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Blackshields take a Wrought by War rule which "...the owning player may choose one of the following special rules to apply to their entire detachment.." One o f these is called Orphans of War has the following rule: "Non-Character models with this special rule: When within 6" of another unit of at least five friendly models with the Legion Astartes (Blackshields) special rule, the unit gains +1 Leadership (to a maximum of 10), and can re-roll all failed To Hit roll of a 1 during the Shooting phase Assault phase. They may not however benefit from the Leadership value of other models, and if they fail a Moral check in the Assault phase, D3 models from the unit are removed as casualties in addition to any other effects Character models with this special rule: Gain the Preferred Enemy (Character) special rule" Question is: do vehicles which are within 6" of a unit of 5 friendly models (say a Marauder Squad) gain the ability to re-roll ones? My opponent was of the view that Non-character models includes vehicles. His position was that if the writers wanted to exclude vehicles they would have said "Non-Character Infantry models". In the rules the definition of models is very broad "Models represent a huge variety of troops - from the massed forces of the Legion Astartes to the automata and the titanic constructs of the Mechanicum" My view as that this rule is only applicable to infantry models During the discussion it was also raised that the usage of the word "another" dictates that the unit wishing to gain the benefit of this rule must also be 5 strong - therefore if there were two units of Marauders next to each other, one was 5 strong and one was 4 strong, then neither get this rule) - not sure about this strict grammatical issue but this is for another day )