(answered) Assigning wounds to Necron Scarabs

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**Ouze**

Hello all. This question has doubtlessly been asked before, but I couldn't find it despite searching.

When I run Necron Scarabs, they have 3 wounds per base. In a unit of 10*, they have 30 wounds.

The way i usually do it is: once I take 3 wounds, I remove a base - I only ever count the wounds of one base at a time. So, if I take 7 wounds, I remove 2 bases and leave a base with 2 wounds remaining. Easy to track.

But if I wanted to be difficult - I could spread the wounds across the unit, right? ie, if I take 10 wounds, assign them so each base has 2 wounds remaining, and remove no models - instead of removing 3 bases and assigning 1 remaining wound.

This can't be right, right? If so, I could basically never remove a single base from a 10 Scarab* unit until they have sustained, what, 21 wounds?

Thanks!

*We play 5th edition, but I'm not sure it matters for the purposes of this question.

**Some_Call_Me_Tim**

If I’m remembering correct this was only if they had unique wargear, hence why nob warbikers were very good.

**JohnnyHell**

Which edition you play is quite crucial, and should probably be in the thread title before you get a bunch of 9th Edition answers.

**alextroy**

Nvm

**Ouze**

Nevermind - by removing "Scarabs" from the search, I found my answer.

**Rihgu**

In 5th edition there are wound pools for every matching model in the unit. So

3 Tactical Marines with bolters
1 Tactical Marine with Flamer
1 Tactical Marine Sergeant with Power Fist.

There are 3 pools.
When you assign wounds to the unit, you can assign to any pool you want, so if you take 3 wounds, you can take one to the bolter pool, one to the flamer pool, and one to the sergeant pool, losing 3 models.

When you have Nob Bikers you can have a situation like
Nob Biker with Power klaw
Nob Biker with Big Choppa
Nob Biker with Kombi-Shoota

so when you take 3 wounds, you assign 1 wound to each pool. If you assign another wound to any pool it MUST be assigned to the same model that had already been assigned wounds.

With scarabs, there is only 1 pool as the unit has no options so all have the same stats/name/wargear.

**Ouze**

Thank you very much - that was exactly what I needed