Ignores Cover - silly question?

[Valkyrion]

A lot of Torrent weapons have ignores cover - why, when you don't roll to hit?

I feel like I'm missing something blindingly obvious! 

[Lathe Biosas]

I think the idea is that it's hard not to get wet when sprayed with a fire hose... or a tad toasty when sprayed with a flame thrower.

 

In 40k, these short ranged weapons will hit you if you get too close. 

 

 

[Valkyrion]

No, I mean why grant a weapon that doesn't roll to hit an ability that ignores the BS modifier for having the benefit of cover? 

[Dr. Clock]

Because the rules haven't been changed since the Spring (10th edition) when cover reduced weapon AP instead of Hit roll.

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[Valkyrion]

Ah, okay. So when the codexes are updated, any weapons that had TORRENT, IGNORES COVER will lose the Ignores Cover bit due to redundancy? 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Probably - as you correctly noted, it is simply a legacy issue, so it makes sense that it would be removed.  And for my recollection, I don't think any of the many torrent weapons in the new orks codex have ignores cover - for example, none of ones in the revealed orks datasheets post on Warcom do.

Edited September 18 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Valkyrion]

Thanks all, I never played 10th so I've happened upon an oddity I don't need to concern myself with any longer.