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Is there a 'hierarchy' in allocating normal wounds and power weapon wounds? Say a unit of three remaining GK terminators has two regular termies with swords (4+ inv) and one with a warding staff (2+inv) and has taken 3 power-weapon wounds and 6 regular wounds that allow armor saves:

-Can you allocate all 3 PW wounds to the warding staff, then 3 normal wounds on each of the sword-carrying termies?

-Or do you have to allocate one PW wound to each, then 2 regular wounds to each of the three?

If the wounds were all inflicted with the same Initiative value, then they can be allocated as 3 on the warding, 6 on the other two.

As the BRB says, different S value attacks "quite often have different Initiative characteristics too", which is true most of the time (obviously not w/ lightning claws).

In the Assault Phase, you pick one close combat, and everyone in it rolls to-hit and to-wound in Initiative order - so if the PW wound is the same Initiative as the regular, it can be allocated at the same time.

Further backing this up is the BRB, page 39, saying "remember to use different colored dice or otherwise mark out the wounds that have different special rules attached to them (like those inflicting instant death or those that ignore armour saves), as you would do in the shooting phase."

The unit owner can assign the wounds in any way he likes as long as wounds are spread evenly. In your example you would be able to dump the PW wounds on a single guy as the other 2 would also pick up 3 wounds each. The example on P25 if the rule book is pretty good.

Allocating wounds doesnt c are at all about what "type" of wounds they are - if you look at the wound allocation rules for shooting you can see they advocate stacking

nosferatu1001 wrote:Allocating wounds doesnt c are at all about what "type" of wounds they are )

...unless they cause instant death.

No, not even then

*Allocating* wounds is what you do before taking saves.
Removing casualties is where you care about the type of unsaved wound.

Nungunz wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:Allocating wounds doesnt c are at all about what "type" of wounds they are )

...unless they cause instant death.

Building on what you said in that last statement, does the Grey Knight force weapon rule make you to spread the wounds in that circumstance, even on troops with single wounds? For instance if he had some Activated force weapon attacks in the unit that were mingled through with some normal attacks will the "instant death" attacks have to be spread evenly?

No. Again, wound allocation is not reliant on the type of wound.

Instant Death is not determined until after you roll saves... which comes after wound allocation.


Wound allocation is based solely on the number of wounds the unit suffers.

insaniak wrote:No. Again, wound allocation is not reliant on the type of wound.

Instant Death is not determined until after you roll saves... which comes after wound allocation.


Wound allocation is based solely on the number of wounds the unit suffers.

Whoops my bad. Jumped the gun there. The above is correct.


I am a dunce. You may continue with the thread.

i may be wrong but what it sounds to me is each would get 1 PW wound and 2 normal wounds

Why?

It's already been explained in detail why that's not the case.

sorry missed a line you posted