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Let some weapons critical hit on a 6. A critical hit is basically a mortal wound that respects fixed saves. Less op than a MW but still very effective.

 Techpriestsupport wrote:
Let some weapons critical hit on a 6. A critical hit is basically a mortal wound that respects fixed saves. Less op than a MW but still very effective.

So, effectively, give weapons AP Infinite on wound rolls of 6? I'm trying to understand what exactly you're saying.

I believe what is being said is that for certain weapons (yet to be determined), if you roll a 6 To hit, it automatically wounds - no To Wound roll required.

Ignore that, didn't read the OP right.

Edit - So, "Critical Hit!: A hit roll of an unmodified 6 causes an automatic wound rather than a regular hit"
On what weapons would you want this on?

And what would you be giving shuriken weapons to make up for giving their rule to a bunch of other weapons?

It may be nice only on very powerful weapons that fire a limited amount of shots. Otherwise anything with a good rate of fire will be overpowered.

Things like S10 AP-4 multidamage or better could definitely skip the to-wound phase if they roll an unmodified roll of six. I'd limit a rule like this only to very powerful and expensive weapons.

I'm still not clear on what's being suggested. Are we talking about...

* Weapons that on TO-WOUND rolls of 6 ignore armor saves but not invulns?

Or...

* Weapons that on TO-HIT rolls of 6 automatically wound, but don't bypass saves?

In either case, it would depend a lot on how it was implemented. Giving lasguns access to either mechanic would probably break the game. Putting it on plasma pistols (for some weird reason) probably wouldn't.

I believe the suggestion is that the "critical hit" will get past armour saves but still allow invulnerable saves - like the old-school AP2 weapons.

I think that a lot of weapons which currently cause mortal wounds should instead go across to this.