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Hi,

A question arrived during my last game.
An opponent's FMC flied past one of my unit and exited the table.
Should he be allowed to vector strike or not?
As i did not find anything that would prevent it i said yes but am still wondering.

This is a heated debate, but the only requirement to trigger vector strike is to move over a unit which certainly has happened and there is no over arching rule saying special rules can't activate or resolve while off the table

Interesting thought. I will need to review the rules even more, particularly seeing it uses random allocation methods, to see if it makes any mention on how the wound are allocated. Then I will need to see how wound allocation is resolved for special rules that may fall outside of the assault or shooting phase rules. Just something else to add to the things I need to review when I am back at the books.

All just to answer 'does it require line of sight to allocate wounds?'

Well, Vector strike doesn't state that it requires you to be on the board or have line of sight, and you already have permission to allocate wounds via the Vector Strike rules, so I'd say yes, you can still allocate them even if the FMC/Heldrake has died/left the board.

JinxDragon wrote:
Interesting thought. I will need to review the rules even more, particularly seeing it uses random allocation methods, to see if it makes any mention on how the wound are allocated. Then I will need to see how wound allocation is resolved for special rules that may fall outside of the assault or shooting phase rules. Just something else to add to the things I need to review when I am back at the books.

All just to answer 'does it require line of sight to allocate wounds?'

no, vector strike allocates wounds randomly (ala FAQ)

JinxDragon wrote:
All just to answer 'does it require line of sight to allocate wounds?'

using standard allocation yes.
Using random allocation, no.