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An example, from a game with my friends:

My Emperor's Champion is assaulting a Space Marine squad. In one turn, he recieved 2 normal wounds and 1 power weapon wound.
The EC has 2+ armour, and 4+ invulnerable in CC. At the time, unsure of the rules, I picked the 4+ save for ALL WOUNDS.
(All of which he passed and continued on, and sent the remaining Veteran packing )

But, was I allowed to take 4+ for the power weapon, and 2+ for the normal hits?

The Rulebook does say "THE MODEL ONLY EVER GETS TO TAKE ONE SAVING THROW," but doesn't state anything specific about it. I just want to be clear.

You take your best saving throw, but you only get to make one save per wound, so you would use the 4+ Invuln for power weapon attack and 2+ for the normal hits.

Remember the context of that statement, which is dealing with a singular wound. Yiu take you best save, singular, against eah wound, singular

nosferatu1001 wrote:Remember the context of that statement, which is dealing with a singular wound. Yiu take you best save, singular, against eah wound, singular

Yeah, I guess it is kind of obvious.

Still, as long as it doesn't say it specifically, I'm going to get confused. I'm bad at reading context.

Mike Zulu wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:Remember the context of that statement, which is dealing with a singular wound. Yiu take you best save, singular, against eah wound, singular

Yeah, I guess it is kind of obvious.

Still, as long as it doesn't say it specifically, I'm going to get confused. I'm bad at reading context.

Just as, I feel, an important aside. Feel no pain is an exception to the one save per wound rule (as you must fail your saving throw first which is different then a feel no pain throw)

Sorry, just felt it needed to be said for nooby sake

thakabalpuphorsefishguy wrote:Feel no pain is an exception to the one save per wound rule

Except FNP is not a saving throw.

Yes. What the above all said is correct.

Generally, when playing and different saves come in (whether it be power weapons vs. normal attacks in cc, or AP 1/2 shots vs AP 3+), I set aside dice for each wound. For normal saves I use one color and for invul saves I use another. Once all of the wounds have been issued, you can then use the different color dice to assign wounds throughout the squad.