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I don't have a rulebook available right now, so if it's clearly explained please just give me the page reference and I will read the entry when I get my turn with the communal book(my group is full of cheap bastards...but then again 75$ for the damn thing is criminal) .

To put this question into a hypothetical scenario: say my guard blob of about 50 men gets charged by some khorne berzerkers. My guards hold for a turn, but I know they are going to be destroyed on my opponents next turn... Could I fire a basilisk barrage into the fray, targeting friend and foe alike?

It seems to me that if artillery can scatter onto models locked in combat it should be able to target them directly too.

Follow the rules for shooting and ask yourself if you are able to target a unit locked in CC?

-No.

No, you can never target a unit that is locked in combat. The can only scatter accidentally into the combat.

So you could target a vehicle thats right next to the combat as long as the blast isn't directly over anyone involved and hope for it to scatter.

But no, no deliberate targeting. The rules are quite clear on this. Feel free to put something in Proposed Rules.

Okay, that's a bummer. Thanks for the quick reply though.

And just to clear up another potential confusion point... In 40K terms, Basilisks are not artillery. 'Artillery' is a specific unit type consiisting of a field gun and one or more crewmembers.