Jokaero and Shooting

[Tograth]

Hi all,

 

one thing that has been bugging me about jokaero are their digital weapons:

 

Can a jokaero move and shoot their digital weapons as, say, a multimelta or lascannon?

[Seahawk]

They fire as those weapons, including all the rules to do so, which would include being Heavy weapons. They cannot move and fire the multi-melta or lascannon.

[KnowThyEnemy]

I've got another jokearo question, if you don't mind me asking it here Tograth. Their D6 ability they get to roll for (name is escaping me) says they get +1 for each jokearo after the first in the unit. I've heard people say that there is no infinite loop caused by this and then ive heard there is. what im thinking is with 6 jokearo, thats +5 to the dice roll, meaning no matter what you roll itll be a 6 the first time. now you roll 2 dice (because of what 6 says to do) and the original dice roll cant be a 6 again (no duplicate rolls). so what does this dice become if not a 6? does it get discarded? do you downgrade by 1? do you not add the +5 to it like you did initially? do you just get to choose? or is this something thats already been asked in the FAQ post? :confused:

[Seahawk]

That one is already in the FAQ thread.

[Inquisitor_Fox]

i've been thinking... add, say 5 jokearo, and 7 gun servitors with plasma cannons and an ordo hereticus inquisitor equipped with a Psyocculum. you'll always ghet two upgrades, can fire 5 lascannons and the Pcannons at any squads containing a Psyker at BS 10... where is the flaw in this squad?

[KnowThyEnemy]

none. just imagine, if you will, shooting all those zoanthropes/hive tyrants/tervigons/etc with some big-ole lascannon goodness

[T3mpl@r Crusade]

I am pretty sure the rolling works like this:

 

you have 5+ for the jokearo, easily giving a 6 and up roll.

 

you now have to roll for "the works". Taking 2 dice, roll. Take the unmodified result for what happens to the squad.

 

Imagine, 36" range meltas *drool*

[Freman Bloodglaive]

i've been thinking... add, say 5 jokearo, and 7 gun servitors with plasma cannons and an ordo hereticus inquisitor equipped with a Psyocculum. you'll always ghet two upgrades, can fire 5 lascannons and the Pcannons at any squads containing a Psyker at BS 10... where is the flaw in this squad?

 

You mean other than only getting three gun servitors in a squad? Also, two Jokaero is the best option because you'll never get a 1 on the roll.

[Wildfire]

The Jokero special rule specifically states "Each time you roll". Not sure how people think rerolls don't have the bonus.

 

i've been thinking... add, say 5 jokearo, and 7 gun servitors with plasma cannons and an ordo hereticus inquisitor equipped with a Psyocculum. you'll always ghet two upgrades, can fire 5 lascannons and the Pcannons at any squads containing a Psyker at BS 10... where is the flaw in this squad?

 

You can't have 7 plasma servitors. You don't always get a result of a 6 from 5 Jokero. And even if it was, automatically getting a 6 every roll means you get no upgrades at all. Besides all that, you're spending 315 on 10 T3 models that can only shoot at one target each turn. So yeah, lots of flaws.