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Say I have a unit of Guardsmen with a 4+ save. They get hit and failed a wound roll with a weapon that has atleast AP -3. Now they have to roll a saving throw of 7+, since a 7+ is impossible on a D6. Are they automatically destroyed or do i still get to roll a saving throw and hope for a 6 result?
   
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BasJustinian wrote:
Say I have a unit of Guardsmen with a 4+ save. They get hit and failed a wound roll with a weapon that has atleast AP -3. Now they have to roll a saving throw of 7+, since a 7+ is impossible on a D6. Are they automatically destroyed or do i still get to roll a saving throw and hope for a 6 result?
They get no save. Or rather, their save fails no matter what you roll.

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Also, strictly speaking the modifier is to the dice roll not the save itself.

So you save is still 4+, but the six possible rolls on the dice are 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, all of which are less than 4+ and thus all of which fail.
   
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Crucially, you would still actually MAKE the roll, because we're starting to see abilities that trigger on unmodified save rolls of 6.

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