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So I'm reading the FAQ and now I am confused whereas before I wasn't. (crazy right?)

FAQs
Q: If an attack inflicts mortal wounds on the target, and the
attack is subsequently allocated to a Drones unit as a result
of the Saviour Protocols ability, what happens to those mortal
wounds inflicted?
A: They are cancelled. All damage and mortal wounds
inflicted as the result of that attack is reduced to the
mortal wound inflicted by the Saviour Protocols ability on
that Drones unit.

So lets say I get hit with a railgun, that rolls a 6 to wound, and now it inflicts wounds and mortal wounds. That's just a single mortal wound if the 2+ savior protocal goes off?

or does this mean that if there's a weapon that does 1 or more mortal wounds without doing regular damage that its just a single mortal wound if the 2+ savior protocal goes off?

Or does it apply to both scenarios?

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
So I'm reading the FAQ and now I am confused whereas before I wasn't. (crazy right?)

FAQs
Q: If an attack inflicts mortal wounds on the target, and the
attack is subsequently allocated to a Drones unit as a result
of the Saviour Protocols ability, what happens to those mortal
wounds inflicted?
A: They are cancelled. All damage and mortal wounds
inflicted as the result of that attack is reduced to the
mortal wound inflicted by the Saviour Protocols ability on
that Drones unit.

So lets say I get hit with a railgun, that rolls a 6 to wound, and now it inflicts wounds and mortal wounds. That's just a single mortal wound if the 2+ savior protocal goes off?

or does this mean that if there's a weapon that does 1 or more mortal wounds without doing regular damage that its just a single mortal wound if the 2+ savior protocal goes off?

Or does it apply to both scenarios?

It means it all gets "transferred" to the drone and causes a single mortal wound on the drone instead.

It basically means that any damage that requires a Wound roll may be Savior Protocol'd. And if it is, even if you dealt 99 damage and 20 MWs, they all get converted into 1 MW per attack successfully SP'd.

So, for your scenarios, it would apply to both as long as they require Wound rolls and you successfully use Savior Protocols.

 Sazzlefrats wrote:

So lets say I get hit with a railgun, that rolls a 6 to wound, and now it inflicts wounds and mortal wounds. That's just a single mortal wound if the 2+ savior protocal goes off?

Yes. If you face tau you need to do MW alone (like flakk missile or hellfire shells, smite, etc.), or hope to fail your wound roll, if you have a weapon which does MW in addition.

If a weapon hits AND wounds, and either the hit roll or wound roll also has an added bonus of mortal wounds (mind you there MUST be a successful wound roll made for this to work) and you succeed in activating savior protocol, all of the mortal wounds and damage from that specific attack are nullified and are made into a single mortal wound which is then applied to the drone. You then make a fnp roll to see if you lose a drone or not. Likewise however, if it is the to HIT roll that makes a mortal wound happen and they FAIL the wound roll, savior protocol cannot be activated because the wound roll failed. Therefore the mortal wound that was still activated from the to hit roll still hits the originally intended target. I hope this makes sense and clarified your question.

SP is utterly ridiculous. Imagine a breacher team with two shield drones being attacked a warlord scout titan with dual turbo laser destructors. The titan shoots the breacher team, turn after turn, and SP always intercepts the damage, turns it into a MW, and the drones ignores it. The titan pilot is close to crying, until he starts shooting the drones, and they are instantly vaporized. Damage from another unit is converted into a single MW, but damage which hits the drones hits with full force. Makes sense, doesnt it ?

 p5freak wrote:
SP is utterly ridiculous. Imagine a breacher team with two shield drones being attacked a warlord scout titan with dual turbo laser destructors. The titan shoots the breacher team, turn after turn, and SP always intercepts the damage, turns it into a MW, and the drones ignores it. The titan pilot is close to crying, until he starts shooting the drones, and they are instantly vaporized. Damage from another unit is converted into a single MW, but damage which hits the drones hits with full force. Makes sense, doesnt it ?

Yes, you are right, it makes total sense. Why wouldn't it?

 p5freak wrote:
SP is utterly ridiculous. Imagine a breacher team with two shield drones being attacked a warlord scout titan with dual turbo laser destructors. The titan shoots the breacher team, turn after turn, and SP always intercepts the damage, turns it into a MW, and the drones ignores it. The titan pilot is close to crying, until he starts shooting the drones, and they are instantly vaporized. Damage from another unit is converted into a single MW, but damage which hits the drones hits with full force. Makes sense, doesnt it ?

The way I always imagine it is it happens this way because we are suppose to imagine it like this. If the shots are fired at a unit that activates savior protocol, regardless of how small or big that weapon is a single drone is flying in the way to nullify the blast, where as if the unit itself is shot at then all the full power is going towards multiple drones. I know this has nothing to do with the rules I’m simply saying what I feel like they are trying to do “visually”.

Pain4Pleasure wrote:

 p5freak wrote:
SP is utterly ridiculous. Imagine a breacher team with two shield drones being attacked a warlord scout titan with dual turbo laser destructors. The titan shoots the breacher team, turn after turn, and SP always intercepts the damage, turns it into a MW, and the drones ignores it. The titan pilot is close to crying, until he starts shooting the drones, and they are instantly vaporized. Damage from another unit is converted into a single MW, but damage which hits the drones hits with full force. Makes sense, doesnt it ?

The way I always imagine it is it happens this way because we are suppose to imagine it like this. If the shots are fired at a unit that activates savior protocol, regardless of how small or big that weapon is a single drone is flying in the way to nullify the blast, where as if the unit itself is shot at then all the full power is going towards multiple drones. I know this has nothing to do with the rules I’m simply saying what I feel like they are trying to do “visually”.

A weapon that is intended to blow chunks out of Hive Cities and other Titans should not be able to be blocked by a drone the size of an Albatross. It's silly, but no less silly than the other silly things in 8th edition that make no sense.

^ what BCB said. There are literally dozens of examples of silly things in 40k. Like how you're so concerned about hurting the Dreadnaught with your assault rifles, that you refuse to shoot the Gretchin that locked in CC with it. Or that if there's an enemy unit 0.1" closer to you than the character on the opposite side of the map, you can't shoot that character standing in the open. Or how you can "run" and fire assault weapons but literally everything else refuses to function at more than a walk.

Hey guys I didn’t say it made sense, I was just trying to give a visual of what I think they were going for

Titans never make sense in 40k though, the game system isn't created with weapons that big making sense in mind.

Like invoking Hitler in an Internet discussion, if you bring Titans’ rules into a 40K discussion that discussion is over. :-D

FW wrote those rules in a lunch break. You can’t play games with Titans properly without house ruling oddities, so let’s not pretend they ever pop up in the Matched Play wannabe-tourney games that are usually discussed in here. It’s fruitless.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Like invoking Hitler in an Internet discussion, if you bring Titans’ rules into a 40K discussion that discussion is over. :-D

Replace titan with shadowsword, or any other unit with a very high powered gun. Point is, 12 damage can be reduced to 1 MW by a 10 pts. model, which then can be ignored. Its insanely ridiculous. The ruling that MW in addition are cancelled adds insult to severe injury.

Definitely, but it’s not unclear so not a YMDC matter. Take the butthurt to General Discussion. ;-)