Area Saves

[Matt H]

Guys,

 

I hope you can help me out, I have a question that is really bugging me!

 

If a model (such as the cauldron  of blood) grants an area shield to other models and a unit benefits from this rule, with some of its models in range of the shield and some outside, if that unit gets shot, how do you decide on whether models within that unit get the save?

For example I have a unit of 20 Witch Aelves, 10 within range of the shield and 10 not, I then suffer 10 wounds during the shooting phase. Do I get to choose which models within the unit get wounded first therefore potentially they all get saves? Or do none of them get saves?

[ElectricPaladin]

I believe that if the language is that the benefit is granted to units in range, the unit is in range if any models are in range.

[BaldoBeardo]

Wounds don't hit the model, they go to the damage pool. You choose which models the wounds are allocated to - so you get to pick. Save, or no save?

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[Nico]

They didn't think about it when they wrote this rule - especially as some area wards are unit within and some are model within. Just play all of them as unit within - that was the solution reached 8 months ago when this was discussed.

[Matt H]

Thanks for the answers. That's kind of what I guessed, but seems a bit harsh to the shooter!

[WAAAGHdogg15]

That's one way of seeing it. Another way of seeing it would be that not getting the save for the whole unit would be harsh on the player who has deliberately built a list with that combo in it and positioned models to benefit from it.