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when you use his tail to attack does it hit your own team?

Right, I don't have my Skorne book with me currently but via battle college I find out that Rhinodon has the special attack Thresher. If you use thresher then you do have to make an attack against all models within melee range and LoS. So, yes, if you use thresher.

The one thing I can't comment on with assurance is the interaction with Rear Attack. From this I assume that the thresher attack extends into the rear arc of the Rhinodon as well?

It says

Tail
Reach

Rear attack- when declaring and resolving attacks with this weapon, this models front arc extends 360


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I guess it hits everything.

If you do a thresher attack, yep. You attack everything within 2" of the rhinodon. But you can choose not to of course.

Regarding the use of the Rhinodaon with eHexy, would you be able to make a second thresher attack if you managed to kill a model in a unit affected by Black Spot. Or would this have to be a normal melee attack.. i.e against a single model?

What would be the result of Thresher with Beat Back Animus?

Thresher is a special attack. It is made in place of your initial attacks only. You cannot make multiple thresher attacks in a round.


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Also - I am not 100% on this but in the rule for beat back it states:

"...Immediately
after a normal attack with
this weapon is resolved..."

Since thresher is a special attack, I would assume it does not qualify for beat back.

The verbage for Black spot seems to imply that you can make another attack of the same type regardless of ROF etc. only that it has to be the same type (melee or Ranged).

Regarding Beat Back: would that also imply that you can't make a charge attack as well...and that it must be a one of your normal initial or normal forced attacks?

Charge attacks are normal attacks.

I'm going to lock this as it's a separate rules question. Post again if you want further clarification.