Hey Guys,

This one came up tonight.
I targeted a Questor (or any other war-engine) with a falcon unit containing 2 firestorms. I scored 3 hits, 1 firestorm, 2 falcon lances.
In what order are the hits allocated? There is no special rule for weapons with lance for allocation order (unlike macro weapons), so are they considered normal hits? Since it's owners choice, my opponent allocated the lance hits towards the shields and the firestorm hit vs the war-engine.
We couldn't find anything in the faq or swordwind. Or are we just to drunk to read?

Any thoughts? add to Faq?

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Imperial Guard
Space Marines
Eldar

This was discussed and a proposal was put forward that wherever possible, hits should be allocated so that special rules have an effect. However, a lot of people are against it, so it didn't become the FAQ.

Per the standard rules, your opponent applies them in whatever order they like, meaning such abilities will often be wasted.

To be fair though Falcons don't actually have Lance attacks, so it worked out for the best.

Falcons have pulse attacks which means they get 2 x shots on their pulse lasers as per the 2008 FAQ rules changes.

Probably a firestorm/fire prism formation then.

From Swordwind?

Cheers for the replies guys,



Doh! that's what you get when trying to play intoxicated . Fortunatly, we rolled to see what rules to use and ended up using the normal targetting rules. So no man overboard there.

It kind of deminishes the usefullness of lances firing on War engines though. Oh well, just something to keep in mind for the next time.

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- No plan survives contact with the enemy -

Imperial Guard
Space Marines
Eldar

Yep... and ignore cover... and disrupt... and salvos with mixed MW/TK.

Ah, subtle point, but when shooting at a mixed AV and War Engine unit, you must declare which shots are targetting the WEs and which are targetting the AVs. This will allow you to direct Lance shots at the war engines in such a case.