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When I assault a vehicle in a squadron, and cause a bunch of damage, does that damage spill over to vehicles I'm not in contact with?

For example, I charge a three vehicle leman russ squadron with a mob of boyz, I make it into base contact with two vehicles, but not the third. I cause 5 glances and 2 pens (with the klaw). This is a total of 7 HP knocked off, assuming nothing explodes. that's enough to at least wreck two of the three vehicles, so would the last russ get damaged?

Apologies in advance if this is stupidly simple.

What does the Squadron rules state to do with Extra Pen/glances in this case?

Check out the Vehicle Squadrons rules on page 79 of the Rulebook, it has a section dealing with how to deal with squadrons in the assault phase.

Basically, the hits are generated against the vehicle unit, exactly like an infantry unit, but how those hits gets resolved is a bit differently to avoid the scenario of rolling all the armour pen rolls at the same time and getting, say, 1 "Explodes" and 2 glances - did the explosion happen first or was it the third hit against that vehicle?

 Quanar wrote:
Check out the Vehicle Squadrons rules on page 79 of the Rulebook, it has a section dealing with how to deal with squadrons in the assault phase.

Basically, the hits are generated against the vehicle unit, exactly like an infantry unit, but how those hits gets resolved is a bit differently to avoid the scenario of rolling all the armour pen rolls at the same time and getting, say, 1 "Explodes" and 2 glances - did the explosion happen first or was it the third hit against that vehicle?

The question here is that even when you rol one at a time, what happens to extra hits once the vehicle you're in contact with explodes?

Let's say a unit of wraiths assaults a six unit strong tank regiment. 12 penetrating hits. First two tanks are blown up. Now wraiths aren't in base contact with anyone. Where do the 10 extra hits go? Do they jump five inches from where wraiths are to the next tank?

You keep on rolling, as the Squadron rules tell you. They all still happen.

nosferatu1001 wrote:
You keep on rolling, as the Squadron rules tell you. They all still happen.

Next sub question - at what point do they start jumping? Wrecked or Explodes? Or can I assume a tank with disabled guns that's also immobile can be skipped?

Ffyllotek wrote:

nosferatu1001 wrote:
You keep on rolling, as the Squadron rules tell you. They all still happen.

Next sub question - at what point do they start jumping? Wrecked or Explodes? Or can I assume a tank with disabled guns that's also immobile can be skipped?

You always allocate to the closest vehicle. so you keep allocating hits until the closest vehicle is dead.

What constitutes dead? Wrecked? Immobilised?

0 HP is "dead".

 Hanskrampf wrote:
0 HP is "dead".

So not wrecked then...

Ffyllotek wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
0 HP is "dead".

So not wrecked then...

Don't be so pedantic you know what he means.

Ffyllotek wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
0 HP is "dead".

So not wrecked then...

0HP gives a wrecked result. So that is technically correct.

WRecked or Explodes is a dead vehicle, as the rules are pretty clear on.

Thanks guys!