Ability Stacking Clarification

[Valkyrion]

If a unit has Sustained Hits 1 and Lethal Hits then any natural 6's to hit score an additional hit and that additional hit also automatically wounds, yes?

 

Lethal Hits + Devastating Wounds - the auto wounds from Lethal Hits do not become devastating wounds, right? Because there's no To Wound roll.  Am I forced to accept the Critical Hit nature of Lethal Hits and deny myself the possibility of Devastating Wounds? Or can I just treat 6's as hits rather than critical hits?

 

If a unit with BS4+ gains +BS and +To Hit, they stack to become 2+ to hit, yes? But if a unit found themselves with multiple sources of +1 to hit, or +1 BS, they wouldn't stack with themselves - also yes? (also vice versa with negative modifiers)

Similarly, adding +1 to S and gaining +1 to wound could lead to a +2 bonus depending on the T threshold; e.g S7 vs T8 wounds on 5+, but gaining +1S and +1 to Wound would improve that to 3+. Or is there an order of events here - i.e S7 gaining +1 to wound becomes 4+, then adding +1 S become meaningless, but adding S first then gaining +1 to wound makes a big difference.

 

Finally, can I Command reroll a positive result? For instance, in my shooting phase I have one guy with a plasma pistol left in combat and I'd like to Hazard him to death so that the enemy unit can be freely targeted. I can't see where it says you can't do this, but it seems a little rum!

 

Thanks!

 

[W.A.Rorie]

 

27 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

If a unit has Sustained Hits 1 and Lethal Hits then any natural 6's to hit score an additional hit and that additional hit also automatically wounds, yes?

no it is just one automatic wound and an additional hit you have roll a wound for.

 

27 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

Lethal Hits + Devastating Wounds - the auto wounds from Lethal Hits do not become devastating wounds, right? Because there's no To Wound roll.  Am I forced to accept the Critical Hit nature of Lethal Hits and deny myself the possibility of Devastating Wounds? Or can I just treat 6's as hits rather than critical hits?

Correct lethal hits can not become devastating wounds. You could technically take the critical as “hits” to go after devastating wounds 

 

27 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

If a unit has Sustained Hits 1 and Lethal Hits then any natural 6's to hit score an additional hit and that additional hit also automatically wounds, yes?

 

Lethal Hits + Devastating Wounds - the auto wounds from Lethal Hits do not become devastating wounds, right? Because there's no To Wound roll.  Am I forced to accept the Critical Hit nature of Lethal Hits and deny myself the possibility of Devastating Wounds? Or can I just treat 6's as hits rather than critical hits?

 

If a unit with BS4+ gains +BS and +To Hit, they stack to become 2+ to hit, yes? But if a unit found themselves with multiple sources of +1 to hit, or +1 BS, they wouldn't stack with themselves - also yes? (also vice versa with negative modifiers)

Similarly, adding +1 to S and gaining +1 to wound could lead to a +2 bonus depending on the T threshold; e.g S7 vs T8 wounds on 5+, but gaining +1S and +1 to Wound would improve that to 3+. Or is there an order of events here - i.e S7 gaining +1 to wound becomes 4+, then adding +1 S become meaningless, but adding S first then gaining +1 to wound makes a big difference.

I believe there is a +1 /-1 max to any stats

 

27 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

 

Finally, can I Command reroll a positive result? For instance, in my shooting phase I have one guy with a plasma pistol left in combat and I'd like to Hazard him to death so that the enemy unit can be freely targeted. I can't see where it says you can't do this, but it seems a little rum!

yes, you can do that. 

Edited August 8 by W.A.Rorie

[Valkyrion]

3 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

 

I believe there is a +1 /-1 max to any stats

 

 

 

Thank you for your help, and I agree, but my question was about modifying a stat AND a dice roll for the same event; Plunging fire awards +1BS (stat), gaining +1 To Hit affects the dice roll - can both apply?

 

Each time an attack is made with a [PSYCHIC] weapon, you can ignore any or all modifiers to that attack’s BS or WS characteristic and any or all modifiers to the hit roll. Attacks made with [PSYCHIC] weapons are known as psychic attacks (this can be important for the triggering of other rules).

 

This implies to me that BS/WS is separate from the Hit Roll, so gaining a +2/-2 is legit, but this may be Psychic only so I would like clarification from the B&C cognoscenti 

 

[kabaakaba]

You can have +/-1 to ballistic AND +/-1 to roll. They work and capped separately so yeah technically it's isn't +2 it's just +1 and +1 but same result.

 

Hate moderation on ballistic skill shorthand

Edited August 8 by kabaakaba