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moral save. yes or no?


a-nesuto

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ok this is a annoying problem that i ran into during a game i played today against ork player.

my Eversor assaulted a warboss and 4 nobs. i focused all my attacks on the warboss killing him. the nobs then kill my Assassin

causing him to explode and taking one of them with him. do the nobs take a moral test??

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Oddly enough, they wouldn't be covered by casualties morale checks, as it says "do not count casualties caused by close combat attacks", ast hat's covered in Losing an Assault.

 

HOWEVER! It defines "losing close combat" as simply suffering more wounds than they inflicted. Ergo, if the Eversor assassin caused more wounds than he recieved during that assault phase, he a won the assault even if he died.

a-nesuto Posted Today, 02:01 AM

the book says that a unit losing 25% or more of its models during a single phase must make a morale test. i know that units dont use the 25% rule in CC, but the nobs werent in CC anymore when the Eversor blew up?

 

No, the Eversor's bio-meltdown will still count as a CC attack since you are in the Assault phase.

Whether the Orks would take a moral check or not would depend on the combat.

 

If you assume that the Inquisitorial player also had a squad of Storm Troopers in combat with the Orks, it's theoretically possible the Eversor's bio-meltdown could've killed an Ork. Then some of the (surviving) Storm Troopers might be able to attack. The wounds the Eversors caused (in life and death) would go towards the assault totals.

 

However, if it was just the Eversor in combat, after the Eversor exploded the rules on Page 39 would seem to take precedence - 'Of course, if one side destroys the enemy it wins automatically, even if it sustained more casualties!' In such a case, the Orks wouldn't need to take a morale check as they were victorious.

 

So I suppose the answer is - it depends if there's further combat to be resolved after the Eversor's bio-meltdown. At least that's my reading of the situation.

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