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When swooping or zooming this model may savage its prey. At the end of the movement phase, nominate one enemy unit not locked in combat that the model has moved over that turn. that unit takes 1 hit (if the unit is an enemy flyer in zoom mode, or an enemy swooping flying monstrous creature, it instead takes D3 hits). unless stated otherwise vector strike hits are resolved at models's unmodified strength and AP2, using random allocation. these hits do not benefit from any models special rules, such as furious charge, poisoned rending, etc. against vehicles these hits are resolved against the targets side armour.

FMC are swooping, and have model strength.

flyers are zooming (ex Tau sun shark bomber) no model strength.

Am i missing something here?
are there some flyers that have strength?

Helldrake has a special rule that allows it to vector strike iirc.

Don't think other fliers can however.

 Wolfblade wrote:
Helldrake has a special rule that allows it to vector strike iirc.

Don't think other fliers can however.

Thanks man, appreciate the help


Edit: so just to be clear only fmc can use this? ( all fmc from nids) and ships from SM, necron etc.. cannot?

Meteoric Descent

Yes, Vector Strike is a rule for FMCs and GFMCs. Flyers do not get it, with the exception of the Heldrake with the Meteoric Descent special rule.

They've essentially written themselves a backdoor in case of newer models with strength values (like a flying dreadnought or something)

Additionally, even though Heldrakes don't have a strength stat, Meteoric Descent grants them S7 Vector Strike.