Vindicare Shieldbreaker Shot

Not sure if this has been asked here before, sorry for any redundancy..

The way i understood it was i shoot, i allocate the wound, i succesfully made the to-wound roll, then if you dont have a lookout sir or fail the lookout sir or whatever the model IMMEDIATELY loses all invulns, then he can use a cover if it has one or whatever else it might have left (FnP..etc..)

Am I right?

Does shieldbreaker causes any wounds?

Or is it supposed to be like this? (quoted verbatim from dakka dakka)

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1) Vindicare Hits

2) Vindicare wounds

3) Vindicare's controlling player allocated the wound to Character X

3a) Character X's invulns are broken

4) Character X gets to LoS the wound he was allocated

5) Joe Schmo from the unit gets reallocated the wound

5a) Joe Schmo's invuln is broken

So now 2 models' inv. svs are broken..


@AK: Yes, in addition to causing AP1 wound, the target loses his inv. sv.

CikguDin wrote:

1) Vindicare Hits

2) Vindicare wounds

3) Vindicare's controlling player allocated the wound to Character X

3a) Character X's invulns are broken

4) Character X gets to LoS the wound he was allocated

5) Joe Schmo from the unit gets reallocated the wound

5a) Joe Schmo's invuln is broken

RAW-wise, this would be the way to go... but for the sake of the game (and pure logic), we should remove point 3a)

Dann-te got scared izt?

no la, it just doesn't make sense.

"Look out sir!"
"Phew! Luckily I didn't get hit by that... wtf happened to my shield?"

Bugger la Dann..your fluff is so hillarious I splurted my drink after reading it!!

On another note, if a Wraith is targeted by the shield breaker shot & loses its inv. sv, does it have any armour sv or izt now butt naked?

So Shieldbreaker did cause wounds. I thought it was like a markerlight. Once hit, remove shield. Nothing to scare about lah.

About the Wraith, if I'm not wrong, they don't have any armour in their profile, so no saves..

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought LOS was allocated before you roll to save?

yup.. Joe Schmogot to make armour saves as usual. The issue here is who will lose invul, the Character or Joe --> Joe

IMO, it would be more effective if the Shieldbreaker didn't cause any wound ala Markerlight --> cannot be LOSed.

y use my name? need to play royalty u know?

Cuz you r da chosen one!

lagi need to have royalty fees la.

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yup.. Joe Schmogot to make armour saves as usual. The issue here is who will lose invul, the Character or Joe --> Joe

The Primary target (or Joe Schmoe if he passes the LOSr) wouldn't get any armour sv cuz the shot is AP1.

So not only he'll suffer a wound with virtually no armour sv, he automatically & immediately loses any invul sv that he has. He could only make any cover sv or FnP if he has that ability.


So, what's the verdict? Do both the Primary & Joe Schmoe suffer or will the shieldbreaker shot only affect Joe Schmoe?

Obviously Joe of course. It would make no sense otherwise.

If we REALLY want to go RAW on this, the first question we should ask is,

Is Vindicare Assassin's 'Deadshot' - a Precision Shot?

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So, what's the verdict? Do both the Primary & Joe Schmoe suffer or will the shieldbreaker shot only affect Joe Schmoe?

Anyhow, there's no "verdict" here to be made, it's down to you and your opponent; follow RAW or your own fair interpretation of it because both are correct. RAW doesn't necessarily make the assassin OP, he's just one guy with only a minimum 5 shots to make, how many character's/models' invulnerable saves he's gonna destroy? Against Chaos Daemons, there's none.

I think when we discuss rules here, it's merely to write down our thoughts on the rules or confirm them when it's clear and supported, not to 'pass statutes or lay judgement'.

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Obviously Joe of course. It would make no sense otherwise.

It's possible to argue that the Shieldbreaker was powerful enough to even affect the Primary, OR, that if you can imagine, that Joe only had enough time to stand right in front of the Primary, so close that it affected him too since you know, bullets are very fast.

I've used him a couple times against Marcus (mostly Eldar now), shieldbreaker's not easy to wound with a 4+. It's either Hellfire or Turbo Penetrator rounds most of the time.