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The Biting Blade (Eldar codex) says that its special ability kicks in when it affects a model with more than 1 wound.

Is this 1 wound maximum or 1 wound current?

For example, let's say that Karandras with a Biting Blade charges a Space Marine Chaplain. The Chaplain has already been wounded and has only 1 wound left. If Karandras uses his Biting Blade, can he continue making wound rolls against the Chaplain since it is a multiple wound model, or can it not because it only has 1 wound left?

If the latter, it would seem *better* to have something with 2 wounds only face Karandras with 1 wound, so they only have to roll (statistically) 2 saves instead of 6 or 7.

No ideas on this one? It does matter whether the Chaplain makes 2 saves or 6, after all

The answer is: an enemy model must have more than one wound currently for the biting blade's special rules to kick in.

Page 27 of the rulebook makes it clear that when a multi-wound creature loses a wound it loses a wound. That wound is gone.

Unless the biting blade (or similar special rule) specified that it counts the number of wounds on a creature's profile (as the CC outnumbering rules do, for example), the number of wounds a creature has will always be the current amount it actually has.