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A couple of situations came up this week.

I had a battery of 3 Zzap guns about to fire. Was the correct decision to roll the strength separately for each gun or to roll for the battery?

While in close combat, my Flash Gitz (with cybork invuls) took 3 wounds from a power weapon. I made one save. Should that have killed 1 gitz or 2 with the remaining 2 wounds left to distribute. It was a S8 hit (on T4 gitz).

You roll for the battery.

I think you'd have lost 2 gitz, due to instant death, but i'm caffiene depleted right now. Anyone want to quote the rulebook

Asclam has it all right; Flash gitz can only be a unit of up to 3 wound groups(Badrukk, Painboy, Gitz) and all are Multi wound models so you would want to take ID-causing wounds on the Gitz, which would cause the loss of 1 Whole, unwounded git/unsaved wound(if you were out of unwounded gitz, i.e. only had 1 wounded git and allocated an ID wound to the git wound-group, then you could safely lose just the Wounded git keeping badrukk and the Painboy alive).

Well, it looks like I screwed that one up.
After re-checking the codex, it specifically says battery.
Was unsure about the other one, but was pretty sure it meant 2 gitz dying.

Green is Best! wrote:Well, it looks like I screwed that one up.
After re-checking the codex, it specifically says battery.
Was unsure about the other one, but was pretty sure it meant 2 gitz dying.

If you think about it you may have missed out on 2/3rd the unit getting a stronger hit(or weaker, but we are talking about how detrimental it could have been to you, not beneficial here) and there was the possibility that you lost more grot crew members than you should have.

You did have the gitz-dying correct though

When removing casualties in identical multi-wound units, you first remove one unwounded model for instant death, if you don't have enough left, keep removing the least wounded model in the unit. Then you remove wounds from the most wounded model, until all unsaved wounds are distributed.

Well, it mattered little for the zzap gun. I rolled so many 4,5 and 6s (total) that I did not even bother rolling to hit the Land Raider I was shooting at. I think one shot out of 9 actually had a chance at doing anything.