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Hey all,

Playing an AOS game and we ran into an issue.

Basically when someone scores say 3 hits of 3 damage per hit to a unit does the entire unit take 9 damage or do only 3 models take 3 damage each even if they only have 1 wound each.

So, if you scored three hits, you would roll to wound three times. If those three rolls all wound, you would take three saves, and if those all fail then the unit would take 9 total wounds.

Wounds are no longer allocated to individual models such that spillover goes away. They are allocated to the unit as a whole, so a single 3 damage attack can kill 3 one-wound models.
Make sense?

Also I think of those 9 wounds they can only come from models in the attack range... so a model with a 2" attack range can only kill the models in his range, even if he does 9 wounds to the unit. It doesn't transfer to the models in theat unit out of his range.

BAN wrote:
Also I think of those 9 wounds they can only come from models in the attack range... so a model with a 2" attack range can only kill the models in his range, even if he does 9 wounds to the unit. It doesn't transfer to the models in theat unit out of his range.

No. You could houserule that if you wanted, but you inflict wounds on a unit and the owning player can assign wounds to any member of that unit.

We actually joke about this in the shop.... my buddy tended to run 80 Blood Reavers, so for example, my cannon would shoot and do 2 wounds.

The joke here being that through transference of deadly energies, the guys at the BACK for the blob are the ones that explode, everyone else managed to juke, dodge or spin out of the way, or something.

The rules on this are clear, actually.

Is there a source of confusion? I will move it into YMDC.