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Say I have a unit of Guardsmen with a 4+ save. They get hit and failed a wound roll with a weapon that has atleast AP -3. Now they have to roll a saving throw of 7+, since a 7+ is impossible on a D6. Are they automatically destroyed or do i still get to roll a saving throw and hope for a 6 result?

BasJustinian wrote:
Say I have a unit of Guardsmen with a 4+ save. They get hit and failed a wound roll with a weapon that has atleast AP -3. Now they have to roll a saving throw of 7+, since a 7+ is impossible on a D6. Are they automatically destroyed or do i still get to roll a saving throw and hope for a 6 result?

They get no save. Or rather, their save fails no matter what you roll.

Also, strictly speaking the modifier is to the dice roll not the save itself.

So you save is still 4+, but the six possible rolls on the dice are 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, all of which are less than 4+ and thus all of which fail.

Crucially, you would still actually MAKE the roll, because we're starting to see abilities that trigger on unmodified save rolls of 6.