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I hear you should not leave home without these in your list. So, I just want to get people's input on how they work to make sure I got it right.

XV8 has shield generator and a shield drone. The XV8 is hit and wounded by a weapon that has a stat line of -3AP and D6 Damage. XV8 fails the invulnerable 4+save, I roll 2+ to pass the wound to the drone. Drone then 'suffers a mortal wound instead of taking the normal damage'.

Does this mean the drone take to mortal wound and I roll once for the 5+ Feel No Pain safe. Or does the drone take the mortal wound, the opponent for a D6 for the damage and then I have roll one Feel No Pain for each damage ? If it is the first scenario, then I can see where shield drones can be useful. If the later, then why take the drone, cause chances of a drone surviving multiple Feel No Pain rolls from a single weapon are slim.

Roll for each damage

It's the first - you intercept the wound. Then it says that you take all the damage and convert it to a single mortal wound.

The shield drones will convert how ever much damage that shot did into a single mortal wound. So a D6 becomes 1 mortal wound. If two shots pass through to drones, each doing d6 damage, it becomes 2 mortal wounds.

The XV8 would not get to roll invulnerable save if you decided to try and take Savior Protocols.

Example:

The crisis suit gets hit by a lascanon -> to wound roll -> savior protocols.

If you fail the 2+ roll on savior protocols you can make the regular save for the crisis suit.

If you make a successful savior protocol roll, the shield drone gets one (1) mortal wound. It doesn't matter whether the attack would cause 1 Dmg or 6 Dmg, it is allways one (1) mortal wound. The shield drone still has it's 5+ FnP. So on 5+ nothing happens afterwarts.

 Chaphazar wrote:
Example:

The crisis suit gets hit by a lascanon -> to wound roll -> savior protocols.

If you fail the 2+ roll on savior protocols you can make the regular save for the crisis suit.

If you make a successful savior protocol roll, the shield drone gets one (1) mortal wound. It doesn't matter whether the attack would cause 1 Dmg or 6 Dmg, it is allways one (1) mortal wound. The shield drone still has it's 5+ FnP. So on 5+ nothing happens afterwarts.

Oh wait yep, I didn't pay close enough attention to the question.