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I'll cut straight to the chase- can my Orks ally in some Inquisitors and use their servo skulls to reduce my Stormboy'z scatter?

The relevant rule reads, "Are not counted as being friendly units for the targeting of psychic powers, abilities, and so on"

Do we read that as, targetting of psychic powers, abilities, and other targeted things

OR

As (targeting of psychic powers), (abilities), (other friendly things like servo skulls).

My stormboyz eagerly await community adjudication.

Check the rules for servo-skulls. They only work for friendly units and would be covered by the "... and so on" part of the rule in any case. Your stormboyz would not benefit.

Ok, so that would read the rule with "friendly" being the operative term, and "targeting" being one specific instance. That makes sense, and is kinda what I expected. *sigh*. I guess surgical precision was never really that orky anyway.

Surgical precision for orks means within a foot or so, with lots of screaming. Then add more nailz

Well for one servo skulls are not units they are counters. You would have to read their entry in the GK codex to see if the counter only affects GKs, friendly, or all.

I am fairly certain it says friendly tho.

Servo skulls definitely only work for friendly units. My question was whether desperate allies do not count as friendly for ALL purposes, or just for targeting powers/abilities/etc.