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Imagine that a Necron Night Scythe is carrying a unit of Immortals, and gets hit and explodes. Do the occupants take wounds before going into reserves?

Fluffwise, I'd say that they aren't actually on the Nigh Scythe when it explodes, and so they don't take a hit, but I'm not sure "rules-wise".

Technically, when a vehicle explodes, the models are placed in the crater which the Night Scythe doesn't cover. (Night Scythe says models don't disembark after destroyed results.)

All that being said... Technically, yes. They take the hits.

I probably wouldn't play it that way though.

There is nothing exempting them from taking the hits. Rules are pretty clear on that.

Fluff != Rules

Since it states that the surviving models are placed, it would only follow that since they are put into reserves instead of being placed that it would occur at the same time as it would in relation to being placed.
So yes, they take the hits.

Actually, Nungunz, GW has decided that occasionally, when they feel like it, and specifically state as such, Fluff==Rules.

Happyjew wrote:Actually, Nungunz, GW has decided that occasionally, when they feel like it, and specifically state as such, Fluff==Rules.

Right. But since that's the exception, not the rule, then you have to assume that fluff means nothing.