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Can you use Improved Comms to reroll the reserve dice for a Callidus Assassin?

When the Eversor explodes in combat, if he causes enough wounds, will the enemy need to take a morale check?

When using the Inquisitor's psychic power that reduces an enemy character's LD by 3, and the character is attached to a basic infantry squad with no sergeant, do you use the character's LD value if it is lower than the squad's?

Does Inquisitor Lord Karomozov get the +1 attack for having an extra close combat weapon?

Thanks in advance for your responses!

1) Yes, the Callidus Assassin makes normal reserve rolls so improved comms could be used to re-roll her reserves roll.


2) If the Eversor explodes during combat I don't see any reason why the wounds caused by his blast wouldn't be counted towards the combat result. Of course, if the enemy unit was fighting *only* the Eversor, it wouldn't matter as a side that wipes out the enemy in combat is always victorious (and doesn't have to take a morale check).


3) This question is pretty much unanswerable since GW still hasn't clarified which Leadership is used in a unit that has mixed Ld. However, the IC rules do state that when an IC is joined to a unit, the unit uses his Ld value for tests. . .so RAW (on an IC), the answer would be yes; you still use the character's Ld value when it's lower than the unit.

However, I think you'll find that most people play that you always get to use the highest Ld value in the unit because that's likely what GW meant to write (since they don't tell you at all what to do in the case of a mixed Ld unit).


4) Why would you think he would? The answer is no, by the RAW there is no evidence that he is equipped with two single-handed weapons, and therefore he doesn't get the +1 Attack bonus for being armed as such.

Thanks for the quick responses, yakface.

I was thinking Karomozov would receive the +1 attack because he is considered to have the combined profile of himself, the Lexmiechanic thing counting as 2 of the BS bonus guys, a gun servitor, and a servo skull familiar. And in the description of a servo skull familiar in the WH codex, it says it is equipped with a close combat weapon. So having a combined profile of all these things, it seems like he has extra close combat weapons from his integrated little "buddies."

pg 51 RB " One advantage of a character being part of a unit is that any leadership test the unit takes are then made using the character's Leadership value, if it is superior to the unit." Otherwise Yak is correct, as far as I can tell.

Posted By Imriel on 02/20/2007 3:22 PM
pg 51 RB " One advantage of a character being part of a unit is that any leadership test the unit takes are then made using the character's Leadership value, if it is superior to the unit."

Which only applies to Independant Characters, as Yakface mentioned.

It doesn't apply to non-independant characters that are a part of a unit.

No, it seems that applies to any character, regardless of indipendance.

and lookie, all these lines about upgrading to veteran sargeant(at least in the IG book) are prefixed with a bold Character: thus, we may assume that veteran sargeants and the like are characters, and, convey their Ld to the unit. They just have none of the rules for independant characters.

Pinkbunny:

read page 50. It makes it clear that there are two types of characters (IC and upgrade characters) and that the rules on pages 50-51 only apply to ICs.

Yeah, if you're using the IG codex to try to glean any sense from mixed Ld then you're already headed for confusion city pinkbunny. Vet sarges, advisors, and such are anybody's guess for Ld to be used in an IG force. As yak points out though, IC's are pretty dialed in per the BGB.

I know full well that my rules quote only applied to ICs, it was simply to counter Yaks statement that the unit uses the IC's Ld even if it is lower then the unit's.

Posted By Imriel on 02/22/2007 10:05 AM
I know full well that my rules quote only applied to ICs, it was simply to counter Yaks statement that the unit uses the IC's Ld even if it is lower then the unit's.

Except it seems to confirm what he's saying, not countering it.

from yak :

However, the IC rules do state that when an IC is joined to a unit, the unit uses his Ld value for tests. . .so RAW (on an IC), the answer would be yes; you still use the character's Ld value .when it's lower than the unit

pg 51 RB " One advantage of a character being part of a unit is that any leadership test the unit takes are then made using the character's Leadership value, if it is superior to the unit[b/][i/]." Otherwise Yak is correct, as far as I can tell.

can't seem to edit but as you see in the bold they use the charaters LD if it is suppirior to the units, not, as yak claimed, all the time.