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This may have been answered before, but I couldn't find the answer..

Kustom Force Field: If this model is equipped with a kustom force field, friendly <ORK> units that are entirely within 9" have 5+ invulnerable save against ranged weapons. If the Big Bek is embarked, the vehicle transporting it has a 5+ invulnerable save against ranged weapons instead.

Squiggoths and Gargantuan Squiggoths can transport units but do not have the vehicle Keyword. However, the KFF does not use the Keyword vehicles and instead leaves it not bold. And this might be a stretch, but a vehicle is a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart. Additionally, the Big Mek also has another ability Big Mekaniak which does use the Keyword VEHICLE which indicated that they do use that specific key word on certain abilities which they did not on the KFF ability.

This might have been something that is answered in the new Forge World book (which I do not have) but I know that KFF was revised after the 8th edition indexes came out however they did not change the word "vehicle" to a Keyword in the revision.

So does a Big Mek's KFF affect Squiggoths when they are embarked on it?

See, I was of the opinion that a similar issue affected Centurions and Stormravens in the new SM Codex but got told off for it. -shrug-

It does look like that the vehicle in the KFF description should be key-worded, but it isn't. I am guessing they didn't anticipate anything that isn't a vehicle to be able to transport models when writing the rule.

Personally, as it isn't keyworded but just a generic descriptor, I'd say the Squiggoth gets the 5++ save as it is transporting the Mek, much like how the word "hit" in the various Honour Guard's intercept rules is just a generic descriptor and not a rules word.

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