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I am missing something and can't find my answer to this:

If you have a Dreadnought in a Stormraven and the Stormraven is destroyed, do you roll a 1 to see if the Dreadnought is slain?

Sort of. You roll a die for each model that is forced to disembark. For each roll of "1", a model of your choice is slain. So if the Dreadnaught is the only model being transported by a Stormraven, and the Stormraven is destroyed, then yes, there's a chance for the Dreadnaught to be destroyed too. When you have a squad of guys plus a Dreadnaught... far less chance the Dreadnaught goes kablooey.

A quick search of the related books has not brought to light an exception for Dreadnoughts, so they are susceptible to being slain.

 Yarium wrote:
Sort of. You roll a die for each model that is forced to disembark. For each roll of "1", a model of your choice is slain. So if the Dreadnaught is the only model being transported by a Stormraven, and the Stormraven is destroyed, then yes, there's a chance for the Dreadnaught to be destroyed too. When you have a squad of guys plus a Dreadnaught... far less chance the Dreadnaught goes kablooey.

Why is there less of a chance? Are you allowed to select which models are removed?
The way I've been doing it is rolling a dice for each model. Not a handful of dice for all the models.

From 'Transports', page 183 of the main rulebook:

... you must then roll one dice for each model you just set up on the battlefield. For each roll of 1, a model that disembarked (your choice) is slain.

So yes, you have been doing it wrong.

They changed it specifically because you can have multiple units in transports now, and that special characters are separate units. To avoid all transports basically saying "We have a 1/6 chance of killing your 400 point warlord", you roll a pool and get to choose who dies, rather than rolling for each individual model.

I like to think of it as the marines who just fell out of the exploding stormraven breaking the dreadnoughts fall. Lucky for the dreadnought, not so lucky for the marine he landed on.

Azuza001 wrote:
I like to think of it as the marines who just fell out of the exploding stormraven breaking the dreadnoughts fall. Lucky for the dreadnought, not so lucky for the marine he landed on.

A true cavalier allways "backs up" his Dreadnough brother.