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In a recent game against my friend's Grey Knight army I dropped and orbital bombardment on his troops that hit dead on, he argued using his codex it still scatters based on the small arrow on the dice. I not having mine could not argue but felt that wrong, so long story short I lost the game. I went home and read both codexes on the subject scavenged the official faq and found nothing to that effect for space marine for simplicity sake here are Both Army's rules


SM

Note that if an arrow is rolled on the scatter dice an orbital
bombardment will always scatter the full 2D6" - the Chapter
Master's Ballistic Skill makes no difference

My interpratation of this is an actual arrow image on my scatter dice not the little triangles on my hit marker

GK

Note Orbital Strikes always scatter the full 2d6" in direction shown (if a hit is rolled they scatter the direction of the small arrow on the hit symbol)

The fact that GK specify this is different from the space marine codex wording. which in my opinion makes it exclusive for their army



Am I wrong? OR should there have been pummeled grey knights under my template?

You should have pummeled GK under your template.

His grey knights should be grey goo. The SM orbital bombardment does not scatter when a hit is rolled. His always scatters but he gets it each turn. You get it once a game but it will not scatter on a hit.

I play SM on occasion and find the OB a fantastic way to open a match. After that, though, the CM is almost worthless.

-cgmckenzie

Brilliant, I May have still lost either way but reducing him to only his squad holding an objective may have atleast gotten me the draw.

SM don't scatter as stated above as it is not specified in the codex as it is in the GK codex.