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I'll try to explain as clear as possible here, but its a bit confusing. Using the posable apocalypse barrage template, can only model under the blast template be removed as casualities? For example, a unit of 10 models is targeted by a posable apocalyptic Barrage. After rolling to hit and rolling to see which of the numbered blasts are causing wounds only 7 of the ten models in the target unit are hit, but they are each hit 3 times. The attacker then rolls 21 dice to wound resulting in the target unit taking 12 wounds. Would only 7 models be removed or would the wounds spill over to the models not under the blast template removing the entire unit?(assuming they had no saves)


I hope this is clear enough to be understood. Thanks for any help!

Barrages, and indeed, all Blast markers, are tools to determine the number of hits the attack generates, and do not limit what models are hit.

This is most obvious with a non-Barrage Blast, as it could hit three models at the back of a 10-man unit, but the ones removed as casualties are the three at the front.

Barrages are less "realism breaking", but still follow wound allocation rules - with the exception of coming from the center of the blast instead of the firing unit.

Taking the Apocalyptic Barrage (the clover-shaped one), say you had a unit of ten models, with three under the center portion of the marker and three under marker number 2. If you only ever rolled to hit marker 2, the first casualties would still be those in the center portion regardless of whether they are in the circle marked "2".

The pose-able one is slightly more complicated - it's rules were written for 6th edition, where each marker is treated individually, something that was removed from 7th's multiple Barrages to prevent the massive note-taking required to resolve it. Even then it is possible (though more unlikely) to wound a model not covered by any blast marker.