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I am starting a minions army using grave walker and i was wondering if i 'killed' a scrap thrall then moved to make an attack, could i make it blow up?

What do you mean? If it is ever destroyed, it explodes on Boxed. I am not sure hwo you can destroy it, move (I assume via a spell cast) and then destroy it again.

And stuff.

I suppose you could throw it into an enemy jack and hope it dies from the impact, and thus explode in the enemies face.

And you could attack your own Thrall and make it explode. Assumedly when it was surrounded by enemies.

I think its a spell, or if not use some 'jack moves like throw to get it to blow up. If its just a spell then yes you can blow it up

It is the Bone Shaker spell that he is talking about.

"When this spell boxes a living or undead non-warcaster, non-warlock enemy warrior model, you can immediately make a full advance with the enemy model followed by a normal melee attack, then the boxed model is removed from play. The boxed model cannot be targeted by free strikes during this movement."

The Scrap Thrall Thrall Bomb
"When this model is disabled, center a 4" AOE on it and then remove this model from play."

From the way I am reading these that if Grave Walker boxes a Scrap Thrall with his spell then the player can immediately move than attack with the Thrall. This is where a normal model would the removed from play but the Thrall Bomb then stated that when this model is disabled it blows up and then removed from play.

I think the key thing to figure out is when the Scrap Thrall is removed from play. Honestly I think that the model is still active till the bone shaker spell has completed it's activation of the mini, then it is disabled which triggers the Thrall Bomb.

Order of the action:
1.) Bone Shaker boxes the Scrap Thrall
2.) The spell triggers movement and attack
3.) Miniature would normally be removed because it is now disabled
4.) Scrap Thrall is disabled which triggers Thrall Bomb
5.) BOOM!

This is how I see it and I think this is what he is thinking. That is alot to get a POW 8 4" AOE.

So only useful for clearing out infantry. Not a bad use of it, assuming you can get 4-5 models in that AOE.

The way i understand it, when the Thrall Bomb is disabled, it is removed from play without being boxed or destroyed, so Bone Shaker (or Crevasse,...) would not trigger.

Pg 66 : Disabled, then Boxed, then Destroyed, then Removed from play.

Arkon has it right. No arc node from a scrap thrall.

Nope you guy are right. Got home and read my rule book. War Room is great but their reference section needs some work.

If bone shaker kills a Scrap Thrall then it would blow up right then.

Disable then Boxed is the order.