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htj wrote:Do excess wounds overflow, or do they count towards the combat like in fantasy?

They count towards the combat result, but cannot be inflicted on anything outside of the challenge.
Also, the book says that the combatants in the challenge are no longer counted as being in base contact with anything else in the unit.
And to avoid further confusion, the character that accepts the combat must be moved into base contact with the challenger, regardless of distance, other models or terrain.

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:Do excess wounds overflow, or do they count towards the combat like in fantasy?

They count towards the combat result, but cannot be inflicted on anything outside of the challenge.

That sentence is incorrect - there's no rule forbidding it.

rigeld2 wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:Do excess wounds overflow, or do they count towards the combat like in fantasy?

They count towards the combat result, but cannot be inflicted on anything outside of the challenge.

That sentence is incorrect - there's no rule forbidding it.

No rule, but the models are not in base contact with the other models anymore, and they can't hurt what they can't touch. It's almost treated as a separate assault altogether.

Wrakkar wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:Do excess wounds overflow, or do they count towards the combat like in fantasy?

They count towards the combat result, but cannot be inflicted on anything outside of the challenge.

That sentence is incorrect - there's no rule forbidding it.

No rule, but the models are not in base contact with the other models anymore, and they can't hurt what they can't touch. It's almost treated as a separate assault altogether.

Wound allocation carries over the nearest model not in base contact after all targets in base contact are dead.

Shandara wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:

Wrakkar wrote:

htj wrote:Do excess wounds overflow, or do they count towards the combat like in fantasy?

They count towards the combat result, but cannot be inflicted on anything outside of the challenge.

That sentence is incorrect - there's no rule forbidding it.

No rule, but the models are not in base contact with the other models anymore, and they can't hurt what they can't touch. It's almost treated as a separate assault altogether.

Wound allocation carries over the nearest model not in base contact after all targets in base contact are dead.

working on it...


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You know what, I actually can't find anything that specifically disagrees with you...

Maybe its a balancing factor- you can hold up a character for a turn, but if you are unsuccessful, your character dies earlier, and your squad still takes a pounding...

Testify wrote:
Also I'd like to know how exactly a single man is supposed to delay/distract a charging Deamon of Khorne

Commissar takes a spare skull from the scenery around him (in the grimdark future there are always skulls), ties it to a stick with some string, dangles it in front of the demon while going "who is a good demon, who likes to play with a skull for the skull throne".

Demon now is on his back, batting at the skull with his claws like a kitten, disaster averted.

d-usa wrote:

Testify wrote:
Also I'd like to know how exactly a single man is supposed to delay/distract a charging Deamon of Khorne

Commissar takes a spare skull from the scenery around him (in the grimdark future there are always skulls), ties it to a stick with some string, dangles it in front of the demon while going "who is a good demon, who likes to play with a skull for the skull throne".

Demon now is on his back, batting at the skull with his claws like a kitten, disaster averted.

Lol'd

Wound allocation rules: You keep going from closest (base contact) to farthest (not even engaged in the fight)

That is why the 'overflow' still works.

So does anyone else think that Yarrick is now the High King of Tarpitting?

azazel the cat wrote:So does anyone else think that Yarrick is now the High King of Tarpitting?

I'd go with Crowe tbh
I get back down, but I get up again, you aint ever gonna keep me down...

azazel the cat wrote:So does anyone else think that Yarrick is now the High King of Tarpitting?

Ahh, yes. But he only revives on the start of his turn, like the crons.

Crowe doesn't get back up...

Crons would at the end of the phase, so if you challenge with an Lord, then Rez Orb successfully, you have a 50% chance of not losing the model in the challenges. Leading to MCs being locked in combat for ages with a unit. As long as they make their Ld rolls, at least.