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I have a curiosity. I was playing a game yesterday using my Gray Knights vs Eldar. The eldar was running the 3 Falcons in a squadron formation and I had purifiers in an allied drop pod. I got the purifiers near the squadron of vehicles so that they were close to 2 of them. One in the side arc and one in the back. How does my nova effect the cars? We ruled that since I was closer to the vehicle that had it's side facing me, when I used cleansing flame, it couldn't hurt the squadron even though I was behind the other vehicle. HOw would you play it dakka?

The rules for vehicle sqadrons (p79) tell us to allocate hits rather than wounds (as an equivalent to allocating against a normal non-vehicle unit), but otherwise following the normal allocation rules - the nearest visible model to the unit causing the hits.

So if the Falcon closest to the Purifiers would be hit in the side, the hits are allocated there first. As Cleansing Flame doesn't have sufficient strength to harm the side armour, all of the potential hits against the unit are wasted.

To give an inacurate analogy, imagine a unit with no armour saves, joined by an IC with a 2++ re-rollable save - if Tanky McTank is the closest model, it doesn't matter that you'd tear through the rest of the unit, wounds get allocated to him.