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Does any one have any luck with it. I never kill any thing when i use it . also why do you only get one shot even with rapid fire guns. Also flamers can't over watch that kind of stinks

You do get to do the rapid fire on overwatch if i recall correctly,
And iv'e had loadsah fun with it, 30 boyz firing 60 shots i tend to get 10-20 hits out of that it's like normal shooting!


Burnas Har har har,
15x d3 hits :3

frogy27 wrote:
Does any one have any luck with it. I never kill any thing when i use it . also why do you only get one shot even with rapid fire guns

Seriously, do you own a rulebook?

You don't only get one shot, an over watch is treated exactly like firing in the shooting phase, only all fire is treated as snap shots and template weapons get d3 auto-hits.

Is i do the way i understand it is they only get one shot off before there hit by charged and only hit on sixs and it says template can't over watch

I'm afraid you understand wrong. The guys above have it covered.

frogy27 wrote:
Is i do the way i understand it is they only get one shot off before there hit by charged and only hit on sixs

Then take up your rulebook and read again

So you understood "overwatch is resolved as a normal shooting attack and uses all the normal rules...Any shots fired as overwatch can only be fired as Snap Shots"
to mean "you can only shoot once with rapid fire weapons."

Yes it don't say if they can fire twice also if heavy guns can shot ig hwt a big one

You asked a question in the forum, and immediately received replies from multiple users telling you the same thing. Maybe you should take their word for it?

frogy27 wrote:
Yes it don't say if they can fire twice also if heavy guns can shot

overwatch is resolved as a normal shooting attack and uses all the normal rules..

resolved as a normal shooting attack and uses all the normal rules..


uses all the normal rules

normal rules


The only down side is you fire snapshot.. use some commonsense.

frogy27 wrote:
Yes it don't say if they can fire twice also if heavy guns can shot ig hwt a big one

Your trolling is getting tiring. Every thread you post is the same.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, though. See where it says normal that's what means you can shoot twice.

The rules for moving don't say I can move my model backwards, therefore I'm not allowed to move backwards.

Setting this whole miscommunication aside...

Does anybody have much luck with it? The only times I've used it I get charged by a horde and it seems like nothing. One one occasion plasma put a huge dent into some charging terminators.

I was under the impression that you could only fire once -- glad to see I'm wrong about that -- but I've had some luck with overwatch. It's hilarious to have someone charge you with a CC unit and then wipe out half of them before they even get to you.

Something that people always miss is you get to fire it BEFORE they roll charge distance, so even if they don't roll minimum distance you still get to pop shots off at them.

It's funny as heck when you have a blob of 50 Guardsmen getting charged by small assault groups.

Overwatch does a fair number on that.

Killed 3 GK paladins with overwatch from a dakkafex last weekend... Epic

I usually get maybe 1-2 kills each time I overwatch.

Of course I am throwing a ton of dice at it usually(stormbolters + psycannons are awsome)

Hospy wrote:
It's funny as heck when you have a blob of 50 Guardsmen getting charged by small assault groups.

Overwatch does a fair number on that.

Aye, when you take into acount that overwatch is 6+ for everyone your body count helps a ton. Unless you have that one psycic power that allows your normal BS for overwatch.

 Condas wrote:

Hospy wrote:
It's funny as heck when you have a blob of 50 Guardsmen getting charged by small assault groups.

Overwatch does a fair number on that.

Aye, when you take into acount that overwatch is 6+ for everyone your body count helps a ton. Unless you have that one psycic power that allows your normal BS for overwatch.

Ahhhh yes, Divination. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

My tau usually have pretty good luck with overwatch. I had a trygon with 2 wounds left charge my HQ squad of crisis suits. I got two plasma shots through and killed it. My opponent was livid about that one. Especially because that trygon would have mulched my crisis suits like a wood chipper.

Best Overwatch for me? Dreadnought charged the Avatar of Khaine. 6 to hit, 6 (plus Str 8) to pen, 6 on the damage chart. Man was he unhappy about that.
Second best Overwatch for me? Marneus Calgar charged a squad of Eldar Pathfinders. 6 to hit makes the weapon AP1, he did not survive that charge...

Did the Avatar shout "Pull!" as the Dread came waddling up?

Ive wrecked a couple of Dreads on Overwatch.

Ive also had the same Dlord get killed 3 times on overwatch by one stinking Meltavet...

I've seen large units of shoota boys do nasty things on overwatch VS standard enemy troops (and even termies).

usually my boyz land a few hits, i usually average 1-2 wounds an overwatch if i got more than 10 models firing (usually never make it through the saving throws though) but ive had some hilarious overwatches.

20 shoota boyz w/ 2 bighsootas and no nob had 5 Terminators + an HQ (forget name) charge them. Overwatched 42 shots, took out 2 termies and cause 2 wounds on the 3wound HQ lol. In the assault i took out 2 more termies.
170pts took out over 300pts and nearly killed an HQ, and it wasnt even me initiating the assault lol.

10 grotz manning a quad gun got charged by 5 wraiths. 11 shots overwatch (including the runtherder) and i took out 3 wraiths. When he botched his 6 saves i had to stop playing for abit i was laughing way too hard that GROTZ took out 3 wraiths in overwatch.

I think in about 7-8 games of 6th edition, I've hit about once during overwatch, ignoring the D3 auto-hits from template weapons.

I've had a ton of units get whacked by overwatch. I've lost the last model or two from Death Company to Grot overwatch TWICE. I've had charges fail, lost a Furioso dread to a meltagun, etc.

I've also foiled some enemy charges, including one where a Big Mek leading a squad of Meganobs got hit by my CSM squad's melta, failed his Look Out Sir, failed his cover save, died, and cost the squad the charge to wipe out my scoring unit. Also gave me Slay the Warlord.

 Grey Templar wrote:


Ahhhh yes, Divination. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

You needn't count. I've already rolled, and figured it out.


Regarding overwatch, I've never had much success with it, but it is always hilarious to gun down a deathstar before it hits. It's not something to rely on, but is certainly nice when the sixes show.

Horrors have a sneaky little Overwatch trick to pull in the new codex...

Load-up on Lesser Rewards on the Herald+Iridescent Horror and you'll likely get at least 1 of them end up with Corrosive Breath. (S5/ap5 template shot)
Then add in your Blasted Standard...
First unit to try and charge you eats 1-2D3 S5 auto-hits followed up by 2D6 auto-hits from the banner!

I've stopped a few charges dead in their tracks doing that, then pounded the buggers with another round of 7D6/S6 Flickering Fire afterwards.

And Flamers are still gross in large numbers unless you're smart enough to throw T5 or larger 2+ save units at them.

Tesla weapons can be fun in overwatch