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Hello everyone,

Here's a beginner's question:

If I have a shooting weapon which has 2 attacks, and I make my to hit roll, and the first to hit roll fails, can I then try the second attack?

For example, if a Warboss with a combi shoota fails his first try (less than 5+), can he then try to roll one more time in order to see if his second attack hits?

Thanks

The number of shots you roll to hit is the same, regardless if some of them hit or miss.

If you're rolling dice one at a time your game will last for days. Work out how many shots in total for the unit, roll that many dice. Use different coloured dice for different weapons where appropriate.

The weapon profile shows how many individual shot it has.

E.g. Assault 4.

That means it is an Assault Weapon and has four shots.

Each of those four is individual rolls and you resolve them one at a time. This is game play RAW for the order sequence.

But we have in the gaming culture "Fast Rolling" where we roll all four at the same time but each one is resolved interdependently of the others.

Each one of those four shots is subject to re-rolls if there is a re-roll aura in the models range. But you can never under any circumstance re-roll a re-roll.

 RedMenaceEternal wrote:
Hello everyone,

Here's a beginner's question:

If I have a shooting weapon which has 2 attacks, and I make my to hit roll, and the first to hit roll fails, can I then try the second attack?

For example, if a Warboss with a combi shoota fails his first try (less than 5+), can he then try to roll one more time in order to see if his second attack hits?

Thanks

The Shoota is an Assault 2 weapon. That means you pick up two dice and roll them at the same time to see how many shots actually hit.

On the page about Shooting, read the "Fast Dice Rolling" sidebar to see how to resolve attacks a little bit faster.

Thank you all for the answers! It is very nice to recieve such a quick and friendly response.

In the rulebook it is said on the shooting, that "if [the result on the dice is lower when the model's Ballistic Skill], the attack fails and the attack sequence ends". I just got the word "sequence" wrong, as it's not my native language and I thought "sequence" meant "series of dice","range of dice" and not actually ¨"just one particular dice". Hence the question arose.

UPD.:

I found there I missed the logic. The first sentence of the paragraph states that ¨"Each time a model makes an attack, roll a dice". So ¨"the attack sequence ends" part refers to that particular one failled roll, not for all rolls made by the model. Thank you once again.

Yeah, that's right. It's not referring to the sequence of multiple attacks, it's referring to the sequence of steps you go through to resolve a particular single attack. I can see the confusion though!