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In a normal situation, when a RnF unit with a character suffers wounds from shooting, you allocate the wounds to normal RnF troops and remove from the back, but could someone choose to have those wounds hit heroes/lords who have joined the unit. For example

20 night goblins lead by a night goblin shaman; they suffer 5 wounds from tomb king skeleton archer shooting, could you (as the gobbo player) choose to take a wound on the night shaman, and leave the other 4 for the RnF troops? or do all 5 wounds have to go into the RnF troops?



If it is possible, it implies that a VC unit can put up a buffer of ethereal characters to soak nonmagic shooting while the unit approaches.

No, you may not. The character rules dont allow it.

Nos is correct. If you have 5 or more rank and file, characters don't get hit.

If you've got 5 rank and file left and 3 characters attached, and you take 45 wounding hits from a huge bowmen horde, all you lose is the 5 rank and file.

-Matt