I've seen this come up a bit about poisoned (4+ wound) attacks...

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**Pen≥Sword**

So two of my big armies (Dark Eldar and Tyranids) both have poisoned attacks in many of their profiles. After going through some tactica and whatnot I've noticed that people often refer to re-rolls to wound. I was curious about this and tried flipping through my rulebook but haven't found anything on the matter.

Can anyone maybe enlighten me to what all this malarkey is?

**kirsanth**

Page 42, main rules.

If the S score is equal to or higher than the T score, rerolls apply.

Although, iirc, the DE ranged poison weapons are exempt (as mostly their s=x)

Editing because I missed a phrase that mattered.

**nosferatu1001**

Poison weapons reroll if the S is equal or better than the T of the model being attacked.

DE never get this as their ranged weaponry is S:X

**jdjamesdean@mail.com**

Kirsnath and Nos have it spot on

**Pen≥Sword**

Ah, alright. I was wondering about the strength X because I know the changed the str of the Sterngaurd Vets hellfire rounds from X to 1 for reasons unknown to me. I figured maybe this would come up with the DE.

**Gavin Thorne**

Pen≥Sword wrote:Ah, alright. I was wondering about the strength X because I know the changed the str of the Sterngaurd Vets hellfire rounds from X to 1 for reasons unknown to me. I figured maybe this would come up with the DE.

For the effects vs. vehicles, one would imagine. Also, unless the weapon's profile indicates Poisoned, it is not. Some weapons simply wound on a specific number like Hellfire rounds and Witchblades and do not benefit from the poison S vs. T re-roll.

**Noir**

Posion only gives rerolls in close combat.