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I had an interesting problem come up this weekend in a friendly game. The short version is my Skitarii Vanguard shot radium carbines into a bunch of T7 gribblies.

Regular S3 weapons cannot actually wound T7, but radium weapons have that neat rule of a 'To Wound' roll of 6 causing 2 wounds, regardless of Toughness.

Now, my opponent argued that since S3 cannot wound T7, I literally do not get a 'To Wound' roll, meaning there's no chance for me to roll my lucky sixes.

That seems counter-intuitive to the flavor of the rule, but I can't find the way it should be RAW. Obviously, I would prefer to wound T7 twice on sixes.

I'm having trouble finding clarity on the matter. Can my dakka friends help me out?

Thank you!

The number indicated on the chart is the minimum result on a D6 needed to convert the hit into a Wound. A value of '-' indicates that the target cannot be wounded by the attack.

Nowhere does it say, that you stop your Shooting Sequence here. If your weapons would be S3 without any special rule, you still could insist on rolling your wound rolls. But you have a special rule, so roll To Wound as normal and only count the sixes per your special rule.

Vanguard are very good against things like Wraithknights for this very reason.


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Dragoons with radium jezzails are also very good against them, since any 6 also Rends.

Thank you folks, this was exactly my thinking. I appreciate the quick response!

 NobledukeofGork wrote:
Thank you folks, this was exactly my thinking. I appreciate the quick response!

Just to help with the argument: Rending works just the same: It always wounds on a 6, even if it couldn't normally. And a S3 Rending weapon is even capable of glancing and penetrating a vehicle, even though "naturally" it could only glance AV9 - but with a 6 you're looking at 10-12 as a result, so you can hurt most vehicles.

What you are really looking at is that last line: .regardless of Toughness".

You have to roll a 6 to wound to get that effect and a 6 will wound anything that has a 6+ or better on the to-wound chart. So if you had to roll a 6 in order to wound anyways that bit of the rule would be useless.