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What happens if a zooming Storm Raven is carrying a Dreadnought and gets blown out of the sky, scatters and the dreadnought in its rear clutches also explodes? In this case on a blob on guardsman or boyz whatever you prefer to kill.

I don't think so, as the explosion would happen before the dreadnought is actually on the table, so nothing would be able to be hit by it. HIWPI however, is disembark it prior to resolving the hit on the dreadnought, although my way is not RAW.

What that Happy guy above said is what I say too.

As above, it happens before the Dreadnought is on the table so nothing can be within D6" of it.

Edit: Beat me to it

If it survives the newly minted FAQ Str 10 hit on Rear Armor for being in a Exploded Flyer.

Also, if the S10 hit on Rear armor Immobilizes it, it goes down with the ship (IIRC)

Why would it explode? When the SR explodes the dread takes a S10 hit, which causes the loss of a HP due to a glance. Even if it had already lost 2 HP it would only be whole wrecked, but it would not explode.

ianj253 wrote:
Why would it explode? When the SR explodes the dread takes a S10 hit, which causes the loss of a HP due to a glance. Even if it had already lost 2 HP it would only be whole wrecked, but it would not explode.

Because it could potentially be a penetrating hit. If it is and a 6 is rolled, the dreadnought would explode as well.

A STR 10 hit to rear armor 10 is always going to be a penetrating hit.

10+1d6 give a range of 11-16

I thought you only added d6 to STR if it was a weapon that hit?

No, you always do that when a vehicle is hit with anything with a strength value. Its called rolling for armor penetration. You roll a d6 and add the strength of the attack, if you equal the armor you glance, it you surpass you penetrate.

I know what an armor penetration roll is, but apparently you only get to add the D6 and the STR of the weapon if it's an attack. However, this is not an attack it's explosion from your own craft.

Previously I would have thought you added a d6, but a few months back I started a thread about Immoteks lightning hitting flyers, and some argued that you only get to add d6 and STR for weapons.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/480037.page

ianj253 wrote:
I know what an armor penetration roll is, but apparently you only get to add the D6 and the STR of the weapon if it's an attack. However, this is not an attack it's explosion from your own craft.

Previously I would have thought you added a d6, but a few months back I started a thread about Immoteks lightning hitting flyers, and some argued that you only get to add d6 and STR for weapons.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/480037.page

The D6 only if it is a weapon is silly RAW (Strictly/Technically it is that way, but that breaks many mechanics).

The reason it came up in that thread is because people were trying to say that the lightning is not an attack. So the rebuttal is if it is not an attack it can not add the str of the weapon to the pen roll which is 1D6. Which is of course silly.

All right, makes sense then. I just read a few comments in there and thought that was the way it was supposed to be.