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Hi guys, this came up in a game yesterday at another table and I left before I heard it resolved. The argument stemmed from a guy who had the precision shots special rule rolled a successful hit, however then proceeded to claim that he could re roll the dice to try and get a precision shot because it was a different kind of shot and therefore he could try and save the character that you wanted to. As far as I'm aware if you roll a hit you cannot re roll it, is that not correct?

I'd say so yes.

I cant think of any methods of Twin linked or rerolls to hit that allow you to reroll the dice when you successfully hit the first time except for the case of scatter rolls.

It depends on the rule giving the re-roll.

Prescience, for example, only allows re-rolls on "failed To Hit rolls." Shooting with BS>6 only allows re-rolls on a "1" To Hit. etc.

Which rule specifically was he using?

Eldar Guide allows you to reroll any to hit roll. So I'd say if the unit was guided, then they could do that, as an example.

Guide only works on failed rolls too. You're confused with the previous codex.

 Shandara wrote:
Guide only works on failed rolls too. You're confused with the previous codex.

The book has two seperate entries for it. One says failed to hit rolls, one says all rolls. I guess the more conservative one is the best to go with.

 djones520 wrote:

 Shandara wrote:
Guide only works on failed rolls too. You're confused with the previous codex.

The book has two seperate entries for it. One says failed to hit rolls, one says all rolls. I guess the more conservative one is the best to go with.

The one that just says 'rolls' is in the reference section of the book. The actual rule always takes precedence over the reference.

Hmm, the psychic cards I have say 'failed rolls'.. bad QC I guess?

yeah most rolls state "may re-roll any failed [...] rolls"

so I think as a universal rule a re-roll is only valid against failed rolls - unless it's a re-roll on a table.