Question on armour of Russ and a storm shield interaction

[Havok13]

It states that the barer of the armour of russ has a 2+ save characteristic. Therefore if that model also got a storm shield, which states +1 to armour saving throws, then he would be on a 1+ armour save.

 

Is this right?

[Lord Raven 19]

No, because saving throws of 1 always fail, it is the same as a 2+ save when in cover, you just get to ignore the first point of AP.

[Dominoris]

It states that the barer of the armour of russ has a 2+ save characteristic. Therefore if that model also got a storm shield, which states +1 to armour saving throws, then he would be on a 1+ armour save.

 

Is this right?

Yes it is.  Just remember that natural rolls of 1 always fail but you are at 1+ armor save for AP purposes.

[Havok13]

Yeah, sorry I understand that. I just realised that individual described above would get the same save as a terminator with a storm shield 1+ save. Obviously 1 always fails but you can ignore first point of ap. I had been playing as 2+ save with the storm shield.

[Interrogator-Chaplain Ezra]

Which leads to some hilarity when you remember that per the rules, only unmodded 1s are auto-fails.

[Karhedron]

Given that Chainswords are AP-1, I think there is definite value in 1+ saves to help protect your Character(s) from the units that can throw buckets of dice at them.

[Kallas]

Which leads to some hilarity when you remember that per the rules, only unmodded 1s are auto-fails.

 

Well, Storm Shields add +1 to the saving throw roll, not the save characteristic. So that 'modified ones' loophole has been closed.