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Simple question I hope.

Necron Abyssal Staff is a S8 Template weapon that is compared to the targets leadership instead of toughness when rolling to wound.

If it causes an unsaved wound on a T4 creature would it count as an instant kill or would the double toughness clause be applied to leadership in this case?

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m3180057a_Necrons_v1.4_APRIL13.pdf

Q: When using an abyssal staff, do you use the target’s Toughness or
Leadership for the purposes of working out if Instant Death applies?
(p84)
A: You use the target’s Leadership.

I must have missed that while looking over the FAQ. Sorry about such and Thanks!

Given that equivalents to this rules issue have been floating around since mid-third edition, and every single one sooner or later gets FAQ'd to the same answer, why hasn't this been made into a general rule or at least inserted into new versions of the same effect? Usually they get tired of writing the same FAQ entries over and over again.

They had a memory dump?

Clarification of redundant fuzzy areas has never been a GW strength.

hehe, no need to qualify. "Clarity" has never been GW's strong point to begin with, let alone correcting ambiguous rules.