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can his number 6 effect hit flyers?

 forchoas wrote:
can his number 6 effect hit flyers?

Can it be fired as a snap shot?

 DeathReaper wrote:

 forchoas wrote:
can his number 6 effect hit flyers?

Can it be fired as a snap shot?

Nope

it doesnt need to it says at the end of his shooting phase and a model takes d3 hits

 forchoas wrote:
it doesnt need to it says at the end of his shooting phase and a model takes d3 hits

Then I direct you to the FaQ about Zooming Flyers:

Q: How do maelstroms, novas and beams – or indeed any weapon
that doesn’t need to roll To Hit or hits automatically – interact with
Zooming Flyers and Swooping Flying Monstrous Creatures? (p13)
A: Only Snap Shots can hit Zooming Flyers and Swooping
Flying Monstrous Creatures. Therefore, any attacks that use
blast markers, templates, create a line of/area of effect or
otherwise don’t roll to hit cannot target them. This includes
weapons such as the Necron Doom Scythe’s death ray or the
Deathstrike missile of the Imperial Guard, and psychic
powers that follow the rule for maelstroms, beams, and
novas.

Specifically this line: A: Only Snap Shots can hit Zooming Flyers and Swooping
Flying Monstrous Creatures.

So if it is not a snap shot it can not hit a Zooming flyer.

This feels similar to the Necron Lightning strike thing where it's not actually a shooting attack, maelstrom, beam, or any other recognized form of attack, so there might be a loophole for it to be able to hit zooming flyers.

That being said HIWPI is that it isn't able to hit due to what DeathReaper quoted for the FAQ.

in concur with deathreaper the FAQ is clear, autohits should not be able to autohit flyers