Following on from another thread.

My Shadowsword takes 5 points of unsaved damage, having already taken 1 point of damage in a previous turn.

Do we roll for 2 criticals, or 5?

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No idea. I would assume it's 5. There doesn't seem to be any reference to 'max capacity'.

My concern is those units that get a random movement. If a Warhound cops two criticals from the same firing action, does it stagger twice?

Morgan Vening

You would roll for 2 criticals.

FAQ
Q: In the rulebook in section 3.2.3 it
says to roll for a Critical Hit for every
hit made on a War Engine. Do you
actually roll of each hit or for each
point of damage that the WE takes?
A: Roll for a Critical Hit for each point of
damage not for each hit. Only damage to a
we can potentially cause a Critical Hit, not
just hitting the War Engine with fire.

...Only damage to a
we can potentially cause a Critical Hit, not
just hitting the War Engine with fire.

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But it only takes 3 points of damage not 5 despite how many failed saves it makes it can only take 3 points of damage.

The mention of hits is in regards to the rulebook at 3.2.3 misrepresenting hits as failed armour saves and being misleading.

FAQs are not reviewed and parsed out carefully like rules are.  Also, they are written in response to a specific question.  That particular FAQ was a response to the critical hit rules which confuse "hits" and "damage" in their text.  It was intended to clarify whether a WE had to roll for every hit, or only those that caused damage.  It doesn't address this question.

I think it can be done either way.

Personally, I'd go with 5, as the WE did actually suffer 5 unsaved hits, each of which did a theoretical point of damage.


Plus, if you're hitting it with that much damage, you should have a pretty good chance of getting a huge explosion.  

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I'm with Neal. It's not clear one way or the other, so go with the most cinematic version, i.e. the version with the highest chance of stuff exploding.

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I've always played with 'dc lost' number of critical hit attempts, although I can see the funny in allowing more than that.

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