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When I’m resolving an effect that says “d3 Mortal Wounds,” is that roll considered a “damage roll” for any related purposes?

Thanks in advance!

 PhaseLord wrote:
When I’m resolving an effect that says “d3 Mortal Wounds,” is that roll considered a “damage roll” for any related purposes?

Thanks in advance!

No. It is no more a 'damage roll' than a 'To Wound' roll is. Mortal Wounds do not roll for damage, as each inflicts one point of damage.

So rolls that inflict damage aren’t considered “damage rolls”

Danggit GW!

 PhaseLord wrote:
So rolls that inflict damage aren’t considered “damage rolls”

Danggit GW!

Except it doesn't inflict damage, it rolls to see how many mortal wounds you cause, which cause 1 damage each.

You only have a 'damage roll' when a weapon inflicts a random amount of damage per wound inflicted (e.g., a lascannon does D6 points of damage per wound inflicted). A Mortal Wound will only ever do one point of damage so there is never a 'damage roll'. The roll to determine how many Mortal Wounds a model suffers is not a 'damage roll'.

Mortal wounds are always individual and thus can not be halved or anything like that from abilitiies

For this use, say form a psyker smite. and you roll a 5 so do three mortal wounds. They are considered three seperate mortal wounds one damage a piece. So abilites that half damage still take three mortal wounds.

Considering he asked aout the Necron Solar Staff in a different thread, I believe he was asking in regards to a few rules which allow him to '... re-roll a single hit roll, wound roll or damage roll...'.

 Ghaz wrote:
Considering he asked aout the Necron Solar Staff in a different thread, I believe he was asking in regards to a few rules which allow him to '... re-roll a single hit roll, wound roll or damage roll...'.

Probably. In which case they cannot re-roll the number of Mortal Wounds that Smite or a similar power would do. This is a roll to determine the number of attacks essentially, so is not a hit, wound or damage roll.