The following special rules apply when shooting either at or with war engines. In general, war engines are treated in the same manner as armoured vehicle targets (i.e., any hit that would affect an armoured vehicle can affect a war engine).

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.

Since the rule says you MUST allocate the hits to WEs or non-WEs, the failure should fall on you (no offense).

they do, but the TK is like a new round of shooting, say you have a shadowsword shooting at 2 marines and a land raider, the marines are in front, closer than the raider, he gets lucky and hits both marines with his heavy bolters, if one marine saves, then he subsequently takes the TK hit (at least that's how we play it.... I think!)

Soooooooo I had a game the other night vs. a Kreig army list and I was firing my Manta at one of my opponent's DK infantry companies which also had some Gorgon Troop Carriers. Lighting them up, the Rail Gun hit and so did some of the other weapons that were regular AT and AP. After normal hit allocation, then came the TK hit...which my opponent put on the infantry...SO the rules lawyers in the both of us went into action.

Obviously I was aiming to take out a Gorgon and deny his units some cover saves, but he had something other in mind and toasted one of his infantry stands.

YOU know where I'm going with this. So should have the TK hit gone on the Gorgon first or was my opponent right to put it on the