<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "When troops are the cover save."]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/16.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net When troops are the cover save.
Like, for instance, a deffdred is walking behind a blob of boys. The shooter takes a shot at the deffdred and the dred takes a 5+'cover save.

Now, if you take the cover save, nothing happens, but shouldn't you lose an ork? Technically the shot was absorbed by cover, being an ork body.

Same should go if you're shooting thru your own troops. If the opponent decides to take a cover save and makes it, shouldn't you hit one of your own troops?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749278.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749278.page GMT When troops are the cover save. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749679.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749679.page GMT When troops are the cover save. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749718.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6749718.page GMT When troops are the cover save.
Johnnytorrance wrote:

Now, if you take the cover save, nothing happens, but shouldn't you lose an ork? Technically the shot was absorbed by cover, being an ork body.


Not necessarily the case, as in all the threads like this, you're missing the fact that cover saves in 40K combine failed shots due to both cover and concealment. If you fire a lascannon at a model standing in tall grass, and it makes its cover save, it's not that a particularly tough stalk of grass soaked up the shot, but instead the firer missed, due to not having a clear view of the target.

For units providing cover, the model is aiming for the target behind the intervening unit, trying to keep whatever's between them from ruining the shot. A successful cover save maybe means an ork boy just took a multimelta to the face, or it means that the howling scrum of boyz kept blocking the good shots, and the one he took was a bad angle. Or he got distacted by someone chuckign a choppa at his head. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6763575.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6763575.page GMT When troops are the cover save. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6764342.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/591157/6764342.page GMT