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Let's say you have 3 guys with lascannons shooting at a vehicle

2 of them can see 100% of the vehicle, and 1 of them can has his shot obscured 25%.

Does the tank get a cover save from just the one shot, or since he's obscured to 33% of the squad does he get a save from all 3 unless I only shoot the two that can see?

Page 18. If the target qualifies for a cover save from at least ONE firer, it gets the cover save.

This is a change from 5th; in 5th you had to have cover from the perspective of half or more of the firers.

To combat that, you can always choose for some models to not fire.

If you had 5 guys with lascannons, and only 1 has an obscured view... just don't have him shoot, and the other 4 would not have to worry about cover saves.

Mannahnin wrote:Page 18. If the target qualifies for a cover save from at least ONE firer, it gets the cover save.

This is a change from 5th; in 5th you had to have cover from the perspective of half or more of the firers.

Not for vehicles, they have an exception to this rule (p74). You need to be 25% obscured from the majority of firing models that can hurt the vehicle to claim a cover save.

Interesting detail! Nice. I guess this is there to help out units which are firing blast or template weapons at a vehicle with the intent of hurting squads close to it.

So if I have a squad of chosen with a mix of meltas and flamers, and my opponent has a rhino and a squad sheltering behind it, I can use my flamers on the rhino (clipping enemy guys next to it), without them factoring into whether the rhino gets cover from my meltas.

Or if I'm firing a squad of devs with a mix of lascannons and plasmacannons at a land raider or monolith, in the hopes of the plasma hitting guys taking cover next to the vehicle, again the plasma don't factor in on whether it's got cover from my lascannons.

Neat. Not going to come up a lot, but neat.

That is an odd rule.....