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Couple of Rules questions hopefully you guys can clarify;
1. ATSKNF, and “Get Back into the Fight” do those negate, the adverse Pinning/Falling Back effects like snap shotting your weapons.
2. Artillery (namely Barrage) should negate “Night Fight” as long the target is within the 36” visible distance, correct?
3. GK Monkees, can they switch their weapons on both players turns, or only on controlling player turn?
4. Can the Dragon from CSM “Fly OVER” another flier (aka Vendetta/StormRaven) in order to use his vector strike?
5. Can emplaced weapons “Deny the Witch” and if they cannot, can multiple units within the Blast/LOS of a psychic attack Deny the Witch or just the “targeted unit”.

Thanks for the assistance guys

1 and 3 I'm not sure on off hand.
2. Night Fight rules do not allow you to choose a target more than 36" away. LOS has no bearing on that, so you are still forced to choose a target within 36".
4. Yes. Flying over another Flier is the only way to Vector Strike it.
5. Emplaced Weapons are part of a building and cannot be targeted. Gun Emplacements are not enemy units and thus are not allowed a deny the Witch. Not sure off hand the other part.

Number 1 - ATSKNF specifically states that you move, run/shoot and declare charges in the turn that you (automatically) regroup, in addition to the 3" move (rulebook page 33, which FAQs will show overrides the differently worded Codex versions). In other words, no ill effects. BUT you need to clarify how you recover from Pinning. Go have a look at it on page 40, then at Go to Ground on page 18 (clue - you don't recover from going to ground by regrouping).

Thanks Happy, i should clarify on (5) i was thinking of taking a PBS and "targetting" the Quad gun itself, thus negating the opponets opportunity to "Deny" and hopefully putting some wounds on the nearby troops as well.

Thanks Super, IG Codex says GBITF makes them "act as normal" but wanted to verify.

3. The Jokaero can select the mode for his digis each turn. In absence of other qualifiers, turn means player turn, so he can indeed fire it as a lascannon in his player's turn, and then use it as a heavy flamer in the opponent's assault phase to fire Overwatch with. At least, the way I'm reading it.

3) The Jokaeros' special rule regarding it's digital weapons do indeed say 'turn', which in the absence of further qualifiers should be read to mean 'player turn' as per the BRB rules on page 9 regarding such.

 Super Ready wrote:
Number 1 - ATSKNF specifically states that you move, run/shoot and declare charges in the turn that you (automatically) regroup, in addition to the 3" move (rulebook page 33, which FAQs will show overrides the differently worded Codex versions). In other words, no ill effects. BUT you need to clarify how you recover from Pinning. Go have a look at it on page 40, then at Go to Ground on page 18 (clue - you don't recover from going to ground by regrouping).

To regroup you have to be falling back. If you're falling back you cannot be pinned as once you fail the morale check, even if you we're pinned, you will automatically become unpinned before falling back.

So if a vanilla marine unit went to ground, but still took enough casualties to take a morale check, they could choose to auto fail it due to combat tactics, before auto rallying in their turn and not suffering the penalties for going to ground.

Didn't see #2 properly answered. The attack is considered to originate from the center of the blast marker for a barrage with a blast, so yes, it would ignore Night Fight cover bonuses. As was said (and as you said in the question), you still can't choose targets outside of 36".

 plus1jeremy wrote:
The attack is considered to originate from the center of the blast marker for a barrage with a blast, so yes, it would ignore Night Fight cover bonuses.

Not true. The shot is considered to be coming from the center of the blast for two reasons. By the time you get to those the target unit has already been granted either Stealth or Shrouded based on their distance from the firing unit.

 Happyjew wrote:

 plus1jeremy wrote:
The attack is considered to originate from the center of the blast marker for a barrage with a blast, so yes, it would ignore Night Fight cover bonuses.

Not true. The shot is considered to be coming from the center of the blast for two reasons. By the time you get to those the target unit has already been granted either Stealth or Shrouded based on their distance from the firing unit.

I agree this is correct. For a long time I couldn't really reconcile why it should be the case that targets out of sight should get the benefits of Night Fighting, but I suppose if a Barrage unit is going to fire indirect they must be getting some sort of battlefield intel from somewhere to say where to attack - so I suppose it must be the (virtual) spotter who is having difficulty pinpointing the target. Anyway, that's how I'm getting sleep nights now

 plus1jeremy wrote:
Didn't see #2 properly answered. The attack is considered to originate from the center of the blast marker for a barrage with a blast, so yes, it would ignore Night Fight cover bonuses. As was said (and as you said in the question), you still can't choose targets outside of 36".

The shot originates from the centre of the blast for two uses, but the range to the firing unit - which is what i smeasured for Night Fighting - never changes.