Important template notes

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So reading page 52 in the BRB I noticed a couple good things.

First, when firing a template weapon the template starts at the models base and can't touch any friendly units. This means flamers have to be on the front line of a unit, and since wounds are allocated from the front there shouldn't be many/any alive when you get in assault range to WoD you. If they try to hide the flamer, he simply won't be able to fire it. It also means that you can just come from an angle that denies the flamer, any angle that causes the template to even touch a friendly unit makes it unusable. WoD just got a lot less scary. Even a unit of Purifiers can be reduced to one template simply by coming from any angle but full frontal assault on a gunline.

Second, templates can't be used in tandem with a focus firing unit to abuse the out of range rule. They always just place their template as normal.

[fragile]

1. Well, it doesnt appear that you place a template when firing overwatch, so even those in the back row can Overwatch you. Also if you position with near max coherency you can be behind someone else to protect the flamers.

2. While they place their template as normal they still can abuse the focus fire. Their wounds can still be applied to units in cover.

[kenji10000]

Even if they are not closest they can still fire the template if lined up like this:

XXX---XXX
-----F-------

Not the closest, still in coherency, able to fire

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fragile, flamers can WoD from the back/middle but then they can't use there flamer normally. Id rather take 1-3 hits than as many he can cram in a template. As for focus fire, flamers have no part in it according to page 52, they are resolvrd as normal. This is mainly important as it keeps flamers from using the out of range rule that got pulled on someone in a different thread.

kenji10000 In that case the flamer could fire but wouldnt be able to pivot it so you know exactly where to avoid and you cant get flamed, so again, you can easily avoid the flamer. The Flamer would cover a very small portion of their border. So if a player wants their flamer to survive they have to keep them in positions where they won't get to angle their templates for maximum damage and they will have shorter range as well.