Who remembers Precision Strikes?

[rpricew]

I'm asking because I always forget to use precision strikes when assaulting/shooting with characters. If you don't know what I'm referring to, it's when a Character rolls a 6 to hit, the owning player get's to allocate that shot/wound, not the player receiving/taking the wound. This allows for sniping models out of a unit with a Precise Shot/Hit.

For the most part I'm talking about the Hive Tyrant and the Tervigon, but of course Doom, Deathleaper, Prime, OOE, and the Trygon Prime all count too.

Do you use it, and have you found that it adds a lot to the game?

[DarkGuard]

I forget them all the time. Couldn't tell you how much it adds to the game as I keep forgetting them.

And as a rules designer once said, those rules that are forgotten all the time, shouldn't be there.

[baconslice]

I forget all the time, I'm not sure in the average game it makes much difference. However I believe it's one of those kind of rules that competitive tournament players will exploit. A badass shooty character able to single out a single troublesome model. May be of benefit?

[fragile]

I used to forget all the time. But now I definitely count on Precision strikes at times. Particularly with my Flyrant and Tervigons.

[ranmafan]

I use Precision Strikes regularly - Being able to snipe the most troublesome units (like those pesky Grey Knight banner bearers) makes it much easier to survive. Also - Broodlords with Precision Strikes is beastly.

[Davor]

Do the old fashion way when you forget something and you need to remember it. Tie a small piece of string on your finger. This way when you are gaming you will see the string on your finger and you should remember what it's for.

Try it, it can help.

[zoat]

I should have remembered yesterday, the first situation they would have been useful. Playing against the new Dark Angels with their banner that makes every bolter in 6" salvo 2/4 they had some chances hitting my flyrant (even when they're unable to wound because of T8-9) and causing grounding tests.
When I first shot at their command squad I definitely rolled some sixes but just some guys with bolters died and now I see that could have been the banner.

Hmm, now I have a question. If I roll two sixes and set both precisionshots on that banner and it dies on the first wound, does the other one affect another model in that unit or is it lost?

[Davor]

I am not sure, since never encountered the situation, but since YOU have ALLOCATED the Shots, they would be wasted if the First shot killed the SM.

[sturm]

I always forget. Even though I say that I have to remember it before each games. Meh.

[ranmafan]

Wounds caused by Precision strikes are lost if the targeted model dies before all wounds are allocated. A worthwhile tradeoff IMO - sniping that Melta/Plasma/Banner/Character/Heavy weapon/etc. model is always worth one or two lost wounds as opposed to chewing through the layers of ablative HP (i.e normal Marines/models) to no real effect.

[retnab]

Jan 13, 2013 16:32:01 GMT zoat said:

Hmm, now I have a question. If I roll two sixes and set both precisionshots on that banner and it dies on the first wound, does the other one affect another model in that unit or is it lost?

Remember, wounds are allocated one at a time now. You'd allocate the first onto the banner and if it died then you'd get another precision strike to put on someone else.

[WestRider]

Jan 13, 2013 16:26:44 GMT Davor said:

Do the old fashion way when you forget something and you need to remember it. Tie a small piece of string on your finger. This way when you are gaming you will see the string on your finger and you should remember what it's for.

Try it, it can help.

Dude, if I tied enough string on my fingers to remember every awkward rule in 6th, I'd be wearing gloves

Precision Shots/Strikes really haven't come up much in my experience. Most of the time, it's totally irrelevant for one reason or another (going to wipe the whole Unit anyhow, stuck in a Challenge, got my positioning right to kill that dude with regular WA, etc.), and the rest of the time, the 6s just don't seem to come up. Or else they then fail to Wound.

[coredump]

I forget lots of stuff, on a pretty regular basis.... I wonder how I ever manage to win a game sometimes....

Special rules, Psy powers, MC HoW, etc etc

[halos]

Yeah, you allocate wounds one at a time, so as far as I'm aware you'd take each Precision hit seperately ie. 'Okay, first precision wound on that guy' *rolls save* pass.
'Alright, second precision wound on the same guy' *rolls save* fails.
'Great, next precision wound on a different guy' etc etc

I always remember precision shots for shooting, dakka-tyrants love them for sniping out hidden fists/meltas/banners/whatever.

However I do normally forget that you can use them in melee as well as in shooting.

Also I constantly forget the very existence of Fear and Hammer of Wrath, never mind the particulars.

[lordbob]

Yeah, it still follows the same rules for saves, so you still only allocate a wound at a time and then make saves until either the wound pool is empty or the unit is dead.