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Had this in my last game. My Sagittarum guard were about to fire at my opponents' Riptide, but I decided to use both profiles of their Adrastus Calivers. I ended up firing the bolt profiles at the drones and the adrastus profiles at the Riptide itself.

I have a feeling this was a foul play on my part, but I'm wondering what you guys think of it. In this case if you fire both profiles at the same target, one of them is rather wasted. My thoughts are that you're able to fire both profiles, but are they counted as separate shooting attacks?

combi-weapons are a single weapon with 2 profiles, depending on the specific case, they usually have the phrase "When attacking with this weapon, choose one or both of the profiles below. If you choose both, subtract 1 from all hit rolls for this weapon. ", in the specific case of the unit in question, I would need to see the rules

You cannot shoot two different units with a weapon, unless a special rule says otherwise.

If a weapon has more than one attack, it
must make all of its attacks against the
same target unit.

 jolyas wrote:
in the specific case of the unit in question, I would need to see the rules

Link

Adrastus bolt caliver wrote:When you choose this weapon to shoot with, select one or both of the profiles below. If you select both, subtract 1 from hit rolls for attacks made with this weapon

If you choose both profiles your weapon has more than one attack, and all attacks must target the same unit.

 Valkyrie wrote:
Had this in my last game. My Sagittarum guard were about to fire at my opponents' Riptide, but I decided to use both profiles of their Adrastus Calivers. I ended up firing the bolt profiles at the drones and the adrastus profiles at the Riptide itself.

I have a feeling this was a foul play on my part, but I'm wondering what you guys think of it. In this case if you fire both profiles at the same target, one of them is rather wasted. My thoughts are that you're able to fire both profiles, but are they counted as separate shooting attacks?

Theyre separate shooting attacks, but they're still a single weapon, and you cannot split fire for attacks from a single weapons.

Pretty sure they are considered different weapons simply do to the fact they have a separate profile. Even though they are the same weapon.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Pretty sure they are considered different weapons simply do to the fact they have a separate profile. Even though they are the same weapon.

You would be incorrect. There are a multitude of abilities that function on a "single weapon". Most of them have FAQs stating they impact both profiles of combi-weapons because those profiles are considered a single weapon for rules purposes.

You cannot. When you choose a unit to fire, you select which weapons you will fire at which units.

You declare you are shooting your Combi-Flamer at Unit A. When it comes time to actually resolve the shots from the Combi-Flamer, the Combi-Flamer's rule kicks in and tells you how to resolve those shots. You're far past the point of picking targets when you actually fire the Combi-Flamer.

You cannot. I'm too lazy to look it up, but each weapon must be resolved vs. a single target (though a model with multiple weapons can aim each at a different target). A combi-weapon is actually a single weapon, with two profiles. If you look at the weapon entry in the back of any codex, the entire weapon (both profiles) is a single entry.

Great, thanks for the clarification guys