Bolt Thrower Armour Save Modifier
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Bolt Thrower Armour Save Modifier
Just a quickie here - the new bolt thrower rules say that when you fire a volley of shots there is a -2 armour save modifier. Is this including the fact that the shots are strength four or is the total modifier -3?
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Yeah, it is sort of confusing, since they don't just say Strength 4, armour piercing, which would be much clearer. There is an argument to be made that in fact it causes a -2 armour save in addition to being strength 4 (for example, it would explain why they say -2 armour save instead of just saying that it is armour piercing), but 6th edition had similar wording, and in 6th it was definitely just a total of a -2 armour save.
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S4 armor piercing is essentially what it is as it yields a total -2 AS modifier. It cetainly could have been changed in the new book to be consistent with the way the AP rule is worded in the rest of the book.
People play all kind of things all different ways. Some people were playing that it suffered a multi-shot penalty. They at least made that issue go away in the new book.
People play all kind of things all different ways. Some people were playing that it suffered a multi-shot penalty. They at least made that issue go away in the new book.
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