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If targeting a flying monstrous creature that is swooping, does living lightning auto hit due to the fact that it automatically inflicts d6 hits? And does this cause grounding checks?

Deleted by User. Was erroneously thinking of Imotekh's Lightning.

Automatic hits will not hit a swooper/flyer.

Q: How do maelstroms, novas and beams – or indeed any weapon
that doesn’t need to roll To Hit or hits automatically – interact with
Zooming Flyers and Swooping Flying Monstrous Creatures? (p13)
A: Only Snap Shots can hit Zooming Flyers and Swooping
Flying Monstrous Creatures. Therefore, any attacks that use
blast markers, templates, create a line of/area of effect or
otherwise don’t roll to hit cannot target them. This includes
weapons such as the Necron Doom Scythe’s death ray or the
Deathstrike missile of the Imperial Guard, and psychic
powers that follow the rule for maelstroms, beams, and
novas.

You may also want to read the entry again, as Living Lightning doesn't even auto-hit.

Fragile wrote:
Automatic hits will not hit a swooper/flyer.

Q: How do maelstroms, novas and beams – or indeed any weapon
that doesn’t need to roll To Hit or hits automatically – interact with
Zooming Flyers and Swooping Flying Monstrous Creatures? (p13)
A: Only Snap Shots can hit Zooming Flyers and Swooping
Flying Monstrous Creatures. Therefore, any attacks that use
blast markers, templates, create a line of/area of effect or
otherwise don’t roll to hit cannot target them. This includes
weapons such as the Necron Doom Scythe’s death ray or the
Deathstrike missile of the Imperial Guard, and psychic
powers that follow the rule for maelstroms, beams, and
novas.

Perfect. Thanks man!

 Defeater wrote:
If targeting a flying monstrous creature that is swooping, does living lightning auto hit due to the fact that it automatically inflicts d6 hits? And does this cause grounding checks?

Living lightening doesn't auto hit. It doesn't inflict D6 hits. It's assault D6. Roll a dice that many shots after you cast it, then roll to hit, etc.

Yeah, its just a PSA. It rolls to hit and everything. It just has D6 shots.

So you first pass the Psychic Test, then DtW, then roll for how many shots, then roll to hit with those D6 shots(at BS1)

 liturgies of blood wrote:

 Defeater wrote:
If targeting a flying monstrous creature that is swooping, does living lightning auto hit due to the fact that it automatically inflicts d6 hits? And does this cause grounding checks?

Living lightening doesn't auto hit. It doesn't inflict D6 hits. It's assault D6. Roll a dice that many shots after you cast it, then roll to hit, etc.

Where can i find the rule stating this?

In the codex. If it has a weapon profile and no rule saying it auto-hits it fires like every other weapon, so you'll have to roll to hit.

 Defeater wrote:

 liturgies of blood wrote:

 Defeater wrote:
If targeting a flying monstrous creature that is swooping, does living lightning auto hit due to the fact that it automatically inflicts d6 hits? And does this cause grounding checks?

Living lightening doesn't auto hit. It doesn't inflict D6 hits. It's assault D6. Roll a dice that many shots after you cast it, then roll to hit, etc.

Where can i find the rule stating this?

Codex space wolves pg 37, parse that with psychic powers in the brb.

Got it. Page 69 of the BRB. Thanks guys.