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Q. Killakan (armour 11) hit with strength 10 Weapon and the opponent rolled 1 for strength of hit still claiming Glance, is that correct ?
If yes, which other actions are failed on roll of 1 apart of :
- Shooting
- HTH hit
- Wonding (hth and shooting)
- Warp (psionic) on double 1

A 1 to glance is a 1 to glance. Unless the rules say so a '1' is not an auto-fail, and armor penetration does not say so.

Shooting will never hit on a 1 because the rules say so. You get rerolls for BS better than 5.

HTH will hit on 3+ at best, unless the attacking model is using special wargear/rules.

Wounds will never wound on a 1 because the table is that way, there is no 1+ poison either.

Double '1' on psy tests is actually a successful roll, you just get hit by perils in the process.

Characteristic tests will always fail on a 6.

Leadership tests will always fail on double '6', mostly due to characteristics, including LD being capped at 10.

Saving throws can never be better than 2+, so they basically auto-fail on '1', too.

There is no general rule that a "1" is always a fail; in fact it would be immediately contradicted by the rules for Characteristic Tests, which state that a roll of a 1 is *always& a pass.

In fact, when shooting str 10 weapons, there are situations where you don't even need to roll for penetration because they "auto-penetrate" versus armor 10 (str 10 + 1D6 is always at least 11).


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Also double 1's on leadership tests is in fact a critical success (I believe the rules call it "insane heroism") and double 1s for IG orders gives you a free bonus order.

Funny. I played a guy once where my Warboss assaulted an immoblized Rhino. STR 10 on the charge autohitting rear armor 10, meant I was going to get 6 (add in the attack squig) penetrating hits. He still requested I roll to see the strength of the hits he was taking. Even on a 1 the worste I was going to get would be an 11. Go figure.

maybe he was trying to wear out your lucky dice rolling