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PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS A DEBATE ABOUT IF THE SHIELDS ARE A VEHICLE OR NOT!

Group has decided to treat it like a vehicle because it just makes sense. Therefore assume all mechanics work against it.

So the situation was how to handle the resolution of the Shield with one unit shooting at it, especially with different weapon types.

Example 1) A Space Marine Tac Squad with a Meltagun burns out the last shield point. Do the Bolters still get to fire against the original unit? Or do they all go against the shield as if it were there?

Example 2) A unit of Destroyer Weapons hits the shield. Do we Roll all the hits separately until the shield burns out, or do all of the hits go against the shield.

Example 3) Gauss. Like Destroyer weapons, do we just roll the dice one at a time until the shield burns out or roll en masse to pop it open for the next unit(s) to get through.

You target a unit inside the shield.

The shooting is resolved at the shield until its gone

your target was the guys inside in the first place so you can shoot the bolters at the guys inside.

If you directly only targeted the shield first then no go IIRC.

If you go to shoot the guys inside the void shield, you go like any normal shooting and do it by groups of weapons. If you decided you wanted to do your bolt guns first then they fire and can't glance the shield so they do nothing, then you fire the melta guns and get rid of it with the first one and the second one goes through and wounds a guy. If you did the melta's first then the bolters then the bolters would be able to do something against the marines.

You would allocate the destroyer hits and gauss one at a time till the shield is gone.

@Desubot: I'm pretty sure you can't choose to target the void shield. You can target something protected by a void shield, such as a building or a squad on its battlements, or the void shield generator and things inside the bubble shield. But not the void shield directly.