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Was discussing this with a friend a few days ago since I run a Salamanders style army..

The Salamanders special rule allows you to reroll a single failed hit in any shooting or CC phase.

Captains allow you to reroll ones when rolling to hit in shooting or CC phase

Chaplains allow rerolls to hit in CC phase


Question:

If a Devastator Squad rolls to hit with 3 heavy weapons with a Captain within 6" and achieves one hit and rolls 2 ones:

Do you roll for the Captain's reroll of ones, and then if you still roll a miss you then reroll for Salamanders special rule?


In asssault phase with a Chaplain you roll for unit to hit and get 3 hits and 2 misses
You reroll failed hits for Chaplain, and achieve another hit
Can you then reroll the remaining fail using Salamander special rule?

You can't re-roll a re-roll. You have to choose what rule you're using and you get a maximum of 1 re-roll per dice, period.

Any given dice may only be re-rolled once, ever. It's in the core rules. You can never re-roll a re-rolled dice.

If your 4 Lascannons from a Dev squad (with a captain nearby) roll the following:

3, 4, 2, 1

you are allowed to re-roll the 1 due to the captain, and use the Salamander CT to re-roll the 2.

Modifiers (such as having moved with a Heavy weapon) will be applied after this, so if your squad moved, you'd still only get to re-roll the rolls of 1 and 2 from above, even though the 3 would also miss.

K thank you!

Also note that the Salamnder re-roll isn't once per phase, and isn't restricted to any particular phase. So a Devastator squad can shoot in their shooting phase, get a re-roll, use a cherub to have 1 guy shoot again, who gets another re-roll. Similarly, you can have a unit fight in the Fight phase, get a re-roll, and use the stratagem to fight again, and get another re-roll. Opponent's Movement phase, they deep strike a unit within 12" of a squad and you use the Auspex Scan stratagem, you get to re-roll. They charge, and you get a re-roll when shooting overwatch in the Charge phase.