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Game rules questions: Ordinance barrage

If a wave serpent "jinks" does an ordinance barrage ignore its cover save?

The ordinance barrage says nothing about gaining the "ignores cover" special rule, it simply says "when determining if a model gets cover..."

The Jink is given regardless of direction of the shots.

Am I off base here in my interpretation of the rules?

There is a sub-forum called "You Make Da Call", which is where you'll get most response for a rules question.

Barrage does not totally negate Cover saves unless it is part of the weapon's rules. It circumvents many cover saves but not those given by: Area Terrain, Jink, Stealth / Shrouded, Wargear (Such as the Ork Kustom Force Field).

Ordnance has no additional bearing on cover saves.

Moved to YMDC.

Nebekkennezzer wrote:
Game rules questions: Ordinance barrage

If a wave serpent "jinks" does an ordinance barrage ignore its cover save?

The ordinance barrage says nothing about gaining the "ignores cover" special rule, it simply says "when determining if a model gets cover..."

The Jink is given regardless of direction of the shots.

Am I off base here in my interpretation of the rules?

Barrage uses where the shot lands to determine LOS-based cover. So if the weapon dos not have the Ignore Cover special rule, you still get non-LOS-based cover.

Barrage itself does not ignore cover. It ignores most line of sight based covers (i.e. ruins) depending on where the blast lands but self-generated ones like stealth, shrouded, exhaust cloud, or jink are not removed.

However a lot of the barrage weapons that are actually used have ignores cover anyway. If it says ignores cover, it removes ALL cover including the previously mentioned self-generated cover saves (and area terrain)