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I'm confused about how the markerlights are used when raising ballistic skill, can someone explain it?
and what if you want more than one unit to bennifit from the markerlights?

Unit A has 3 marker light tokens on it

You pick your own unit X to fire, with a BS of 3. Before rolling to hit you decide if you want to increase their BS by 1 or 2 by expending 1 or 2 tokens. WHen you roll to hit the unit has BS4 or 5.

Unit Y then fires on the same unit. Unit X used up 1 or 2 tokens, leaving 2 or 1 tokens (3-1, 3-2) for you to again raise ballistic skill

More than one unit CANNOT use the exact same token, as using the token removes it

You shoot a target with markerlights. 4 of them hit.

The target is going to be shot at by a unit of battlesuits. They are currently BS 3. Take 2 markerlights off, and use them on that squad, which increases their BS by 2, for a BS of 5.

You shoot with that unit.

The target isn't dead.

You can then shoot at the target with another unit, which is BS 2 in this example, and increase their bs by 2 using the last 2 markerlights, giving them BS of 4.

Markerlights only help the unit you removed them for. Taking 3 markerlights off a unit to remove cover only works for a single target shooting at it.

Ok thanks, I thought that you just shot the target, and raises the ballistic skill to whoever shot at that unit. Silly me.