Yes, most of these questions have been hashed over and over again numerous times. Many of them are big grey areas that are either unanswerable by the rules or played the opposite of the RAW by most players.

1) RAW, no. The Nueral shredder is not defined as being a single-handed weapon (it isn't defined at all). Since you cannot determine whether the Nueral Shredder is single or double-handed the Assassin cannot gain the +1A for having two single-handed weapons.

That said, looking at the models many people choose to play that the Nueral Shredder as a single-handed weapon and give the Attack bonus to her against the RAW.

2) The rules say after deployment but before the first turn. Infiltration deployment is still deployment, so Word in the Ear takes place after that. There are much trickier questions regarding this rule when it comes to such things as Scout moves, the Deciever's re-deployment ability and Eldrad's re-deployment ability. In many cases the answer is simply a toss-up that you'll have to randomize (i.e. dice-off) with your opponent.

3) The Nueral Shredder does not have a defined Strength value ( it has a Strength of 'X' ), much like a sinper rile or a poisioned weapon, so by the RAW it is unable to cause Instant Death attacks.

4) Template weapons don't actually hit specific models in a unit, they cause wounds and then the owning player is free to assign the wounds to whomever he chooses in the unit (within range of the template) as such the Nueral Shredder would *have* to hit the "units" Leadership value.

However, a "units" Leadership value is not defined in the rules, although most people generally play that you use the highest Ld value available.

As such, I would say that this is a true grey area in the rules that cannot absolutely be answered. But my guess would be the common interpretation/work-around would be to either use the highest Ld available in the unit or to roll seperately for models with seperate Ld values (and then force the owning player to apply those wounds to those models).

5) Yes, by the RAW a Callidus jumps back at the start of the Assault phase which would allow her to declare another charge (if it is her Assault phase) against any valid enemy unit (including the one she was just locked with) or the opposing unit to declare a charge (if it is her opponent's Assault phase) against any valid target (including the Assassin).

6) By the RAW an Eversor can never fire his pistol twice and then charge. Models that remain stationary to fire a pistol twice (and the Eversor always counts as being stationary when firing its pistol) aren't allowed to charge. The only exceptions to this rule are models that may move and fire heavy weapons and models that always count as stationary when firing rapid fire weapons. The Eversor has neither of these abilities so he cannot fire his pistol twice and then charge.

That said, this ruling is ludicrous and I think you'll be hard pressed to find someone who insists on playing this situation RAW.

7) I don't see why those wounds wouldn't  count towards combat resolution. The wounds were certainly inflicted by units locked in combat with each other and there are all sorts of different crazy special rules that allow models to cause wounds in a variety of ways. I would say yes because the combat resolution rules simply state that you count up the total number of "wounds inflicted by each side" which is certainly broad enough to cover wounds caused by the bio-meltdown.

8) Yes, the Eversor gets +1 Attack for having two single-handed weapons. The Neuro-gauntlet is defined as a close combat weapon and all pistols also count as close combat weapons (pg 46 of the rulebook), so having both of those would provide the model with the +1 Attack bonus.

9) No, why would he? There is no indication that the model is armed with two single-handed weapons.

10) No, why would he? There is no indication that the model is armed with two single-handed weapons.

11) There is no special rule for Tyrant Guard, I think you're remembering 3rd edition. Its just the Hive Tyrant is fully part of the unit with the Tyrant Guard so cannot normally be picked out. And yes, the Vindicare's ability allows him to target the Tyrant within that unit.

You're welcome. It helps to be at work late at night with lots of time on my hands (some days).

As for "tournaments" I don't know what your goals are. For me, there is very little worth arguing over and ususally I try to guage what those issues will be before the game and get them over with. For the most part I tend to just play with however my opponent wants to do it, so long as we haven't already been playing it an opposite way up until that point.

When it comes to the double or single handed weapon issue, the thing you have to remember is that whole lot of weapons in codices are not defined as being either single or double-handed. A LOT of people just gloss over this issue and simply play it based on the weapon the model is holding, and really that's probably the easiest way to play it simply because of how many actual weapons in the game aren't defined.

The 'ruling' I came up with for my (and the Adepticon) FAQ was to handle the situation as I feel most people naturally play the issue:

4. When wounding with the Neural Shredder, do you use the leadership values of each individual model hit as their respective toughnesses, or do you apply the squad's leadership value (i.e. 9 instead of 8 because you have a Veteran Sergeant upgrade) and/or rules such as Rites of Battle?

Posted By MagickalMemories on 11/08/2007 9:52 AM
IMO, the rules are concise on this. Weapons in your off hand that are classified as CCW or pistol get you an extra attack in HtH. A Neural Shredder is not defined as a pistol.

No, the vet is a possible casaulty also...Majority toughness rules don't limit who can be taken as a casaulty.

Rites only lets you use the leadership for tests...Not a replacement for the leadership stat, so won't help with the shredder.

Models in base-to-base contact with a pistol/close combat weapon in each hand have an extra +1 Attack.

Engaged models with two single-handed weapons... have an extra +1 Attack for every turn of close combat...