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Hello,

I'm finding it difficult to interpret the wording for the warlord trait: Storm of Fire.

RaW: At the start of each of your Shooting phases nominate one friendly unit withint 12" of your Warlord that is drawn from the same Chapter as your Warlord. That unit's ranged weapons have the Rending special rule until the end of the turn.

My questions:

1, a, Can Tigurius target himself?
b, if he can, would a non ultramarine squad he is attached to gain rending?

2 a, Can Tigurius target an ultramarine independant character, other than himself, that is attached to a non ultramarine squad?
b, if so would the squad with the ultramarine character gain rending?

3, Alternatively could Tigurius target the entire squad of non ultramarines that contains an ultramarine independant character giving them all rending?

Thank you for any help!

For everything except 1.A, whenever a unit has models from two different chapters together, their chapter tactics cancel each other out and count as being from neither chapter, so Tigurius would not be able to target them at all with this ability.

The specific quote is

" If a unit contains models drawn from two different Chapters, it counts as from neither Chapter, and thus benefits from neither Chapter Tactic"

As for whether or not Tigurius can target himself, I'm unsure. I completely forgot if it's possible or not, but I don't have the page reference memorized and can't be bothered to look it up atm.

I think it's fairly commonly accepted that a model's unit counts as being within 12" of itself.

Thanks for the replys

@Mecha

Those seem like clear cut rules for combined space marine chapters. But I am specifically thinking of an ultramarine independent character attached to an imperial guard squad. Is there any mention of that?

@Mr. Shine.

Upon reading it again I think the language used does make it clear that Tigurius can be nominated. My confusion on that point was from reading it as Tiberius nominated one friendly unit as apposed to the player doing the nominating.

I'm also certain I could target another independent ultramarine character within 12" if he was on his own, just not sure how them being attached to an imperial guard squad would effect things.

electrobolt3 wrote:
I'm also certain I could target another independent ultramarine character within 12" if he was on his own, just not sure how them being attached to an imperial guard squad would effect things.

If joined to an Imperial Guard squad the Ultramarines character would count as part of the Imperial Guard unit for all rules purposes, so it certainly wouldn't be a unit drawn from the same chapter.

Makes sense, thanks for the help.

To clarify,

1. a, He can target a unit he is attached to
b, No, He can't target a unit that isn't completely drawn for Ultramarines

2a, No
B, No