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This came up last night and it wasn't a huge deal, but I thought it was wrong. Could anyone point me to the right page number?

Situation:

Squad with a flamer was shooting at a MC (Daemon Prince) about 20" away. In between was a small squad of flamers of Tzeentch. My opponent shot at the MC with normal weapons and said he was trying to maneuver his flamer where they could shoot at the MC and miss, but hit my flamers instead. I thought the flamer had to hit the target unit first before it could do any damage to other units, but could not find anything to back it up.

Any help is appreciated.

What your friend did there is utter bull. If you can't hit the unit you declare shooting with then you miss and nothing happens, exception being blasts scattering.


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wooooooooo I'm a lesser daemon lol sorry........

If the template can't hit prince then it does nothing but if it hits the mc then it hits flamers too.

If you are out of range you automatically miss. A flamer has range "template" - if the unit is not under the template you are out of range and automatically miss

I agree with what you are saying, I just could not find the wording in the book (did not look that quickly) to back it up.

Ugh common sense rules that are in the book somewhere are really annoying to find.

I'd say page 17 "check range" covers this pretty well