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Hi All

Just looking at the rules for poisoned attacks and having only play the game twice and both times not using crypt ghouls, I am a little confused over the rule interpretation for this.

Can you guys help?

Cheers
Andy

I'm not sure if Crypt Ghouls have special rules around their poison, but the basic rule is fairly straight forward.

For melee attacks, any roll of a '6' on the To-Hit roll automatically wounds.

For shooting attacks, any roll of a '6' on the To-Hit roll automatically wounds, as long as you need a 6 or less to hit as per the BS chart.

It basically allows you to bypass the "To Wound" step for that particular hit.

They still get armor saves or regen/ward and all, auto wound means just what you steamdragon said above, you skip the roll to wound.

It's important to remember that the usual armor save modifiers apply as well. A S4 poisoned attack still causes -1 to AS on Poison auto-wounds.

Brilliant thanks for that! I noted the roll of 6 etc. but I was thinking that you would have hit anyways on a 6 seeing as 5 is the highest to hit! But now knowing that it bypasses the wounding stage makes it better!

Cheers

Wulfen Andy wrote:Brilliant thanks for that! I noted the roll of 6 etc. but I was thinking that you would have hit anyways on a 6 seeing as 5 is the highest to hit! But now knowing that it bypasses the wounding stage makes it better!

Cheers

i got a horde of 70 ghouls with my master necromancer shortly behind raising fallen ghouls, the 6 to wound in the hitting phase is phenomenal, i killed shaggoth in two rounds since i had 16 dices thrown at him! ghouls are the 7th edition gg in my opinion, quite frankly i am very dissapointed with the gg's