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Hey, here’s an example situation:

10 Eldar Guardian Defenders with a Farseer and Bright Lance are shooting 2 Chaos Spawn with 1 already wounded twice.

The Eldar player can choose the order that they shoot, right? Choosing to shoot with the Shuriken catapults first hoping to kill the wounded spawn before shooting the bright Lance into the full health one. Can the Chaos player wait until entire unit finishes shooting before allocating damage?

For one remember. At the core you do attacks one at a time. Rolling multiple is for sake of CONVENIENCE. Nobody wants to go through 50 dice roll to hit, wound, save, damage, next

So you choose order with which you attack. Against individual target you shoot all weapons you allocated vs specific unit first. Then the other unit. Then inside unit following quote(page 20) is relevant.

If your unit is shooting more than one ranged weapon at a target, and those weapons have different profiles, then after you have resolved attacks with one of those weapons you must, if any other weapons with the same profile are also being shot at that unit, resolve those attacks before resolving any other attacks against the target.

So basically you roll all shots of X type and do them and then move to next weapon.

So as attacker you can choose order. Then they are done completely. Then move to next weapon.

So opponent can't wait because first weapon has to be resolved completely.

However attacker also can't do "first bright lance, then finish with shurikens, then next bright lance". He also has to decide order before rolling all so if you are rolling multiple weapons together(with different coloured dice representing different weapon) remember you have to declare order FIRST. Can't wait to see result before deciding order you apply weapons.

Thank you, that makes sense. There is one thing I couldn’t find:

Where does it say the attacking unit declares the order of their attacks before rolling anything.

Can the Eldar player not shoot with the Shuriken catapults before deciding either to shoot with the Farseer or the Bright Lance next?

Note that was in case he's rolling all dice at once. Ie if he's shooting catapults and farseer and bright lance all at once(using coloured dice to separate). You can't roll them all at once and then after seeing how well you do THEN decide order.

You can certainly roll one weapon, then decide one weapon etc. But that's if you actually roll one weapon at a time.

I was just noting in case he does the (fairly common) fast way of rolling all weapons at once to ensure he doesn't gain extra information he shouldn't have if he's doing it as rules say(one weapon at a time).

Understood, thank you.