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Playing a game recently my Archon's bodyguard got shot to pieces (mostly through unfortunate cover saves) but the archon was left on his own, a 10 man assault squad then shot him with pistols, am i right in saying that at ap:5 they instant kill my archon because i believe RAW says it does just wanted to confirm.

Thank you Dakka

Why would the armour penetration affect instant death?

No it doesn't instakill, but you don't get any armor saves. So you need to be wounded 3 times

Aah that makes more sense, only double toughness will inflict instant death thank you guys

Well, not ONLY instant death, just that is the most common way of it occuring.

So they ignore 5+ Armour (Bolt Pistol) which is why you buy him a shadowfield.....

and why shadowfield also fails after two rolls. That's why I always back him up in ghost armor as well.

thats also why you put him iin a raider in a raider spam army so they cant tell which raider to take down first.

Erm, the default is you must denote which unit is in which transport. You can play with secret lists, but there is a good chance of shenanigans

he does have a shadow field and made around 10 saves before the one in question

wait....your archong got shot AND assaulted by slower, clunkier spess meherines?


what happened to his ride?

what happend to his army and their rides?

why was he with warriors?

why was he not with incubi?

He never said he was with warriors, just "bodyguards". Obviously he was with a nine man squad of sexy Wyches (they can guard my body) who fell victim to crappy cover saves since their normal 6+ is next to useless. The Archon did his best to save his slaves, alas a 2++ can only take so much punishment (unless I'm rolling the dice...then it usually takes no punishement and just fails immediately, I should have went with Energizer, Duracell always let me down).