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The GK's orbital bombardment "barrage bomb" says Ordnance D3 large blast.

Do you resolve it as ordnance barrage by flipping the pie plates with additional arrow rows or just count w/e it hits as taking 3 hits at the same time?

I was looking at the manticore for inspiration on how to interperate the rule but that thing says ordnance barrage.

Prior to rolling the scatter die you roll d3. You then treat it as ordnance barrage.

No. You never treat it as ordnance barrage, just orndance. All three blasts target the same spot, and then you roll to scatter for each one.

If it is Ordnance D3, large blast, then use it as a D3 shot Ordnance weapon.

Now, there arent actually any rules for this, however the best suggestion is pretend it is D3 weapons firing Ordnance, as this fits the rule the closest.

Reference for this ruling is the Tempest launcher, which is a multiple shot barrage weapon, which was FAQ'd to use the multiple barrage rule

Thanks Nos, I forgot to mention where I was getting my info. Hopefully next edition will fix some of these problems...

nosferatu1001 wrote:the best suggestion is pretend it is D3 weapons firing Ordnance

Technically isn't that impossible? If you fire Ordnance, you can not fire any other weapon without a special rule saying so.

More seriously though, I don't see how this is any different than a Typhoon Speeder that uses multiple blasts. Ordnance rules only affect what can fire and AP, not how it is resolved.

The tempest launcher also had the old 'guess' designation, right? Meaning it was a multiple shot barrage weapon, NOT a multiple shot ordinance weapon.

Treat it like a manticore that fires directly, aka scatter once for each shot on the d3. Multiple Barrage rules are their own entity with special rules for scatter.