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House Vextrix stratagem Interception arrays says: Interception Array. Use this stratagem at the start of your shooting phase. Select one House Vextrix model from your army. Until the end of the phase, when resolving an attack made with a ranged weapon by this model, ignore hit roll modifiers and Ballistic skill modifiers.

Hit roll modifiers are clear but is there some ability or rule which applies BS modifier during game instead of modifier to hit roll? Are damage brackets Ballistic skill modifiers?

MODIFYING CHARACTERISTICS are on pg. 8 of the free core rules, its plus, minus, divide, multiply. A damage table is not a modifier, it changes the characteristic to a new value. The culexus ability to only get hit on 6+ is also not a modifier.

Myytti666 wrote:
House Vextrix stratagem Interception arrays says: Interception Array. Use this stratagem at the start of your shooting phase. Select one House Vextrix model from your army. Until the end of the phase, when resolving an attack made with a ranged weapon by this model, ignore hit roll modifiers and Ballistic skill modifiers.

Hit roll modifiers are clear but is there some ability or rule which applies BS modifier during game instead of modifier to hit roll? Are damage brackets Ballistic skill modifiers?

Damage Brackets are not Ballistic Skill modifiers, they don't CHANGE the ballistic skill, they simply ARE the ballistic skill. If you want to treat them as BS modifiers, then you'd have to use * as a BS which is nonsensical.


P5freak actually has it correct, the Culexus rule isn't technically a modifier. An example of a Ballistic Skill modifier would be the Dark Angels psychic power Mind Wipe, which "reduces its Leadership, Ballistic Skill and Weapon Skill characteristics by 1 for the rest of the battle (e.g. a Ballistic Skill of 3+ is reduced to 4+)."