Assaulting Passengers After Wreck/Explode

[GuardDog78]

I may be having a brain fart...but i just want to verify a few things...including that i may have been screwing myself over by not taking advantage of this...

p. 80 of the BRB states that if a unit pops a transport with shooting, that same unit can charge the disembarked passengers in the assault phase...am i interpreting that correctly?

Also...was this a 6e change or was this the same in 5e and i was nerfing myself in 5e too?

[halos]

Yeah you can charge the occupants of a transport vehicle if you shot at the vehicle, you could do the same thing in 5th.

It's a pretty useful thing to bear in mind.

[GuardDog78]

I only came into 5e towards the end...and apparently my group of friends (all with shooty type builds) never realized it...it was just kind of taken as you can only charge what you shot at...so no more vehicle.means you can't charge... ARGH!!!!! To think if all the biomass I've missed out on....

By the way Halos...love your batreps...keep'em coming... I just downloaded Vassal to give it a go myself...

[coredump]

No, that rule was in there from the beginning of 5E.

The change in 6E is that now *any* unit that shot at the transport can assault the passengers, in 5E it was only the unit that actually destroyed the transport.

[tylertt]

Say you have one weapon in a unit that was stronger and you fired it first and it destroyed the vehicle. Would the rest of the unit be able to fire now at the exposed passengers? Or in regards to shooting is it all or none at the vehicle itself only?

[commandersasha]

Nope, all weapons must be fired at the same target,as shooting is simultaneous. You can destroy the transport with one of your broods first, then shoot at the freshly unwrapped contents with a different brood.

[tylertt]

Darn, I figured my Warriors Venom cannon could hopefully make quick work of some transports, then feast with my strangler lol .

Good to know now though for this weekends games!

[GuardDog78]

^^^How do your warriors have a venom cannon and barbed strangler? You're only allowed oneor the other per unit...

[tylertt]

Was not even thinking on that one. I meant to put deathspitters lol. I have two units of Warriors actually though, one with Barbed and one with Venom.

I always just think of them as one collective group for some reason though.

[Lanesend]

^ Well, that is understandable.
Sadly it is pretty rare these days that you see more than one group of warriors in an army list, if any......

[GuardDog78]

^^^True enough...i really want them to be feasible again in the next codex. It's sad that our "terminator" equivalent model is considered so fragile...

[tylertt]

I honestly really enjoy the warriors and ravaners. Both playing, and also just the look of them.

I really really hope for some T5 in our next update. I want to use them more often without ID being a constant fear.

On another funny note, I did not even realize when a transport blows up the passengers take a S4 hit not a S3.... so many more kills would I have had lol...

[Raven]

It's fun popping a Guard/Eldar transport and watching all their guys inside die. Which brings up a question, when determining who dies when a transport blows up my gaming group has been rolling for each wargear group individually (ie. 1 sergeant, 3 plasma guns, 6 flashlight guys) is that the correct of doing it or is it supposed to be done differently?

[GuardDog78]

That seems like a fair way to do it...that way they don't pick and choose to keep units that are kitted to their benefit. They may like the sarge, 2 plasma and a single las...instead of just opting to lose 4 lasguns...

[WestRider]

I think you're supposed to allocate randomly, after determining how many failed Saves you end up with. Not entirely sure, but that usually seems to be the way it works when not specifically stated in 6th.