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Blast

Postby thesignaller » Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:20 pm

Can someone tell me the difference between Blast and Ordnance weapons?

Is it blast, you choose figures in unit hit and ordnance its what's under the template?

Is there any difference in cover saves?

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Re: Blast

Postby Baragash » Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:35 pm

A weapon being Ordnance isn't about the blast markers, but about additional rules that come into play (eg other weapons fire as snapshots, improved armour penetration), think of the Ordnance rule in the same way as Heavy or Melta or Poison.

Just because a weapon is Ordnance doesn't mean it has a Blast marker (at least historically Hellstrike Missiles were Ordnance but didn't have a Blast marker).

If it (the Ordnance weapon) does have a Blast marker then it resolves like any other Blast weapon unless it has Indirect Fire, in which case Cover and Wound Allocation are resolved in a different way.
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Re: Blast

Postby KInG » Fri Apr 25, 2014 7:18 pm

Baragash wrote:... unless it has Indirect Fire, in which case Cover and Wound Allocation are resolved in a different way.

in which case it becomes a barrage weapon and then you do the thing you were thinking you do for ordnance. You allocate wounds from the centre of the blast and work out cover saves from there too.

So it is possible to have an Ordnance, Barrage weapon.
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