sebster wrote:As other people have said, they don’t spill over. This is a key strategic concept in the game, as it means multi-wound weapons are deadly against models with lots of wounds, but their special ability is wasted against single wound models. So the challenge is to make sure your multi-wound weapons like cannons and magic weapons target his big creatures, while preventing your opponent from doing the same.

+1

Page 45 of the BRB explains it with a pretty good example at the end of the paragraph.