You can only kill legal targets (with LoS for no indirect fire). Also, only targets you've hit by rolling the right to-hit number. In your example, you could split your dice between normal to-hit and -1 to hit. Units who were hit by the normal to-hit would take saves (only within los ones), and then the same for -1 to hit (only within los).

Q: When shooting at a formation
where some units are in cover and
others are not you can elect whether
to shoot at targets in cover (in which
case you take the -1 penalty) or not
(in which case you don't). What is the
scope of this decision?
• The entire shooting formation?

• Each shooting weapon type?

• Each shooting unit?

• By damage type (AT vs. AP)?

• Each shooting weapon?

• Unspecified, work it out with your
opponent?

For example, if someone shoots at my
tactical formation, which has three
exposed rhinos and six marines in
cover, does the attacker have to take
the -1 to hit the rhinos (which is AT
fire), if he wants the tactical marines
to be potential targets for his AP fire?


A: The choice to shoot at in-cover or out-
of-cover targets must be done by the
entire formation. It can only be separated
by type of weapon fire.

If you had AT, AP, and MW fire in one
salvo, you could fire AT at out-of-cover, AP
at in-cover and MW at in-cover. Or any
other arrangement, as long as all of each
fire type (AP, AT, MW) is directed solely at
one target type (in-cover or out-of-cover).

You cannot split up targetting of a single
type of fire. If an IG infantry company had
2 units out of cover and 10 units in cover
and you were firing with, say, 8 AP shots,
you could not target 4 AP at out-of-cover
and 4 at in-cover. All the AP shots would
have to be directed at a single target type.

Not quite right Carlos, you cannot split the same type of shot between in and out of cover.
This can only be done with different Type of weapons ( AP, AT, MW ).

Looks like you've been cheating