Confusion with rending

[theredcorsair]

Ok here's what I understand the rules as.

On a roll of 6, rending weapons countas a power weapon and add vehicular penetration abilities.

I'm feeling as if this is wrong, please tell me if it is.

[Bran Scalphunter]

Basically, on a 6 to Wound in Shooting, a Rending Weapon auto-wounds (so a S1 Rending Weapon could hurt a T10 critter) and counts as AP2. Against armored targets, it adds a further d3 to the AP roll. A Assault cannon, for example, can have a potential AP of 15 (6 Weapon strength + 6 roll +3 from Rending).

 

In close combat it auto-wounds and counts as a power weapon, with the same thing against armor.

[Legatus]

In 4th Edition the effect happened for every attack roll or to hit roll of 6, but that was changed with 5th Edition. Now rending weapons hit as normal, and if any of the to-wound rolls is a 6, that roll will wound automatically and ignore armour. Against vehicles it is the armour penetration roll.

[theredcorsair]

But a 6 always wounds.

So if it gets a 6 it will be ap2.

Is that right?

I think it is.

[Legatus]

See Rulebook page 31 for rending ranged weapons and page 42 for close combat weapons.

[theredcorsair]

Now what, I think I understand.

[Steelmage99]

But a 6 always wounds.

 

Uhm...you need to be carefull with that assumption. Some Wraithlords and Carnifexes might disagree.

[Bran Scalphunter]

And the bigger Daemons. Don't forget the imaginary, stability-challenged gribblies.

[theredcorsair]

Oh, point. But most weapons with rending can wound all of those. (i.e. only assault cannon)

[theredcorsair]

Grr... Double post!

[Frosty the Pyro]

more than just the assult cannon and sniper weapons can rend. A great deal of tyrinid units have rending, as do many deamons, and shrikes power claws.

[chaplain_quint]

And the bigger Daemons. Don't forget the imaginary, stability-challenged gribblies.

 

Do deamons still have the deamonic instabilty?

[theredcorsair]

And the bigger Daemons. Don't forget the imaginary, stability-challenged gribblies.

 

Do deamons still have the deamonic instabilty?

 

Nope, fluffy if they had it, but then they just wouldn't be very reliable.

[Frosty the Pyro]

no they dont, deamon are 100% stable in the materium now

[Captain Malachi]

Well, until they get shot, then they die. :lol:

[eyescrossed]

Well, until they get shot, then they die. :(

No, they're just banished to the warp :blink:

[Hlakir]

But a 6 always wounds.

 

Uhm...you need to be carefull with that assumption. Some Wraithlords and Carnifexes might disagree.

 

With a Rending weapon it's not really an assumption, but a fact.

[Bran Scalphunter]

The first quote is from the OP saying normal 6's always wound- which is not true. With Rending, yes, a 6 always wounds, but that's a special case.