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Ok before everyone jumps on me. I just spent the last 20 min looking through the archives on here for a thread that would answer this with no luck. When rolling double 3's on the shokkattack gun what happens with the template? The scenario is an enemy unit of 5 space marines where the template was centered on the middle guy. The next closest unit is a squad of 30 boyz. The rule says “Resolve this shot upon the nearest unit to the intended target, be it friend or foe.” Codex:Orks p. 35. I believe the intent is that the space marines are a unit and the orks are a unit. So does this mean the template is placed on the nearest ork to the space marines or does it get centered on the boyz as a whole? I assume no scatter at that point as well. And who in Morks name let dat Mek shoot da damn thing anyways?

If the ork unit is the closest unit to the Marine unit (regardless of range or LOS), then the template is placed on the ork unit and then scatters as per the rules for Large Blast weapons.

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It's placed over the Boys unit, you get to decide which exact boy the template is placed over.