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Hi.

A group of SM scouts with Telion will get a 2+ cover save behind an Aegis line. If I have the scouts control the Aegis Quad gun, and the gun is targeted and takes a wound (I believe it is T7 2 wounds), it is my understanding that members of the unit are removed before the actual artillery piece is removed. Does this effectively mean that it is possible to ignore the 2+ cover save of the unit by constantly targeting the quad gun (and thus reduce the save to a 4+ cover save) ?

Also, if Telion is manning the weapon, is he the first casualty if it takes a wound or can I pick a different member of the unit not touching the weapon, or perhaps look out sir ?

Thanks

Quad gun isn't an Artillary piece, so the Scouts would not be removed first.

snaggled wrote:
Hi.

A group of SM scouts with Telion will get a 2+ cover save behind an Aegis line. If I have the scouts control the Aegis Quad gun, and the gun is targeted and takes a wound (I believe it is T7 2 wounds), it is my understanding that members of the unit are removed before the actual artillery piece is removed. Does this effectively mean that it is possible to ignore the 2+ cover save of the unit by constantly targeting the quad gun (and thus reduce the save to a 4+ cover save) ?

Also, if Telion is manning the weapon, is he the first casualty if it takes a wound or can I pick a different member of the unit not touching the weapon, or perhaps look out sir ?

Thanks

I could be wrong, but I believe the Gun Emplacement and Scout unit are separate. A Scout can choose to simply fire it instead of using his own weapon, assuming he is in base to base contact. Someone can only shoot the scout unit OR the Gun Emplacement.

also,

Even if it was part of the unit for wound allocation purposes, you would still need to allocate any wounds to the closest model to the firing unit.

The gun is a separate unit that is targetted separately