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So I played a couple games tonight with my Draigowing list and a kind of cheesy tactic seemed to pop up that I want to make sure that I was doing correctly.

I have a 10 man Paladin squad with an Apothecary and Draigo is joined to it. I rolled for two new psychic powers from the new 6th edition set and got Precognition for Draigo letting him reroll his failed saves. I cast Precognition in my movement phase so that it will last until my next turn. In my opponents shooting phase my Paladins take a Lascannon hit with Draigo standing in the middle of the bunch, easily within 6" of the model taking the hit. I roll a LOS using Draigo and pass on a 2+ since he's an IC and the Paladins are all Characters. This allows me to take the Invulnerable save on Draigo's shield and reroll that save if I fail. It also allows me to take a FNP roll against it since Draigo is T5. It was also decided that FNP is a save and thus rerollable due to the Precognition power.

Does this sound right? If so then it feels like Draigowing just got potentially ridiculous as long as you manage to roll a 5 on picking your psychic powers from the Divination pool.

Its correct except for the rerolling the FnP bit. FnP is NOT a save, it specifically says so in the FnP rule entry.

Also, Draigo does not have permission for him to switch powers.

Only Librarians and Inquisitors (including Coteaz) are given permission to trade powers.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but, even if Draigo could switch powers, wouldn't the shot have hit the closest paladin and the LoS roll would be the lesser roll for non IC characters? Not the 2+ version since Draigo was not the original target?

Also,

You must Look Out Sir for the model closest to the attacking unit. Unless that model is Draigo, then you would only have a 4+ (the 2+ only applies to when the IC is taking the shot).


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As in, I agree with Aengus, the sneaky ninja

And for rolling the LoS! on a 2+, the Paladin may be a Character, but he's not an IC and it's the character getting hit who rolls, not whoever is going to take the hit. Should have been a 4+.

Read previous posts much?

So to recap:

Draigo can't switch powers
The Model shot can use LOS, not some model 6" away
The Paladin can LOS, but on a 4+
And FnP is not a save.

Does this sound right?

Short answer: No.

Also if the lascannon shot hit draigo you cant use his invulnerable save and then if he fails it use Lo,S!.
when using models with diferent saves Lo,S! is done before the saving throw.

I knew there had to be something wrong with what I was doing, my opponent only put a single wound on Draigo the whole game with that setup.

I was under the impression that with the LOS rolls that the character that would be taking the wound would be the one needing to roll, kind of a check to see if that model could jump in the way or not. I'll reread it and see if I can figure that out better for myself.

The switching powers thing is important too since both my opponent and I were switching out powers for models that couldn't do it, so that will certainly put a damper on my invincible Draigo.

Thanks guys!