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I was just thinking about this and I don't know how it works exactly.

Lets say I have a tactical squad with 8 bolters, 1 plasma gun and 1 lascannon.

It fires everthing and scores 5 bolter successful wound rolls, 1 plasma gun wound and 1 lascannon wound


and lets say my opponent has a 5 man space wolf long fangs squad, including one guy has a storm sheild.

Assuming that my opponent is very lucky and makes every save with his storm sheild, can he allocate all the wounds, one at a time to the storm sheild bearer, or do they have to get spread out?

They should be resolved one at a time. He can keep allocating them to the Storm Shield bearer until he is slain, then any remaining would have to be made without the Storm Shield.

Note that you choose which order to shoot your weapons (though the same weapons have to be all shot together), so you can do this tactically if you think it helps.

So I can force him to take the bolter fire first?

 Sazzlefrats wrote:
So I can force him to take the bolter fire first?

Absolutely. Though he can of course allocate them to other models and save the Storm Shield for the Plasma and Lascannon.

Exception being for multi wound models, once they lose a wound then you must allocate future wounds to them until the model is slain - you can't have multiple models in the same unit with wounds missing!

If you review the shooting rules, you will see that technically when using the Fast Rolling rules, you only roll the dice for one type of weapon resolving To Hit, To Wound, Save, and Damage before you even roll for the next type of weapon.

Players commonly roll all the weapons for a unit by using different color dice. If you do that, you should declare the order resolution to avoid either player attempting to "game" resolution of saves.

What about, if you have a model with 2 wounds, and the rest of the unit has 1 wound. If you allocate one 1 wound to that model, can you then just take any 1 wound model off the board, because at that point, any wounds equals a kill?

I'm thinking of unit leaders with 2 wounds... use one to save a grunt from dying, and then afterwards take all wounds on the grunts and leave the leader until the last.

I have a feeling from the rules primer its not a legit tactic

No. Once a model with multiple wounds has lost a wound, all Wounds must be allocated to the model in the Save step until the model is dead.

 alextroy wrote:
Players commonly roll all the weapons for a unit by using different color dice. If you do that, you should declare the order resolution to avoid either player attempting to "game" resolution of saves.

Is this how its done in tournaments? I don't want to be labeled as "that" guy.


BTW thanks for the confirmation on the 2 wound leader in units of 1 wound models.

I don't play tournaments, but I would declare, before rolling to hit, I am rolling these together, but we will resolve them as Bolter, Plasma Gun, then Las Cannon.

i've seen it done but I wouldn't say its common. it can be useful time saving for firing multiple plasma guns in the same unit as a 1 for two different plasma guns is different to the same plasma gun rolling two ones.