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What do you think?

Is a Gets Hot! Wound a shooting or close combat wound? No. Therefore no LOS. (Same reason why you cannot for PotW).

What did you think a Space Marine Captain would have time to play "Hot Potato" with his command squad before his plasma pistol blew up?
Definitely a no.

A Space Marine Captain would never do that - a Chaos Space Marine captain on the other hand definitely would...

Happyjew wrote:Is a Gets Hot! Wound a shooting or close combat wound? No. Therefore no LOS. (Same reason why you cannot for PotW).

I am not sure on this. First, you dont get los on potw due to no wound ever being allocated. I am pretty sure gets hot does get allocated, so I don't see why you couldnt los a gets hot wound that is allocated to a character. Though I do admit, I have not looked closely at gets hot...

The wording is similar between Gets Hot! and Perils. The model suffers a wound.

No wound is allocated, you just get wounded.

Gets Hot states that a model suffers a wound. It also says that armor saves and invul saves can be taken.

This means that a Gets Hot would is just an "auto-allocated" wound to the model.

A LOS can be made on a wound(or unsaved wound) is allocated to your character or IC.

Probably not what was intended but it fits

40k-noob wrote:Gets Hot states that a model suffers a wound. It also says that armor saves and invul saves can be taken.

This means that a Gets Hot would is just an "auto-allocated" wound to the model.

A LOS can be made on a wound(or unsaved wound) is allocated to your character or IC.

Probably not what was intended but it fits

Perils also says the model suffers a wound. Would you allow that to be LOS'd?

40k-noob wrote:Gets Hot states that a model suffers a wound. It also says that armor saves and invul saves can be taken.

This means that a Gets Hot would is just an "auto-allocated" wound to the model.

Nope. It means exactly what it says, model suffers a wound. No allocation is done and therefore no LoS.

Happyjew wrote:

40k-noob wrote:Gets Hot states that a model suffers a wound. It also says that armor saves and invul saves can be taken.

This means that a Gets Hot would is just an "auto-allocated" wound to the model.

A LOS can be made on a wound(or unsaved wound) is allocated to your character or IC.

Probably not what was intended but it fits

Perils also says the model suffers a wound. Would you allow that to be LOS'd?

I did say it was probably not what was intended but RAW are what they are.

POW says no save of any kind, so I would think that negates a LOS

Except LOS is not a save.

But you can't LoS it because you weren't allocated the Perils or Gets Hot.

Both say the model takes a wound. It bypasses allocation.


And fluffwise, you can't jump in the way of a bad case of exploding ears. Maybe you could justify the Gets Hot LoS, Brother Bob notices the Captain forgot the vent his pistol and grabs the pistol before it overheats. But currently it doesn't work.

Yeah, you can't use LOS on perils or get's hot, as it affects only the offending model.
It explicitly says that; unlike conventional hits that could be allocated against anyone in the squad.

40k-noob wrote:

Happyjew wrote:

40k-noob wrote:Gets Hot states that a model suffers a wound. It also says that armor saves and invul saves can be taken.

This means that a Gets Hot would is just an "auto-allocated" wound to the model.

A LOS can be made on a wound(or unsaved wound) is allocated to your character or IC.

Probably not what was intended but it fits

Perils also says the model suffers a wound. Would you allow that to be LOS'd?

I did say it was probably not what was intended but RAW are what they are.

POW says no save of any kind, so I would think that negates a LOS

Given you made up the "auto allocation" idea, when no wound is EVER allocated, no it IS NOT RAW.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Yeah, you can't use LOS on perils or get's hot, as it affects only the offending model.
It explicitly says that; unlike conventional hits that could be allocated against anyone in the squad.

So one has to roll each plasma shot individually to know which model fired it?

imweasel wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Yeah, you can't use LOS on perils or get's hot, as it affects only the offending model.
It explicitly says that; unlike conventional hits that could be allocated against anyone in the squad.

So one has to roll each plasma shot individually to know which model fired it?

Yes. Just like last edition.

imweasel wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Yeah, you can't use LOS on perils or get's hot, as it affects only the offending model.
It explicitly says that; unlike conventional hits that could be allocated against anyone in the squad.

So one has to roll each plasma shot individually to know which model fired it?

Yes, same as 5th. and 4th.

Just goes to show how little plasma I took in 5th.

I thought this was the case, but others told me otherwise. Ill double check when I get home.