Ten Common Rules Mistakes in Warhammer 40K 10th Edition

So, let's talk about 10 slightly more confusing or unintuitive Warhammer 40k rules that might have more chances for errors than most with a round up of common mistakes in game.

Hello and welcome back to Best Tactics where today we're talking about some common mistakes and errors that might happen in game. for this one. Rounding

up a whole bunch of areas that might be a little bit more confusing or unintuitive and going with a mix of rules errors that have either seen personally in games and a few other ones that people reported when I asked you recently in some channel posts. Let's go

through a whole bunch of different areas. Talk about the rules and why they

areas. Talk about the rules and why they might confuse. Starting with a few

might confuse. Starting with a few quickfire ones and then going through a few of the sections that are a bit trickier due to their complexity.

First up, one small interesting one from the command phase is that new orders happen at the end of the command phase, not when you draw the secondary objectives. This one's the one command

objectives. This one's the one command point strategium from the mission deck that basically allows you to bin off a secondary objective that you can't do this turn and instead replace it with something new. It can be quite a big

something new. It can be quite a big deal in game impact for one given that if you draw the right objectives it might push you from defeat to victory sometimes at least for some things on planning your turn the time of it could

be kind of important. Having to declare it at the end of the command phase rather than when you draw the objectives does mean that you need to make a few decisions before then. maybe certain

other strategiums that might affect in the command phase or army rules like say orders or oath of moment or various other things that you need to make decisions about. Then if you knew the

decisions about. Then if you knew the secondary objectives ahead of time, it might make you make different decisions about those. Though I must admit this

about those. Though I must admit this one to me does feel rather unintuitive.

I think it's just player instinct that you get all the secondary objective drawing thing done first and then you move on to other decisions even if it doesn't technically work that way. Next

up, and one of the most commonly reported things that people see other players doing wrong, particularly newer players, is the moving of models.

Perhaps the classic one for players newer to the game, is to measure the movement distance from the front of the base or the vehicle that you're moving and then place it in front of that. So,

you basically gain the entire distance of the model's base or the vehicle's hole. That was maybe at least fairly

hole. That was maybe at least fairly easily corrected, at least if the player is actually doing it in good faith and accidentally.

Otherwise, one that might need correction is moving models around the end of ruins because it's only the start and the end positions that really matter with the moves. People can be tempted to sort of miss out the halfway state. So,

say for example with this dream killer car effects moving around a ruin wall.

There might be the temptation to measure just up to the corner of that ruin and then back whereas actually it needs to move really quite a lot further than that given that he's got a big base and you need to get the very back of that base around the corner of the ruin and

then move him across. Again, if you measure this one a bit lazily or badly, it could mean that your models are going far further than they're really supposed to be. And finally, when one movement,

to be. And finally, when one movement, it's quite common to forget that pivoting models exist, at least partly because this was done in a digital update mid edition for some reason. So,

it won't be printed in any of the rules books that newer players pick up. It can

be an incentive to keep your vehicles and models in the same orientation as they were, but otherwise for vehicles and things with an asymmetric base, you need to pay 2 in if you want to change the orientation of them. Though if you

do pay that 2 in, you can change that orientation as many times as you want to during their move. So it can make moving around corners a bit easier. And then

it's a 1 in for other models that aren't monster or vehicles and they're not on a circular base for things like bikes. In

theory, it's a core part of the game now. Though a lot of people just go by

now. Though a lot of people just go by the more straightforward moving model sort of rules that they had before. The

previous rule more being that no part of the model base can exceed the total movement distance. So you can't swear

movement distance. So you can't swear model around to gain loads of movement that way. Another one that often

that way. Another one that often confuses people is the order and sequencing of who gets to activate in the fight phase. Particularly when you throw fights first units into the mix. I

think this one often getting misplayed in various different ways as it's a bit of a wordy section and maybe doesn't feel super intuitive who gets to pick units to fight first. First up, the things that can activate are anything

that's actually in engagement range currently or things that have made a charge move this turn full stop.

Anything else can't be selected and that can change over the phase. Otherwise,

then it's generally a two-step system.

All units that have fights first get to activate first. Having made a charge

activate first. Having made a charge move gets you the fights first rule, but some data sheets just have it full stop like Lionel Johnson, Licas, and the Judas here. All the fights first units

Judas here. All the fights first units will activate and then all the units that don't. Within each step, the

that don't. Within each step, the players alternate activating units starting with the player whose turn it isn't, though that's not normally obvious in the normal sequence of events. Often a player might just be

events. Often a player might just be charging multiple units across the board. So all those units might have

board. So all those units might have fights first unless the enemy has any tricks that have fight first or interrupts with a two command point strategim. Generally you just get to

strategim. Generally you just get to activate with all your charging units and then the opponent might swing back.

However, if you do charge into enemy units that fight first because they get to pick the first unit. They'll usually

have chance to activate with that one before the thing that charges gets to fight. For example, here's a few melee

fight. For example, here's a few melee combats. We've got two units of two

combats. We've got two units of two space marines. One of them's charged

space marines. One of them's charged elixir and the other one has charged some termigans and then there's a redemptor dreadnaugh and screamer killer in an ongoing combat. In this situation, all the things with fights first will

get to activate first and that's the space range that charged as they charged. But also the tyrannid licter

charged. But also the tyrannid licter has it on their data sheet. That means

that because it's the player whose turn it isn't that gets to select the first unit, the licter will be the one that fights first against the intercessors.

Then the space ring player will activate with their units. So the units that charge the term against next and then the one that charged the elixir and then you get to activate with all the units that didn't have fights first. Again

starting with the player whose turn it isn't. So it makes sense for the

isn't. So it makes sense for the tyrannies player to choose the screamer killer Khan effects to activate with as he wants to get his damage in as soon as possible just with a small chance that the redemptor dreadnaugh might kill him

otherwise unless he gets to strike. Then

you go back to alternating once more. So

it to be the screamer killer then the dreadnaugh then finally those turigans if they survived. Perhaps some of the biggest mistakes and confusion happen around the fight's first units. It might

feel kind of intuitive that if you had a fight first unit that is also charging, you might have some sort of super fights first as you're getting it from two different sources. But in reality, they

different sources. But in reality, they don't actually stack in any way. So say

if you had a space marine judicier charge a tyran elixtor, it would still normally be the ler that would get the opportunity to fight first as both models have it and you alternate starting with a player whose turn it

isn't. It is also possible that fight's

isn't. It is also possible that fight's first units might sometimes be able to be hit before they get to activate if the enemy has done a charge in a clever or opportunistic way. For example, the space marine terminators have charged

with termigans, but not all of them were able to make it into engagement range.

So, they move themselves kind of close to a lic. When it comes to the fight phase, there's only two units in melee currently. The space reign terminators

currently. The space reign terminators and the tyrannid termigans. Only one of them has fights first and that's the terminators. So they'll attack first and

terminators. So they'll attack first and then they get to do the entire process of piling in, fighting and consolidating. And that means that they

consolidating. And that means that they could pile in to contact the lera, hit it in close combat, maybe even kill it and consolidate or before it even gets to a fight even though it had fights first. I feel like the bit that people

first. I feel like the bit that people don't understand quite so much for that one is that activating fight means doing the entire fight process. So pile in, fight, and consolidate. You don't pile in and then check halfway through

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for another fairly common 40k rules mistake is grouping saves that shouldn't really be grouped happening in a few different times. Maybe with feel no pain

different times. Maybe with feel no pain type saves being grouped together and also when you have multiple different saving throws in a unit such as some models having cover but some not. For

feel no pain type saves. For failed

saves, you can't roll them all together.

In general, you'll need to say roll sets of two damage individually per model and then check whether the model is slain before moving on to the next. And if

you're doing a shortcut for one wound models, maybe roll one dice for each miniature first and then only roll the second dice for miniatures that pass the first save, as if they didn't do that, they'd all be dead anyway. Perhaps more

common than that, though, is save rolling a bunch of saves against one or more models that have an improved one, and perhaps accidentally gaming in a better saving throw for your entire unit against one sequence of attacks in the first place. Say the squad of space

first place. Say the squad of space marines where there's one in cover with a better save. Take 10 wounds at AP minus two. It's maybe not too uncommon

minus two. It's maybe not too uncommon for the player to say, "Roll all 10 of those dice on the higher saving throw, saying that you're taking it on him first." When in reality, you shouldn't

first." When in reality, you shouldn't have been rolling all the dice at that improved profile. You should have been

improved profile. You should have been rolling them sort of one at a time until that one space roy dies and then go on to the lower saving throw that the rest will have when he's likely being shot down after the first few rolls. That

one's maybe a slightly more extreme and more obvious example, but it still applies to say if half the squad was in cover and half of them weren't. If say

five of them were in cover, then perhaps you should be doing them at five at a time just in case the first five all wind up failing. Another relatively

small but unpack for Warner is to get confused about the turns that units are allowed to arrive from reserve from. For

some reason, Games Workshop decided not to make this part of the core rules, but instead have it printed in the mission packs that they have. So the booklets alongside the cards in a lot of cases where the majority of normal games of Warhammer 40k basically say that

reserves can either come in on turns two and turn three but not normally turn one or turn four and five. If you just read the reserve rules from the core book, it's pretty understandable why people might want to arrive reserves on round

one or rounds four plus if there's nothing there to forbid them. One

exception to this though is the units that started on the tabletop but then went into reserve for a rule reason for one reason or another. Maybe a one command point strategium to return to reserves at the end of the enemy's fight

phase or data sheet rule like these all Alerus custodians for the units that return to reserves rather than starting there any turn is fair game and that means that potentially if the opponent goes first and the terminators go back

into reserve at the end of their turn then they could effectively get a reserver's arrival turn one. The same

applies for things wanting to arrive later game. If you return to reserves

later game. If you return to reserves then you can be coming out on turn four and turn five. Moving on to a few of the rules areas that tend to have mistakes made about them just because of the complexity of the rule sets. One that

often catches people out is which models get the benefit of cover or not. Some

basic ones are relatively easy. If it's

just one model targeting one other model, you can choose any point on the model that's shooting. And then if the opposing model isn't fully visible to your model due to an intervening terrain piece like a barricade or the edge of a

ruin wall or something, then the enemy model gets cover. A few terrain features applies a bit differently, including if you're entirely within a ruin, then you get the benefit of cover for being on the area terrain piece, but for the

majority of more normal obstacle style terrain pieces, that's the way that it works. When you've got cover, then you

works. When you've got cover, then you improve your saving throws by one, and that can cause a bit of confusion in itself as there's just one really specific exception where models are saving characteristic of three plus can't get a plus one to their saves

against AP0. That doesn't apply in

against AP0. That doesn't apply in similar sort of circumstances. Say two

plus saves against AP1. That one does work with cover. If you just got the one model firing and it's targeting [clears throat] an enemy squad, then you look at the enemy models one by one to see whether or not they get cover. So

this havoc can get full line of sight to the space marine on the left. So he

won't, but the other two will. The

middle one's partly obscured to the havoc. And as mentioned previously, it

havoc. And as mentioned previously, it means that the saves for the space marines might need to be slow rolled as effectively the units got two different saving throws against attacks made by that havoc. For area terrain, even if

that havoc. For area terrain, even if the space marines are fully visible, that can be another way to get a cover safe. This one only applies to models

safe. This one only applies to models that are wholly within the ruin base footprint. So out of that squad of space

footprint. So out of that squad of space ruins, the two on the right would get a cover save. The rest wouldn't. Again, it

cover save. The rest wouldn't. Again, it

could be a fairly common misplay to give the one that's half on and half off the ruin a cover safe, but you have to be wholly within to get that.

The other thing that can often trip people up a lot is that 40k's cover rules are weirdly generous when there's an entire squad of things shooting at the enemy as models in the target squad will gain cover as per the worst

position model in the firing squad. So

even though the havoc on the left has got some unobstructed views of a good few space marines there because the top three space marines will all have a cover save against the one on the right.

It means the top three get the benefit of cover against literally all the unit attacks including the ones that can see better. Perhaps the single most

better. Perhaps the single most unintuitive thing though is that if there's one model that just can't see at all and can't fire at all, they're still counting for whether or not the enemies will get cover. So say if you're shooting with these havocs all

completely out in the open against space marines out in the open because one member of the squad wasn't able to get around the wall and get line of sight and ruins can grant cover saves.

Basically, although space marines will technically get the benefit of cover there, this one does feel very unintuitive. though it does feel like a

unintuitive. though it does feel like a situation that no matter which way Games Workshop ruled it. It would either create some weirdness or just a whole load of micromanagement admin, you probably don't want to be determining every model's cover save from every

single model that's firing really.

Vehicles and monsters can be a bit more powerful with drawing lines of sides as they've got bigger models they can choose any point on. So against this Predator annihilator, two of the space rings wouldn't get cover against him

where one would. As drawn from the edge of the model, only one can be partly seen. And it also means that really

seen. And it also means that really quite big chunky single models can gain the benefit of cover really easily. All

it takes is one outline part of the vehicle being at least partially behind terrain. So the screamer killer kind

terrain. So the screamer killer kind effects in this case could just have one claw behind terrain and gain the benefit of cover or even just have part of its base behind cover which definitely does feel a bit weird. I can see why both

players might just assume that it didn't have cover if it was the tiniest bit that was obscured. I choose to see this thing as a bit more of an abstraction myself, representing the models trying to take cover behind nearby things in a

bit more of a dynamic way than just standing there and waiting to get shot.

That's only half the story with terrain complexities, though, as there's the other big question of what gets line of sight in the first place. And another

really common rule to get misplayed in various different ways is the obscuring ruins type rule. What can draw line of sight and what can't. I feel like one of the main causes of trouble with this one is that terrain sets vary quite so

differently. Some of them might be a bit

differently. Some of them might be a bit more obvious how they're supposed to be interpreted in Warhammer 40k. Some fun

narrative bits really might not fit into Games Workshop's rules quite so well, and a fair few house rules and ways people like to play with their own terrain set might also confuse people.

To iron out misunderstandings or mistakes, it does fill up one of the areas to be clarified before the start of the game. If there's any unclear terrain bits, it's worth denoting what their boundaries are. If you're playing with ruins rules for Warhammer 40k, it

generally assumes that the ruins that you're playing with have a base, often increasing the footprint of that ruin at least a little bit. Plenty of terrain sets out there don't really have bases, so it's often worth clarifying for the pieces that you're playing with if they

don't have one. If you do want to use the ruins area terrain style rules, another common one that could be a mistake for both players are how are you playing the windows on the ruins? As

part of the core 40k rules, if you have them, then they won't actually block any line of sights to within the ruin itself. So if you say had a guard squad

itself. So if you say had a guard squad take up residence there, they could both shoot out of the ruin and other things could shoot into the ruin to hit them.

Quite a lot of tournaments and things house rule the ruins to block line of sight at least on ground floors though and that does seem to get at least a fair amount of uptake and more casual play as well. It's a reasonable enough way to actually encourage people to go

into the ruins rather than just hang out just behind them. But if you are wanting to play that way, it's probably something that should be discussed before the game as it's not actually any part of the core 40k rules to house rule

that ground floor ruins are closed.

the actual ruin line of sight rules themselves. The general gist for

themselves. The general gist for visibility is that provided that you can physically draw line of sight, units can draw lines of sight into ruins but not out the other side of them. So in this

example, the gray rectangle represents a top down view of a ruin. The dark wall is a wall with windows. The chaos havoc can draw some physical line of sights to all three of the space rain squads, but due to the ruins obscuring rules, the

only ones they can actually shoot are the ones that squad C. They're actually

within the ruin. The ones at B are the other side of a wall. So, you'd have to shoot both in and out of the ruin, which the rules prevent. And then the one that could be a mistake that catches people out are the ones at A. There's actually

no walls in the way at all for him. But

the base of the ruin does technically block line of sight. Though I must admit that one does always feel like a bit of a weird area, and he can technically have line of sight blocked by a chunk of perfectly flat ground just because it's

the way that the ruined terrain footprint extends to. If the havoc moved too wholly within the ruin though, he'd be able to draw line of sight to all three of those, provided he could physically get line of sight to them.

And the space marines A and B would also be able to draw line of sight to him.

Games Workshop have their own diagrams that illustrate a similar sort of thing.

On the bottom left, there's a repulsor that can draw line of sights to things normally and then things that are within a ruin but not things the other side, but then if it goes wholly within the ruin, then it's able to shoot all three

things. One of the other scenarios

things. One of the other scenarios that's a better sort of mistakes as well is how to treat a model that's halfway into the ruin and halfway out when you have the space rim repulser just towing into the ruin. So it's partially inside

it but not wholly inside. In this

situation, you still can't draw line of sight outside of the ruin. So it still can't shoot those termants at the top at A. Though now it has its footprint

A. Though now it has its footprint within the ruin. The term at A can target the vehicle itself. It means that you sort of have oneway line of sight blocking. And it really does incentivize

blocking. And it really does incentivize people not just to put units partially into ruins, either hang out behind them or go wholly within or around if you want to draw some line of sights. But

nudging at least part of a model within doesn't really gain much of an advantage. Otherwise, you'd see people

advantage. Otherwise, you'd see people doing this literally all the time. This

is the only scenario in which the towering rule has a big effect. now. And

the advantage of big tall knights and monoliths and things is that if you tow into a piece of ruins area terrain with them, then they can draw line of sight at the other side. And it can mean that they can get some more advantageous lines of sight due to their heights. If

the knight's completely outside of the ruins, though, the towering rule doesn't give you any advantage, and you still wouldn't be able to see the units over it. Finally, just to add in one more

it. Finally, just to add in one more slightly unusual edge case to this.

Certain models overhang their bases either by a greater or lesser extent.

And in their rules commentary, Games Workshop said that these are basically ignored for drawing lines of sight over and through ruins. It means that if you have this tyrannid screamer killer car effects here and he's just proddding his claws, so they're just within the ruin,

it means that he's still going to be obscured behind it and the space range the other side of the ruin wouldn't be able to shoot him. And that is also apply for towering knights as well.

Overhanging bits not able just to prong into the ruin to see over. That rule can make those kind of units just that little bit easier to hide behind ruins.

If they have got big overhangs on the models, provided the base is behind the ruin, then they can't be shot from the other side of it. And bear in mind, though, that doesn't apply to lines of sight around ruins, which is still done

in the normal way, any part of model to any part of the model. So, if his claw was prawing around the corner as opposed to into the base of the ruin, then that space ruin on the right, will be able to get a line of sight into him. I feel

like it's not too hard to see why ruins create some confusion. it often can be a really big deal as to whether or not you've got parts pronging into the ruin or entirely behind it. Another area that always gets brought up with misplays

rules is consolidation. This one

[clears throat] basically being the little optional follow-up movement that happens after you've piled in and then made all your attacks and the opponent removed any models that have been the cause of that. Often the main motivations might be to ensure that the

opponent's unit that you're fighting remains engaged and won't be able to just back away and act freely next turn to move up to tag a different unit and annoy them or potentially to move a unit onto an objective. One of the more

common misplays of consolidation is just not bothering to do it in the first place. Given that it's a bit of a

place. Given that it's a bit of a technical fiddly movement style thing, and most newer players might find the damage dealing actual killing part of the close combat to be the only important bit and not really be quite at

the level where consolidation is obvious and what it achieves. Otherwise, even if you do remember to consolidate in the first place, there are some quite big restrictions on what you can do with it.

First up, you can only do it at all if you can either end with an engagement range of an enemy unit. And if that's not possible, then you can choose to end in major an objective marker. Though, if

the enemy unit is an option, then that's got to be the one that you go for, even if the objective marker might be the decision that you'd want to go for. If

neither of those are possible, though, your unit just stays stock still and doesn't consolidate after fighting. The

move itself is relatively straightforward. You do it model by

straightforward. You do it model by model, and it's done very similar to a pilot move. You get 3 in of movement for

pilot move. You get 3 in of movement for each model. You move them in turn and

each model. You move them in turn and they must move closer to the nearest enemy model to them and into full base contact with an enemy model if that's possible. It means that if they're

possible. It means that if they're already in full base contact, then they can't move at all as they're already as close as they can possibly be. It can

create some unusual situations where due to needing to go towards the closest model, you might not actually be able to get into an engagement range with the unit. Weirdly enough, you might be

unit. Weirdly enough, you might be screened out by your own models.

Otherwise, only if getting into engagement range isn't an option, you can go towards the objective marker.

Another common question or misunderstanding for this one is whether or not you're able to consolidate once you're within scoring range of an objective marker. And the answer to that

objective marker. And the answer to that is yes, you generally can. Though again,

each model needs to be moved actually towards the center of the central objective marker itself, though not necessarily directly towards it. So you

could just end very fractionally closer and sort of use your move to cycle around that objective marker, which might get them into a bit of a safer position behind a ruin or into cover or something. Or that's quite a lot to take

something. Or that's quite a lot to take in. there. For example, if you had this

in. there. For example, if you had this space marine squad that charged the termans, killed a bunch of them, and then was about to consolidate, the space marine at B might have the option of tagging the hive guard, provided he's able to remain in unit coherency with

the rest of his squad while he does so.

Though, even if he is within 3in range to get onto that objective marker, he wouldn't have the choice to do so as he has to move to base the Hiveguard as that takes precedence. The other three space marines not in engagement range

have the last termant as the model they must consolidate towards. They can opt not to make a movement to maintain unit coherency with B perhaps. Though if they move, if they can get into base contact

with that termant, then they must do.

Finally, for this one, let's talk about some out of sequence shooting rules like big guns never tire and firing deck.

Again, some of the rules that feel a bit more obtuse and have a few things lurking in the designer commentary to clarify them. I think it's not really

clarify them. I think it's not really very many people who read through the big guns never tire rule once and be able to perfectly understand what Games Workshop meant for it. Basically, the

upshot of it is that in the shooting phase, vehicles or monsters with an engagement range of an enemy unit can fire out of that melee into other targets or into that unit itself. Those

shots are resolved at minus one to hit and you can't fire blast weapons specifically into the same unit that you're actually in melee combat with.

Other shooting restrictions apply as well. So, say if those orcs were also in

well. So, say if those orcs were also in melee with some space royal infantry as well, you wouldn't be able to target them. On the flip side, if it was the

them. On the flip side, if it was the orc player shooting phase, you'd be able to fire at that repulsor with other units outside, though they'd be minus one to hit it. I have seen people get confused about various bits of that

process. Maybe the single thing that

process. Maybe the single thing that catches the most people out though is the interaction with overwatch and other out ofphase shooting rules. And

basically, big guns never tire is very specifically only allowed in the shooting phases and not outside of that.

So, certain rules that allow you to shoot as if it were your shooting phase still means that big guns never tire won't apply. Games Workshop specifically

won't apply. Games Workshop specifically calls out overwatch as a stratum that you're not able to use with big guns never tire rules. So it could be quite unhelpful if say you have a guard hellhand or other big scary gun tank

that's locked in melee. You can't fire overwatch with things that are moving past nearby and it can apply to other rules. For example, the lean rust tank

rules. For example, the lean rust tank commander shoots in death special rule.

If your tank is stay in the shooting phase, then usually it's no problem. But

if you're staying in melee with something within engagement range, then it is a big problem and you wouldn't be able to use that rule. I feel like the Overwatch rule doesn't necessarily help this as well, saying that you can fire overwatch at the end of a charge move.

In reality, that's very rarely going to happen. I believe that you can declare

happen. I believe that you can declare it with another unit that's shooting against something like an enemy monster or vehicle that charged in with something else, but besides that, us are pretty scarce. Lastly, and kind of

pretty scarce. Lastly, and kind of related to that, are the transport rules, turning off abilities, and firing decks. This one feels like another

decks. This one feels like another common way that could trip people up. in

particular units within transport sort of being counted as a super not on the board and not active kind of state even more so than being held in reserve.

Basically, if your characters have any special rules and they're inside a transport vehicle, those special rules can't take effect, including abilities that come from enhancements as well, unless the rule in question very specifically states that you can still

use it while embarked. For example, a tower wouldn't be able to farm its command point ability in the command phase if it was embarked inside a devilfish. Though if the model was on

devilfish. Though if the model was on the board, you would be able to do so.

And even if it was in reserves, you'd be able to do so as well, as the rule has no stipulation as to being on the battlefield. It just flat out doesn't

battlefield. It just flat out doesn't function if you're within transports, though. Another way in which this one

though. Another way in which this one can specifically trip people up is the firing deck special rule, which is kind of representing the unit inside firing out of the transport with a bunch of small arms and things. But the way Games

Workshop have made this one happen is to count the guns as actually being mounted on the transport model itself for the phase as opposed to reflecting the abilities and talents of the squad firing out. And it means that you won't

firing out. And it means that you won't be able to use any special rules or abilities of the unit or the leader character in question while they're shooting. Say for example, if the unit

shooting. Say for example, if the unit that was embarked had a character with rolls, you wouldn't get those rolls on the shooting attacks. But if the transport was allowed to reroll hits or something, then those shots will be able to make use of that. Otherwise, Games

Workshop fiddled with the oneshot weapons to say that you just flat out can't fire them with firing deck. And it

also doesn't interact with overwatch as well. Again, it only functions during

well. Again, it only functions during the shooting phase, so you won't get all those extra shots in the opposing turn when your unit's overwatching. Again, it

is one that feels like it's maybe a slightly over complex solution and does feel a touch unintuitive, even if it does mean that you're not having to technically use profiles for models not on the table, I suppose. In any case,

let me know your thoughts as to a few common rules mistakes in Warhammer 40k.

What things do you see players regularly getting wrong on the other side of the tabletop? Let me know your thoughts down

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