Stormcast healing with Castellant

[Grailstorm]

I frequently see this played wrong, and just want to double check I’m not making a mistake with my interpretation.

Here’s the example.

Stardrake gets buffed by the Castellant Lantern. So a dice roll of 6 heals a wound allocated to it.

The way I always see it played is that wounds are healed in real time. For example, I was just watching a stream where a Stardrake was damaged by the unit champion, who did one wound. Then the attacks from the rest of the unit did nothing, but the Stormcast player healed a wound.

My understanding is this can’t happen.

Wounds are allocated after all attacks from the unit have been resolved. So a Stormcast player can only heal if a second unit is fighting it, or it was damaged in a previous phase/turn. Right?

[schwabbele]

Correct, wounds are allocated at the end of the combat. So you can NOT heal them in your first encounter if you start with full wounds.

[Turragor]

Correct and on top of what @schwabbele says, it means that if something does 16 wounds to a drake (after saves etc) then it doesn't matter how many healing 6s are also made. Drake's dead yo.