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New to 40k, had this come up in my last game.

I flew a unit of 3 deffkoptas over a 5 man squad of space marines and had each drop its bombs on the unit. My thought was that each one had a bomm so each could drop one and cause 5 rolls, for 15 total roles.

My opponent said that I could only force a max of 5 rolls, as that is the size of the unit.

Bigbomm: A Deffkopta equipped with a bigbomm can drop it as it flies over enemy units in the movement phase. After the Deffkopta has moved, pick one enemy unit that it flew over. Then, roll a d6 for each model in the enemy unit(up to a maximum of 5 dice). For each roll of a 5+, the target unit suffers 1 mortal wound. It can only do this once per battle.


Would like to get a ruling on this as I am playing him again tonight, thanks guys

pokeyloams wrote:
New to 40k, had this come up in my last game.

I flew a unit of 3 deffkoptas over a 5 man squad of space marines and had each drop its bombs on the unit. My thought was that each one had a bomm so each could drop one and cause 5 rolls, for 15 total roles.

My opponent said that I could only force a max of 5 rolls, as that is the size of the unit.

Bigbomm: A Deffkopta equipped with a bigbomm can drop it as it flies over enemy units in the movement phase. After the Deffkopta has moved, pick one enemy unit that it flew over. Then, roll a d6 for each model in the enemy unit(up to a maximum of 5 dice). For each roll of a 5+, the target unit suffers 1 mortal wound. It can only do this once per battle.


Would like to get a ruling on this as I am playing him again tonight, thanks guys

Your opponent is wrong. Each Bigbomm rolls totally independently from each other. By his logic a unit of Marines with Bolters only rolls 1 roll to hit because Bolters are Rapid Fire 1.

You have three totally independent rules telling you to "roll a d6 for each model in the enemy unit(up to a maximum of 5 dice)." If you move over a unit of 10 models, and launch 3 bigbomms, you roll 5 for each.

Thanks man, thats exactly what I thought.

would the order of them be all at once though?

e.g. is it ore like
roll 5 - kill one
roll 4 - kill two
roll 2

 Latro_ wrote:
would the order of them be all at once though?

e.g. is it ore like
roll 5 - kill one
roll 4 - kill two
roll 2

Yea, I think it resolves like this. The rule specifically says roll for each model in the unit. If there's only 4 models because you killed 1 you only roll 4 dice.

 Latro_ wrote:
would the order of them be all at once though?

e.g. is it ore like
roll 5 - kill one
roll 4 - kill two
roll 2

Assuming it's a 5 model unit then yes

The bombs happen simultaneously but the sequencing rules tell you to resolve one at a time , so when the 2nd bomb goes off it only sees 4 models so only rolls 4 dice