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OK, so I play 40k against this guy who has space wolves. Whenever I have played him, and he chooses a venerable dreadnought, he has forced his opponents to re-roll dice for initiative.  Example: I am playing against a space wolves player and we roll initiative. I get a six he gets a five. He makes me reroll and then I get a four. He goes first.

I recently picked up a copy of the space wolves codex( 2nd printing) and as far as I can tell, the only person who could get a re-roll is the space wolves player. Example: I am playing a space wolves player and on the initiative roll I get a six and he gets a five. from my reading of the rules, only he could re-roll to try and get a six, but could not force me to re-roll any dice.

Could anyone tell me if:

I am right or wrong.

They have seen this before.

If there is an FAQ out there that changes what I have in my codex.

If I am just interpereting the rule wrong.

Thanks folks!

Can you post the wording of the rule? Our local player rerolls his own die and I seem to remember this being correct when I checked it but that was a while ago.

The space wolf ven allows the wolf player to re-roll HIS role to see who goes first. He cant force you to reroll yours.

Make him reread his rules.

I'm not sure what the venerable dreadnought rules for space wolves are, word for word, but this what the kroothawk totem wargear for a Kroot Merc army says:

"You may reroll the dice to see who goes first."

I think it could be interpreted either way, especially since they used the word dice rather than die.  But when I use that wargear I only reroll my own die because there is nothing in the rules that says you may ever roll an opponent's.

- Oaka

As a long time space wolf player I can assure you that your friend is wrong. He would only be allowed to reroll his die in an attempt to beat what you got. I don't have the book in front of me so I cant qoute directly, but that is what it says.

Only the Wolves player is allowed a reroll as it says: "If an army includes one then it may reroll the dice to determine......."