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Hi,

You know now with wound allocation, the rulebook suggests you keep allocating a wound to the closest model until it dies. So if I have 5 wounds on my squad its possible to just have someone in tank every single hit (potentially)?

So say I take 5 wounds, the closest guy saves one.. does he then have to save another, then say he fails the 2nd wound he dies then it goes onto the next closest until he saves them all or fails one?


Also with power weapons, is anything but a power fist considered a power weapon for point costs in codices? Like does a power sword, power axe, power maul etc all come under the power weapon upgrade for 15 points for example, and a power fist 25 points? Or does an axe or any other count as a fist too?

Thanks!

Your wounds question is answered by the "Allocating Wounds" section on page 25 of your rulebook.

Your power weapon question is answered by the "Power Weapons" section on page 61 of your rulebook.

Yes, but usually you can roll the 5 saves at once and just remove as many as the number of failed saves (only have to be careful when there's LoS! or different saves)

Yes, Axes / Swords / Maces / Lances all fall into the category of Power Weapons in the codex

Thank you!

With Look out sir, can a character stand at the front of his unit and just look out sir every single wound? It seems to read like that to me but that seems a little strong, it allows the defender to choose where every single wound goes (if look out sir is successful of course!) Was this the intention of the rule or am I reading it wrong?

He can't really choose where the wound goes, since it always goes to the model nearest to the character.

Still, wound allocation in CC is a bit of a mess. Unless you roll for each model separately, you end up being able to assign any model in base contact with the enemy unit as the one taking the hits (unless there's one that has taken wounds, in which case technically that guy would be the first to take any hits). And obviously rolling attacks for each model separately would take forever.

With the Errata change to LoS! they nerfed the spread the love tactic to forcing the closest model in the unit to take the wound.