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It says to roll 4d6 for length to determine how many units are hit. Close combat and frienlies aqr eunaffected.

1. How many times must I roll to hit once or for every enemy unit?

2. Do units benefit from a 4+ cover save for shooting through the other units?

1) You only roll once to determine the length of the shot. Every unit in its path is hit automatically.
2) Yes.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:It says to roll 4d6 for length to determine how many units are hit. Close combat and frienlies aqr eunaffected.

1. How many times must I roll to hit once or for every enemy unit?

2. Do units benefit from a 4+ cover save for shooting through the other units?

Roll 4d6 for length This is how far the Blood Lance extends along a straight line. there is no 'to hit' roll.

Since "Any enemy unit in the lances' path suffer a single Strength 8, AP1 hit with the 'Lance' type." P.63 Blood Angels Codex.

As for the cover save, it is a psychic shooting attack, it does not say that it disallows cover saves.

So you get your cover save. (though I can see why you asked based on the fluff)

As previous posters have said, the roll for the length of the Lance is made once only, and the Lance causes wounds, so yes, cover saves are applicable
Hope that helps

Damn thats a harsh penalty as any horde army will just laugh at this power. Thats why we bring the epiostolary with smite too but in tourneys, everyone has some psychic counter so 2 power potential results in fail 50% of the time. Works against mechdar savagely imo.

What everyone else has said; think of it as a kind of Template attack, except your template is a line instead of a.... Template.

Defeatmyarmy wrote:Damn thats a harsh penalty as any horde army will just laugh at this power. Thats why we bring the epiostolary with smite too but in tourneys, everyone has some psychic counter so 2 power potential results in fail 50% of the time. Works against mechdar savagely imo.

It doesn't have anything to do with the question, but I can't see how Blood Lance allowing cover saves is in any way harsh. It's for taking out vehicles, not infantry; it's not JotWW, it doesn't hit specific models, so you can't use it to snipe out a Power Klaw (and the 12 Boyz behind said PK). Besides, why would you care if horde armies laugh at it considering your BA have so very many other tools to chew hordes up?