WH40k 3rd Rules clarification v4.pdf

Chapter Approved – Warhammer 40,000 Main Rules Clarifications (v4.0)

Shooting

1. Shots from a flamer may not be repositioned, but the flamer template must

be placed so that it will affect the maximum number of models in the target

unit.

2. When shooting at units partially in cover, hits are allocated to models in the

open first. After hits are allocated, saves are taken.

3. When repositioning a Blast template on your unit after an opponent has hit

it, you may reposition it so that it covers enemy models as long as it still

covers at least as many of yours as it did originally.

4. When a unit fires multiple Blast templates on the enemy (say a Devastator

squad firing four frag missiles), and several missiles hit, place one Blast

template and multiply that by the number of hits to determine how many

models might be wounded.

5. When a barrage lands in close combat, everyone underneath can be hit.

6. Troops assaulting a vehicle with a WS attribute may not be shot at, but

those assaulting a vehicle without a WS attribute may be.

7. Pistols are just like rapid-fire weapons in that if you fire twice you can't

assault.

8. Markers that are placed by a player – whether they use the large or small

Blast template – and which do not have to test for scatter may be

repositioned.

9. A unit must test for pinning each time it suffers casualties from a pinning

attack from a different enemy unit.

10. The only circumstances in which crossfire does not destroy a falling back

enemy unit are when the unit’s fall back path passes through:-

• A unit that forced it to fall back in close combat;

• A unit which is falling back itself or which has performed a sweeping

advance or consolidate earlier in the same Assault phase;

• A unit which is pinned;

• A unit that is separated from them by impassable terrain (in this case,

the falling back unit would divert around the impassable terrain

anyway).

11. Only terrain and vehicles block line of sight to a vehicle.

12. If a model has +1 Strength and a power fist you should double their

Strength before adding the +1.

13. When firing weapons from a bike only those weapons actually built-in to

the bike (normally a twin bolter) count as being stationary if the bike

moves. Any other hand-held weapons such as bolt pistols, plasma pistols,

plasma guns etc. count as moving if the bike moves. The Bikers Shooting

section on page 94 of the rulebook is quite clear about this.

Weapons

1. Use the target model’s original Toughness for working out instant kills. No

modifiers for things like bikes, wargear or other special abilities are taken

into account (for example, in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, taking the

Mark of Nurgle will add +1 to the model’s Toughness as it confers

Daemonic Resilience, but you’d use the original Toughness for instant kill

purposes).

2. Sniper rifles affect the Wraithlord, Avatar, and Greater Daemons.

3. Cover from an Ordnance barrage attack is determined from the location of

the centre of the blast. Cover is assessed for non-barrage ordnance based

on the firer’s position relative to the target.

4. Multiple types of grenades can be used in the same turn.

Assaults

Note: These clarifications refer to the rulebook assault system. They do

not apply to the revised Assault rules presented in White Dwarf 273

(UK).

1. Outnumbering is calculated on a unit-by-unit basis, so even if one model

from a unit is fighting, he’ll get the benefit of the rest of his unit backing him

up when it comes to intimidating the opposition. Likewise, if the models

actually fighting are killed but there are a million more of them in the unit,

they’ll still outnumber the unit they were fighting.

2. When determining if a side is outnumbered in a multi-unit combat, work it

out as whole sides, just like totalling up wounds inflicted in multiple

combats.

3. A unit that declares a charge but fails to get any models into contact due

to, for example, difficult terrain, does not fight a close combat even if it has

models within 2” of the enemy. Note that if the charging models do not

make contact, they are not moved at all.

4. Because units can fight more than one enemy unit in a close combat, the

attacks of the unit must be allocated before the dice are rolled. Attacks

must therefore be allocated against enemy in base-to-base contact or

within 2” if a model is not in base-to-base contact. If equal priorities exist

then you may choose a target. Enemy characters (including unit upgrades

such as Nobs) are always treated as being in a separate unit for the

purposes of allocating attacks.

5. You may allocate attacks made by a character against a specific target

model in an enemy unit if the enemy model is in base-to-base contact with

him. These hits do not then carry through to hit other enemy models if the

original target is killed.

6. You may allocate attacks against a model with different WS or T to the rest

of the unit.

7. When removing casualties then the requirement that all models within 2”

must be removed before those more than 2” away applies within each

target unit as described above. For example, a unit of Chaos Space

Marines with three men and a Champion in mêlée (or within 2”), and three

others more than 2” away, suffers five casualties on the unit and none on

the Champion. The three Marines in mêlée, and two of those in support,

are killed even though the Champion remains within 2”.

8. Models with multiple Wounds are removed when the unit they are in has

taken enough wounds to eliminate one whole model, regardless of

whether the casualties were inflicted on different models. The owning

player chooses which model falls casualty. This is subject to the rule that

characters may allocate attacks to a model in base-to-base contact.

9. You determine whether a unit falling back from an assault is destroyed by

the pursuit based on the dice rolled not the final position of the models.

10. All Morale check modifiers are based on the situation at the time the test is

taken.

11. When unengaged models move in to help their comrades under the Partial

Contact rule, they do not count the +1 Attack for assaulting.

12. Any squad with line of sight and range to the target can shoot at a squad

making a sweeping advance.

13. When a unit contains models that can move at different speeds, all models

move and assault at the speed of the slowest.

14. Models that are charged in a sweeping advance may fire their weapons as

if they had been stationary during the Movement phase.

15. When making an advance after wiping out the enemy, you only need to

advance towards the enemy. So, as long as you end up closer to at least

one enemy unit more than when you started, all is well.

16. A squad partially in base-to-base contact that has failed a Barrage Pinning

test may not move the unengaged models into combat.

17. Voluntary fall back may not be used unless specifically stated in

competition rules or agreed with your opponent before the game.

18. Any models that are part of a unit in close combat and are supporting the

combat (ie. are within 2" but not engaged) count as being locked in combat

and may not shoot or move.

19. Grenade types, such as frag and plasma, are only ever used when the unit

possessing them is assaulting. In other words, if they are being assaulted

by a unit in cover (ie. a unit with Stormcaller cast on it or a unit of shadow-

skinned Mandrakes) the grenades are not used.

20. After an assault, if one side flees and the other pursues, each side rolls its

dice and adjusts the score for the terrain that will be encountered during

the fall back or pursuit. The modified scores are then compared to

determine if the fleeing unit is caught. The actual placement of the models

is never relevant.

Morale

1. A single squad can be forced to make multiple pinning checks in a turn, or

a Pinning check and a Morale check.

2. You may not make a Last Chance regroup attempt on the same turn you

were defeated in an assault and forced to fall back.

3. Morale, Pinning and regrouping are all Leadership based tests. Psychic

tests are different, and do not count as Ld tests as far as the rules are

concerned.

4. If a unit is broken in close combat and falls back into a unit that is currently

still in close combat, you treat the mêlée as a piece of impassable terrain

and fall back around it.

Characters

1. Characters joining a unit do not increase its size for Morale checks.

2. If a character is within 2" or less of two or more squads, he must designate

which, if either, he is in, although he may change the designation from turn

to turn.

3. You can’t shoot at an Independent Character if he’s within 6" of a unit

(even if it’s a vehicle and he’s not), unless he's the closest model at short

range (12” or less). If he has joined a unit you may not shoot at him even if

he is the closest model within short range.

4. An Independent Character cannot leave a unit he joins, which

subsequently falls back, until it regroups, and therefore if the group can't

regroup, the character can’t leave it!

5. If an Independent Character has joined a unit, which later falls back, and is

subsequently eliminated (by shooting, for example), the character can then

test for regrouping by him.

6. Note that Independent Characters with their own retinue do not entirely

cease to be Independent Characters. The statement to this effect in

various codices is really only there to indicate that they may not wander off

and leave their retinue, instead staying in unit coherency. If the retinue is

wiped out, the Independent Character status is reinstated. The character

and retinue are counted separately for Victory Point purposes so if the

retinue is wiped but the character is unhurt you would get the VP for the

retinue and not half of the VP for the character and unit combined. The

main exception to this is a Blood Angels Chaplain and Death Company

where there is a single points value for both.

7. If a unit is wiped out by shooting, except for the character, he does not

have to take a Morale check as if he were the last man as long as he is an

Independent Character who only joined the unit. He then regroups without

worrying about the rule for being in a unit below 50%.

8. If a Fearless character has joined a unit that is not Fearless and

subsequently falls back, the Independent Character must fall back with it. If

a Fearless unit is joined by a non-Fearless character then the unit must

take Morale tests and will fall back if the character does.

9. In Codex: Dark Eldar, the Reaver description says “Characters riding a

Reaver jetbike may only be armed with single-handed weapons, and may

only use one at a time (they need the other hand free to control the

jetbike).” This applies not only to the Reaver jetbike but also to all other

bike-mounted models unless their codex specifies otherwise (Orks, for

example, may use additional close combat weapons).

10. An Independent Character within 2" of a squad is not automatically part of

it; you must state that he joins it during the Movement phase (and only the

Movement phase).

11. Only vehicle characters (ie. Master of the Ravenwing) can join vehicle

units.

12. It is permissible for an Independent Character to join a unit consisting of a

single Wraithlord or Talos. Independent Characters may always join units

with a normal (non-vehicle) profile but they may not, however, join other

Independent Characters.

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