Beam and ruins.

[gloomfang]

Getting off the whole can Beam hit flyers I have different question about Beam.

When using a Beam power to target units in a ruin do you have to declare the level you are shooting at or does it hit every model on the line no matter what floor it is on?

I know beam can shoot through walls of ruins and just drop the S by 1 and it looks like units hit in the ruin will still get cover saves (A nail in my Template theory I realize). If it can hit units on multiple levels would it drop the S by 1 for each level the line passes through?

I hit this issue today with a friend I as there is no rules for how Beam works that won't start a 2 hour debate we just decided that I had to declare a floor as regular shooting, blasts and Templates all had to declare a floor.

They need a FAQ STAT.

[infornography]

you target a point. Everything touched by the line between the psyker's head and that point gets hit.

If you target a point that is on the third floor of a ruin then you check to see which models would be intersected by the line vertically as well as horizontally.

Make sense?

[Jabberwocky]

Though it does say everything 'under the line' as opposed to everything the line passes through.

I expect they only ever imagined the line being traced along the ground.

I'd say it needs house ruling really.