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So I'm a nid player, and thoroughly enjoy casting paroxysm on folk. (Reduces weapon and ballistic skills by D3)

If I reduce them both to 0, what happens? Does it lose the ability to shoot/fight back?


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Sorry I've wrote that really poorly but I think you get the gist. Basically can you still shoot if you're on bs0 or still make attacks in the assault phase on Ws0

If you look up profile characteristics in the Rule Book, it's pretty clear on what happens if either of those is zero.

Ffs, I swear I've looked about 5 times and can't find what I'm after. Just being lazy. Cheers dude

Try Page 9 (i just had a look myself)

Hellraiser 1349 wrote:
So I'm a nid player, and thoroughly enjoy casting paroxysm on folk. (Reduces weapon and ballistic skills by D3)

If I reduce them both to 0, what happens? Does it lose the ability to shoot/fight back?


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Sorry I've wrote that really poorly but I think you get the gist. Basically can you still shoot if you're on bs0 or still make attacks in the assault phase on Ws0

If your WS is 0 you can't strike any blows and you are automatically hit in combat (pg 9, BRB)

If your BS is 0 you are unable to fire a shots (pg 9, BRB)

However, you are playing Paroxysm incorrect.

According to the Malediction rules:

"Note that bonuses and penalties from different maledictions are always cumulative, but cannot, unless otherwise stated, take characteristics above 10 or below 1 (or below 2, in the case of Leadership)."(pg 27, BRB)

Prevents Paroxysm from reducing WS and BS to 0 - the minimum would be one for each characteristic as;

"Paroxysm is a malediction that targets a single enemy unit with 24". While this power is in effect, the target unit's WS and BS are both reduced by D3 (roll one and apply the result to both characteristics)." (pg 69, Codex: Tyranids)

Has no specific wording that states Paroxysm can reduce the WS and BS to 0.