Iron Hands IC in a non-IH unit interaction

[Catachan_recruit]

So, dumb question maybe but i wanted to be sure:

The IH legion rule states that all shooting attacks made against a non-vehicle IH model suffer -1 strength. My doubt is, if i put an IH character in a non-IH unit (say, an IH forgelord in a non-IH automata unit) does the -1 strength still apply when rolling to wound, or does the -1 apply only when assigning the succesful wounds to the IH character when determining Instant Death? Since when rolling to wound you are rolling against the general unit and not strictly only against the IH character?

[SkimaskMohawk]

Basically because of how wound allocation works, the answer is no, it doesn't kick in in mixed units, except for the instant death threshold.

 

[RoadRunna]

Suggest you take a Praevian if you want to take automata as the squad he creates has the IH rule.