40K Damage Rules
The rules on this page contain everything you need to know to use your collection of Citadel minifigures to fight glorious battles in the war-torn galaxy. Warhammer 40,000 gives you command of an army of powerful warriors and war machines as you fight for supremacy in the dark darkness of the distant future. This page contains the most important rules for playing with your Citadel minifigures and is designed to be used with the essential rules that come with your Warhammer 40,000 models. SOME ATTACKS INFLICT DEADLY WOUNDS – these are so powerful that no armor or force field can withstand their wrath. Each fatal wound inflicts 1 point of damage to the target unit, and they are always applied one after the other. This rare rule is part of a select group of 8th century FAQ entries. Location, which have been adopted as “Rare Rules” and “Announced”. It covers a range of common questions about the exact operation of repositioned and replaced units and the rules that affect them. Some expenses were made in the 9th edition, one of the most important being point 9, which prevented units from starting actions in one part of the board and then teleporting to finish that action in another place.
The second common rule mistake is the way multi-damage weapons work. Weapons that deal multiple damages must be rolled individually if they face units containing multiple models with more than one injury. This section contains rules for using a number of terrain features that can turn your game table into a themed interactive battlefield set in the 41st millennium. These rules will help you bring your battlefield to life and introduce a new tactical dimension into your games. Some Warhammer 40,000 units get some sort of extra save after saving their armor or invulnerable save. For example, the Death Guard pictured below gets a disgusting resilient role of over 5 years. One of the Eldar Craftworlds also has a similar feature and the new Sisters of Battle have the same thing, but it`s a 6+. This extra saving is made for every damage point and not for every successful wound roll – like armor and invulnerable saves. In Warhammer 40,000 with the way injuries and damage work, any “excessive” damage to a model is lost.
You can shoot or stab a cave with only 1 wound with a massive attack that deals 20 damages – but you only kill one cave. It`s exactly the opposite in Age of Sigmar. When you nail a unit with a very high damage attack, each point of damage is distributed and resolved. Aside from a few outliers, this means that people can scale down large units with fewer attacks that deal more damage per shot. I have made absolutely terrible rule mistakes in the past. The most obvious was in my first match against the dew. Imagine if an ORC had the ability to roll invulnerability backups. Are they backup reels by shot or by damage? The next step would require me to attribute “injuries.” How many wounds have I created? Is it 4 because 4 shots hit the wound roller and occurred? Or is it 8 because each shot would inflict 2 damages? IGNORE INJURIES VS. RULES THAT PREVENT MODELS FROM IGNORING INJURIES Some models have a rule that states that they must not lose more than a certain number of injuries in the same phase/round/round of combat and that injuries that would be lost after this point will not be lost. If such a model is attacked by a weapon or model with a rule stating that enemy models cannot apply rules to ignore the injuries it loses, this rule takes precedence over the previous rule, and if that attack inflicts damage on that model, it will lose a number of injuries equal to the damage characteristic of that attack. Even if he has already lost the specified number of wounds in this phase / turn / turn of battle. Where it gets interesting is that you still have to make damage rollers for multi-damage weapons for 1-wound models.
Normally, a Lascannon with D6 damage would kill a wounded Model 1 dead; If you ride a 1, model 1 wound is dead and if you ride a 6, model 1 wound is dead. But if the model can ignore the damage, you need to let the damage roll to see if the model successfully ignores all that damage.