Had a game the other day that with a massive combined assault between some terminators and truck load of Necrons and it resulted some debate about the rule interpretation.
Situation:
6 chaos terminators + 1 Obliterator assaulting a formation of 3 Monoliths with intermingled (2 independant) pylons and a C'tan (Deciever). See picture.
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Questions:
The attacker has to then assign the number of attack dice to going to WE's before rolling. Which was fine. The Rules state:
"3.2.1 If a formation includes both war engines and non-war engine units then an attacker must state whether any attacks he makes on the formation will be directed at the war engines or the other units in the formation. Attacks directed at the war engines can only be allocated against war engines if they hit, while attacks directed at other units may not be allocated to the war engines in the formation.
He assigned his CC attacks to the WE's since the Pylons are not skimmers. The issue arose when 5 hits were rolled with the CC weapons that would be 2 to each pylon and one to the C'tan? Or would they all have to be assigned to the Pylons since CC attacks cannot hit skimmers if the Player controlling the skimmer chooses to using their FF. The rules say:
"All units have two assault values: a close combat value and a firefight value. Units that are in base-to-base contact with the enemy use the close combat value, while units that are not in base contact but are within 15cm and have a line of fire to the enemy can use their firefight value. Units that are armed only with close combat weapons and do not have any small arms or other ranged weapons may only attack if in base contact with the enemy."
So the defending player would assign hits how how:
A. 2 CC hits to one Pylon, 3CC hits to the other pylon.
B. 2 CC hits to each pylon and one to the C'tan.
Or do you need to assign attacks to each WE independently if there are multiple different types (skimmer vs Non skimmer) before hand? I guess it could have been the same case We's aside if the pylons weren't pylons but Necron infantry, would the CC hits carry over to the skimmers if they were in base to base with both infantry and and the skimmers?
So if you had 2 infantry and 3 skimmers, the infantry out front and 4 terminators engaging them that did say 7 hits. Would the hits carry over on the skimmers?
We played option B.
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