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If I have a Crisis Commander with 2 Marker Drones and a Drone Controller joining an Elites unit of 2 XV-8 Crisis suits with 4 Marker Drones, all 6 Marker Drones get to use the Commander's BS. Now say I equip one of the crisis suits with 2 plasma rifles and a target lock, and the other with 2 fusion blasters - can the suit with the dual plasma and target lock, when shooting at a different target than the commander and the other fusion blaster suit, also use his 2 own 2 drones to benefit from his target lock? Or do all drones shoot at whatever unit the commander and FB suit are shooting?

Drones are just normal models in a unit. The fluff of who they "belong to" is irrelevant, they shoot at the same target as the rest of the unit unless they get explicit permission to do otherwise.

no , the drones are members of the unit for rules purposes and would each need their own target lock to fire at a separate unit then the declared unit .

okay thanks. so the only change they get is that the fire at BS5 thanks to the commander's drone controller, but are all otherwise members of the unit.

Give the crisis suits target locks, and then the unit (drones) shoot at 1 thing, and everyone with a target lock shoots something else.

 BarBoBot wrote:
Give the crisis suits target locks, and then the unit (drones) shoot at 1 thing, and everyone with a target lock shoots something else.

That is not how the Split fire rule works.

Target locks give the model Split Fire, Split fire then only allows for 1 model to fire at a different target then the unit(does not have to be the model with split fire).

This also answers the OP's question

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 BarBoBot wrote:
Give the crisis suits target locks, and then the unit (drones) shoot at 1 thing, and everyone with a target lock shoots something else.

That is not how the Split fire rule works.

Target locks give the model Split Fire, Split fire then only allows for 1 model to fire at a different target then the unit(does not have to be the model with split fire).

This also answers the OP's question

Target locks do not give the split fire rule. The target lock entry says that a model equiped with one can shoot at a different target then the unit, it also does not require a leadership test either

 FirePainter wrote:

 Kommissar Kel wrote:

 BarBoBot wrote:
Give the crisis suits target locks, and then the unit (drones) shoot at 1 thing, and everyone with a target lock shoots something else.

That is not how the Split fire rule works.

Target locks give the model Split Fire, Split fire then only allows for 1 model to fire at a different target then the unit(does not have to be the model with split fire).

This also answers the OP's question

Target locks do not give the split fire rule. The target lock entry says that a model equiped with one can shoot at a different target then the unit, it also does not require a leadership test either

What entry was I thinking of, sheesh. May have to rethink some support system choices

At any rate the drones are not models with the target lock so cannot fire at different targets.

Correct all the drones must fire at the same target

Yeah the drones shoot at a single target, and any model with a target lock can shoot at something else.