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I'm pretty sure this a noob question: when you take casualties from a blast area weapon, do you still get to choose which models are casualties (or take the wounds) or does it have to be people under the template?

You get to choose who is taken as a casualty, as removing models under the template could ruin coherency

Actually its because otherwise you could snipe models, like in 3rd.

Yes, you remove from anywhere in the unit. The blast / template just defines the number of hits the unit suffers, nothing more.

Okay. Does that still apply if one of the units had different gear (like a big shoota in a group of slugga boys)? So if 2 slugga and one big shoota are covered by a flamer template, could you pick the slugga but have to take that big shoota (unless you had more than 1 in the unit)?

Normal wound allocation and casualty removal rules apply. Absolutely nothing changes from how you normally resolve wounds.

Cool, thanks for the help guys.