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I was just having a flick through the rule book, and noticed sky fire lets you use your normal bs when shooting at skimmers, and yet I can't find anything in the book that means shooting a skimmer is different to normally shooting a vehicle. Is there anything I have missed?

yeah, skimmers are basically normal for 99% of the shooting rules, only exceptions I've found are the skyfire thing and they're not in the list for units affected by strafing run. I'm pretty sure they were added to the skyfire rules to make skyfire weapons ever see the board.

Skyfire simply doesn't give the 'snapshot-only' penalty when firing at a Skimmer. A Skimmer is not treated any differently than any other non-Flying vehicle for shooting purposes.

 statu wrote:
I was just having a flick through the rule book, and noticed sky fire lets you use your normal bs when shooting at skimmers, and yet I can't find anything in the book that means shooting a skimmer is different to normally shooting a vehicle. Is there anything I have missed?

No. Snap Fire isn't only for not snap firing at hard to hit units. It put restrictions on what that shooting attack can't hit at BS then says what it can shoot normally. So when it can hit a skimmer normally it's because it lifted its own restriction, not a restriction on hitting skimmers (because there isn't one).

So the reference to skimmers in the sky fire rule is a mistake then?

No. Normal shots and Skyfire shots both hit at normal BS against Skimmers.

Otherwise, if a model was firing a Skyfire weapon, it would have to snapfire to hit Skimmers.

As someone already said, its just a way GW is hoping to sell more models that have Skyfire, otherwise very few armies would take a anti-air unit.

 statu wrote:
So the reference to skimmers in the sky fire rule is a mistake then?

No. If that reference wasnt there, then Skyfire would make you snapshot against skimmers.

Ah right I understand it now, thanks