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Just to be sure i understand only 1 bomb can ever be dropped per turn?

just curious since several bombers have 6+ bombs which means you have way more bombs than you can ever use. which seems odd

 tenebre wrote:
Just to be sure i understand only 1 bomb can ever be dropped per turn?

just curious since several bombers have 6+ bombs which means you have way more bombs than you can ever use. which seems odd

I don't have the rule in front of me, but I'm pretty sure if you check the rules it says to drop "a" bomb over "a" unit that you passed over - which implies singular usage per turn.

Also, having 6 bombs means that if you enter the battlefield turn 2, you'd be out of bombs on turn 7 - the longest most games go. However, just because the missions listed are all "ends at the end of turn 7", doesn't mean that all your missions must end then! You can have games that go on many more turns if you so wish.

 Yarium wrote:

 tenebre wrote:
Just to be sure i understand only 1 bomb can ever be dropped per turn?

just curious since several bombers have 6+ bombs which means you have way more bombs than you can ever use. which seems odd

I don't have the rule in front of me, but I'm pretty sure if you check the rules it says to drop "a" bomb over "a" unit that you passed over - which implies singular usage per turn.

Also, having 6 bombs means that if you enter the battlefield turn 2, you'd be out of bombs on turn 7 - the longest most games go. However, just because the missions listed are all "ends at the end of turn 7", doesn't mean that all your missions must end then! You can have games that go on many more turns if you so wish.

yeah i figured that but some stuff like ork bombers end up off the board a couple times and their bug boy has 22 bombs

Vehicles with bombs can only drop them once per turn. So yes, some bombers will never run out of ammo

The rule is quite specific: "a model can only drop one Bomb in its movement phase."

So, yeah having 6 or more bombs is completely pointless without either additional rules that allow extra bombs dropped or multiple different bombs(for versatility).

Do, why is an Ork bommer able to take up to 16 bombs? Or is a super-heavy flyer able to drop more then one bomb a turn?

Singleton Mosby wrote:
Do, why is an Ork bommer able to take up to 16 bombs? Or is a super-heavy flyer able to drop more then one bomb a turn?

Yes, this is probably a left-over intention from Forgeworld and the old Apocalypse book, before 6th and 7th Editions came out.

If using Super-heavies from Forgeworld, the best would be to email them and find out, the responses are usually very good.

The Forge world bombers have different bomb rules than the 40k ones. FW allows the player to drop as many bombs during a single bomb run as the bomber is equipped with. 40k is just 1. It used to be that your bomber had to have a special rule for it. Then FW basically said its all their bombers. I'm away from my library so I can provide you with a page reference for the rules, but if I had to guess its most likely in the airplane book from FW.


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 Glitcha wrote:
The Forge world bombers have different bomb rules than the 40k ones. FW allows the player to drop as many bombs during a single bomb run as the bomber is equipped with. 40k is just 1. It used to be that your bomber had to have a special rule for it. Then FW basically said its all their bombers. I'm away from my library so I can provide you with a page reference for the rules, but if I had to guess its most likely in the airplane book from FW.

According to my battle scirbe should be pages 41-42 of the Aeronautica book for the orks.

 Glitcha wrote:
The Forge world bombers have different bomb rules than the 40k ones. FW allows the player to drop as many bombs during a single bomb run as the bomber is equipped with. 40k is just 1. It used to be that your bomber had to have a special rule for it. Then FW basically said its all their bombers. I'm away from my library so I can provide you with a page reference for the rules, but if I had to guess its most likely in the airplane book from FW.

The Ork bombers are in Volume 8, but i don't think that has the "Multiple bombs per Turn" Rule you're referring to ?

It'd be nice to know when you find it


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 Glitcha wrote:
According to my battle scirbe should be pages 41-42 of the Aeronautica book for the orks.

Ah thanks, and that's in addition to "standard" 40k Rules?

I mean: It starts off with something like "These Rules replace the BrB" or something similar?

 Glitcha wrote:
FW allows the player to drop as many bombs during a single bomb run as the bomber is equipped with.

No such rule exists. Some FW units have bombs with a special rule that says "you can drop more than one as a multiple-shot barrage" and essentially treats the multiple one-shot weapons as a single bomb with multiple templates, but that only applies to the bombs with that rule. Any FW bomb without the special rule is limited to one per turn just like every other bomb.

 Peregrine wrote:

No such rule exists. Some FW units have bombs with a special rule that says "you can drop more than one as a multiple-shot barrage" and essentially treats the multiple one-shot weapons as a single bomb with multiple templates, but that only applies to the bombs with that rule. Any FW bomb without the special rule is limited to one per turn just like every other bomb.

Like the Marauder Heavy bomber. That would make the Ork Bommer kinda useless with its 16 bombs. Luckily mine is a Blasta bomber and will fit it out with 4 regular and two grot-bombs.

So we agreed on house ruling if its barrage you can drop X number of bombs in a run creating it to be barrage x

The marauder bomber has 2 types of bombs. heavy and hellstorm. it has 12 heavy bombs, and 2 hellstorm. On turn one you can drop 1 to 12 heavy bombs, and only 1 hellstorm bomb.

All good and we'll, but that still does not allow the Ork Bommer to drop more then one of its (potentially) 16 bombs.
How will it work if I take the load out with 4 bombs and 2 grot bombs. Does this allow me to drop a bomb and 'shoot' the two grot bombs during the same turn? Or is it one of either the grot bombs or normal bombs?

Here's a link to my Ork Bommer. I've made the model but am not exactly certain how to use it.