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Sooo... Scarabs are 3 wounds each and Toughness 3... The blood talon dread attacks are str 6 and gain an extra attack for each unsaved wound you inflict. Since each hit causes instant death... do you generate 3 attacks for each unsaved wound? or only 1 since the ONE unsaved wound caused the model to die?

Just one.

Each ID counts as 3 for combat resolution, but you only caused one wound.

As a Blood Angels player, I agree with Rigeld2

You only generate an extra attack, the wound is 1 unsaved but causes instant death in this case.

I agree with Rigeld 2

As a "new" blood angel player, i am a little confused by the scenario presented, could someone go into greater detail as to resolving this kind of CC situation, Thanks.

Necron Scarabs get assault a Dread with Blood Talons. Dread goes first and does 2 wounds. This would cause 2 wounds to be placed on the scarab with has 3W. However since the Dread is Str 6, and the scarab is T3 those are instadeath wounds so 2 whole models must be removed.

The question from the OP was would the Dread get 2 additional attacks or 6. His logic was that 6 wounds were removed from the combat.

However, as explained above the answer is only 2.

ok, So how would the rest of the assault be played out? would the other player lose 1 or 2 more scarabs?

sub-zero wrote:ok, So how would the rest of the assault be played out? would the other player lose 1 or 2 more scarabs?

First round of attacks from the blender, 2 wounds caused, 2 bases removed, 2 more attacks from the blender.
Let's say only one hits, but it does wound. That's another scarab base gone and another attack gained.
This time the attack hits, but fails to wound. Now the scarabs get to swing back.

At the end of the combat, assuming the scarabs don't kill the dread, the dread has done 9 wounds for combat resolution, and the scarabs have done (some amount). Determine morale results from there.

sub-zero wrote:ok, So how would the rest of the assault be played out? would the other player lose 1 or 2 more scarabs?

Well, that would of course depend on whether or not the dread manages to hit/wound any additional scarabs, doesn't it. To continue jbunny's example, after the first two scarab bases die, the dread gets two more attacks, hits with both but only wounds with one. That's one more dead base. Now one more attack, hits and wounds, one more dead base, and so on until the dread completely whiffs and fails to hit/wound.

sub-zero wrote:ok, So how would the rest of the assault be played out? would the other player lose 1 or 2 more scarabs?

1) Dread attacks number for the number of attacks it has, with bonuses (3 or 4 if charging)
2) Roll to hit (needing a 3+)
3) Take all hits and roll to wound (needing 2+, with re-roll)
4) Take each wound and roll saves (no armor saves, and I don't think scarabs can get invul, so auto-fail)
5) Remove 1 base per unsaved wound, due to ID
6) For each unsaved wound, the Dread makes additional attacks equal to the number of unsaved wounds (which is same as the number of bases removed)
7) Repeat steps 2-6 until no attacks remain, or all enemies destroyed
8) At combat resolution, the Dread gets credit for the total number of wounds lost by the scarabs (which will be more than the number of wounds caused by him)