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This has always bothered me. By definition, jinking is evasive maneuvering to avoid taking a hit. But if 10 shots are coming at you at once. Realistically, how many jinks could you make to avoid the hit?

I was playing a Tau player yesterday. I feel the silly seeming jink saves cost me the game. Devilfish were transporting pathfinders, and I didn't want my plague marines getting marker lighted. So I wanted to get rid of them as soon as possible, or make his pathfinders foot slog to get in range. So I fired Lascannons from my obliterators. 2 hit. He jinks them. Lascannons from my Tried las pred. He jinks them. 4 krak missiles and sarge on quad gun. I manage one glance because he jinked them. This wasn't just 1 turn though. It took three turns of fire power to destroy both devilfish. This is fire I needed to use to support my plague marines and terminators against his broadsides, riptides, and crisis suits. The fact that you can jink an unlimited amount of shots all in the same period of time seems ridiculous to me. Anyone have an ideas, or can explain this to me.

Although it is annoying when someone continues making jink save after jink save, dems the dice. I don't think about it so much as dodging the bullets but that they are so fast and agile they are hard to hit. Would make more sense as a To Hit modifier but those don't exist in the game anymore so its folded into cover save.

Its a 5+ save........ its only strong if your opponent is rolling crazy good.



Its like an ork player making 15 5+ cybork body and FNP saves in a row on me once in a tourny.

"Realistically"

40k is not a realistic game.

your supposed to imagine that the flier or skimmer was swerving around the whole time and not per player turn. Or that they pulled off a star fox barrel roll and the shots just got deflected.

Dang it, Desubot, now I have to flat out a Falcon next time I field one, so it can do a barrel roll...

Eihnlazer wrote:
Its a 5+ save........ its only strong if your opponent is rolling crazy good.



Its like an ork player making 15 5+ cybork body and FNP saves in a row on me once in a tourny.

It's a 4+ for tau if they take the upgrade.

A 4+ is a 4+. Its not very good unless your opponent gets lucky and then if he gets lucky, well your screwed no matter what army you play.

And considering the frailty of vehicles with being able to be glanced to death that jink is almost required.

God no, my ravenwing need it to liiiive hah

Also the units are not taking shots one at a time but all at once if you think about it. And you might be constantly jinking from side-to-side.

That, and, a t4 marine can survive being mauled by 10 Banshees, based on luck, but their endurance would go down as they get stabbed/cut. Its just he way the dice work.