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Hi there, so I've been reading through the wound allocation rules for 7th edition and I'm still a little confused how it works, so I was hoping someone could guide me through the process.

Specifically my confusion arises when the rending or bladestorm abilities come into play against multi-profile targets. i.e. Who the 6s are assigned to matter.

Lets say some Dire Avengers are shooting into a squad of Necron Warriors wherein lies a lord with sempiternal weave. The closest 5 necron targets are standard warriors and the 6th is the lord.
The Dire Avengers roll their to-hit dice for their avenger shuriken catapults, they get a total of 16 hits.
Next up comes the to-wound rolls.

Now because of the avengers bladestorm rule it is going to matter if the elder player rolls any sixes, where those 6s get assigned matters, as they will want to make the most of it to bypass sempiternal on the lords.

So, does the player first roll 5 of the 16 dice, and keep rolling dice thereafter 1 by 1 until the first 5 warriors have been assigned wounds, followed by rolling 1 dice at a time until at least a single wound is allocated to the lord?
If this is true, does the necron player make his save before further wounds are allocated. For example, by the time we get to the lord, lets say the elder player rolls a 5 (enough to wound th lord, but not enough to activate bladestorm). Does the necron player then make a save, and if it succeeds, the elder player may continue to attempt to assign wounds to the lord until he falls over (hoping to roll a 6), or does the save come later, and so the elder player is 'stuck' assigning that to-wound-roll-of-5 to the lord.

Perhaps the eldar player just rolls all 16 dice, and there is some way of determining who gets to assign the 6s in the wound pool to certain models.

Generally if someone could run me through how it works that'd be much appreciated. I'm reading the rules, but I don't quite understand the bit that covers when you fire into multi-profile units.

No.

the rules for shooting and allocating are simple. if its just dire avengers shooting all the same weapon, he shoots all the guns at once, then rolls to wound and you start to rolls saves. the shooter chooses witch ap you roll first. thats it.

the new rules for shooting covers this. Weapons with special rules that activate on certain to wound rolls (Rending, Distort, etc.) get separated into different wound pools based on the rules in effect for those shots. Then the shooter chooses which wound pool to allocate first.