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I've read a number of forum threads discussing whether a model gets 'look out sir' against a vindicare assassin's 'deadshot' special rule, and the overwhelming consensus seems to be yes, which is a decision I'm perfectly happy to go along with, because in exchange he get's to pop land raiders even more often e.t.c. But in a game I played recently my opponent argued that he should get LoS against my vindicare (fine) but also that his focused witchfire ignored LoS (It was the awesome head-explodey one). Whilst both of these make perfect sense from a fluff perspective (how would your comrade protect you from a nasty case of exploding head? ) the wording for 'deadshot' seems very similar to the wording for focused witchfire. Is there anywhere where this is explicitly cleared up?

Thanks in advance!

I believe you are talking about haemorrhage. That is a completely different case than the vindi. Deadshot allows the controlling player to allocate the wound and LoS gives permission for wounds to be reallocated. So it's OK.

Haemorrhage on the other hand makes the model take a T test and if it fails it SUFFERS a wound. That is the difference. That wound was never allocated and so LoS cannot reallocate it.

Ah, I see. The focused witchfire rules never specifically mention allocation. That makes sense. Still a little confusing, but I think I understand how it gets around LoS now. Thanks.

Oh, and it was called 'Spontaneous Combustion' from pyromancy. I love that power.

< Taken by the void dragon. >

Yes, LoS comes after allocation. It doesn't matter how the wound was allocated.

 Che-Vito wrote:
So a Vindicare's shot, or Precision Shots can be reallocated via Look Out Sir?

Yes to both. Vindicare got nerfed pretty heavily in 6e.