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So a question came up in a combat patrol the other night. I had my eldar against some chaos scum Thousand Suns. Since I am just getting back into the game I do not know all the rules and different characters. So I did not know his unit would be so powerful or i would not have moved at them with my spiders. However His lvl 3 sorcerer targets my warp spiders with a witchfire spell during the psychic phase. Now I asked him "witchfires are shooting attacks correct?", He said Yes, so I said "I am going to flickerjump my spiders out of range(hopefully)". He told me that I could not do that as I can only do that against actual shooting attacks. I disagreed but went with what he said. Now that I have had time to look it up I believe I was right that I can flickerjump when targeted by a whitchfire, and here is why,

"Witchfire powers are shooting attacks. Indeed they are often refereed to as psychic shooting attacks, and have many profiles. Just like when shooting a weapon, you much see the target and cannot be locked in combat."

"Flickerjump- When the unit with this special rule is chosen as a target of a shooting attack, it can immediately make a warp jump moving 2d6".

So based on the witchfire rule that says it is a shooting attack in the first line, and the flickerjump rule that says when they are chosen as a target of a shooting attack they may warp jump, I believe I can flickerjump when targeted with a witchfire. Please discuss or anyone with more information let me know if I am completely wrong in this.

Yes witchfires are shooting attacks to the best of my knowledge and you can flicker jump away from them, other powers like Maledictions cannot but jumped away from but in this case Witchfires can be.

Yeah, I lost the whole unit to psychic shriek, he rolled a 17 on 3d6, and wiped the squad, that is why i was trying to flickerjump them, Thanks!