Some questions on Warhammer 40k

[Darkfreak]

I just had a few quick questions about 40k.
1.What is the target priority test? I mean nowhere in the rulebook have I found it but it's in my newest codex.
2.Can units break coherency to form smaller units? or can they move to other groups?
3.Are you only allowed to target a single figure during your shooting phase or is it 1 figure per attack.
4.Can vehicles ram other vehicles?
5.Can vehicles use a shooting phase to role a D6 to go farther even if they went crusing speed?
6.And finnaly do you measure a vehicles movement front to front or front to back?
Thanks for reading and please answer. It would be a big help.

 

[cheftacular]

1. Target priority is for infantry units who want to shoot a target that ISN'T the closest. They need to pass a ld check or they shoot the closest guys.

2. Nope, only Colonel Schaffer's Last Chancers do that.

3. Shooting phase = you pick a unit, they shoot a unit. You can never pick a single figure.

4. Nope, that's like 3rd edition or something old like that.

5. No, only infantry do that.

6. Either, but you measure from the front to the front, or from the back to the back. If you know what I mean.

No problem, I love 40k. What army do you play?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

^ ^ ^ What he said.

Units that break coherency always have to take a leadership test. You can't stay with broken coherency.

1 figure or squad per figure or squad. You can't have people from the same squad shooting at several targets.

No

If they have a rule that allows them to do that. I think skimmers can do, I'm only aware of Eldar fleet of foot.

Front to front. Front to back would allow a few extra inches movement.

Hope that helped.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

I can answer a few of these.
2. Certain units in certain codices can.
3. You target the unit as a whole.
4. As far as I am aware no, they can tank shock troops though.
6. Front to front I believe.

Edit: Beaten to it.

 

[cheftacular]

If they have a rule tat allows them to do that. I think skimmers can do, I'm only aware of Eldar fleet of foot.

Man I wish my skimmers could go super fast! The only difference with their floating rule is they can see over trees, which really that good because it means everyone on the board also sees them. Frowny face !

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

If they have a rule tat allows them to do that. I think skimmers can do, I'm only aware of Eldar fleet of foot.

Man I wish my skimmers could go super fast! The only difference with their floating rule is they can see over trees, which really that good because it means everyone on the board also sees them. Frowny face !

I don't actually own any proper Eldar skimmers.

I have a Wave Serpent but I use it mainly to fly in and drop Harlequins in the thick of it.

 

[Evil the White]

1. already said
2. Certain units can, like a 10 man marine squad breaking into two 5 man combat squads.
3. Unit as a whole, hits spread among models.
4.
[HEADING=1]THEY CAN RAM.[/HEADING]
They have been able to do this since 5th ed. Unless they've released another edition in the year I haven't been playing. It takes a leadership check to do it, and there's a table in the book for armour strength. ALthough I think it's something like AV14 counts as a str8 hit, with a +1 bonu if you get it from 12 inches or something, and +1 to that if they are a tank.

5. No, only infantry can use the run rule.
6. Front to front.

 

[Baradiel]

I just had a few quick questions about 40k.
1.What is the target priority test? I mean nowhere in the rulebook have I found it but it's in my newest codex.
2.Can units break coherency to form smaller units? or can they move to other groups?
3.Are you only allowed to target a single figure during your shooting phase or is it 1 figure per attack.
4.Can vehicles ram other vehicles?
5.Can vehicles use a shooting phase to role a D6 to go farther even if they went crusing speed?
6.And finnaly do you measure a vehicles movement front to front or front to back?
Thanks for reading and please answer. It would be a big help.

I havent played it for ages, and even then I didn't understand most of the rules, but I'll try to help.

1. Basically, when a unit tries to shoot at another unit, but theres another, closer unit, the unit thats firing must roll to see if they shoot at the intended target.

2. No, but independent characters (captains, warbosses etc) can deploy with a unit and can be "independent" and on his own or join another unit.

3. A unit can only fire at one other unit, but if part of the target unit is in cover, I think only the models visible can be killed.

4. Yes they can, depending on the vehicles involved, and the vehicle damage table is used.

5. I dont think so.

6. You measure the distance from the same place on the vehicle. Say you wanted to move 12", you'd measure from the front of the vehicle 12", and the front of the vehicle should be 12" from where it was, if that makes sense.

Honestly, I'm no expert. There are multiple sites which would probably be better to find this stuff out on.

 

[cheftacular]

I don't actually own any proper Eldar skimmers.

I have a Wave Serpent but I use it mainly to fly in and drop Harlequins in the thick of it.

Oh dang, one of the guys at my gaming club does that and I always end up wasting all my bullets on the Harlequins, because if they get in combat it's game over for me.

[HEADING=1]THEY CAN RAM.[/HEADING]
They have been able to do this since 5th ed. Unless they've released another edition in the year I haven't been playing. It takes a leadership check to do it, and there's a table in the book for armour strength. ALthough I think it's something like AV14 counts as a str8 hit, with a +1 bonu if you get it from 12 inches or something, and +1 to that if they are a tank.

It changed in the year you haven't been playing. GW removed the tank ramming because a Land Raider with extra armour would just decimate across the board.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I don't actually own any proper Eldar skimmers.

I have a Wave Serpent but I use it mainly to fly in and drop Harlequins in the thick of it.

Oh dang, one of the guys at my gaming club does that and I always end up wasting all my bullets on the Harlequins, because if they get in combat it's game over for me.

Harlequins are freaking brutal.

They used to be so bad at range. But with the Shadowseer cutting everyone off past 24" at their luckiest and 4" at their worst and the Death Jester firing high powered shriekers at anything that looks at him funny they can now just sit back and wait for the enemies to be in fleeting distance.

 

[Evil the White]

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Seriously? Since when would it decimate a board? Against an all tank army maybe, where you could hit all the tanks in a row, but when does that happen? If my 6 missile launchers couldn't take out a tank, how would a land raider do much better? Also, you can't shoot while ramming. So that's a good 250pts for a close range missile launcher that dies easily to melta bombs. And the heavy tanks it's charging towards.

Oh well, another thing I liked about the game ruined.

 

[cheftacular]

Harlequins are freaking brutal.

They used to be so bad at range. But with the Shadowseer cutting everyone off past 24" at their luckiest and 4" at their worst and the Death Jester firing high powered shriekers at anything that looks at him funny they can now just sit back and wait for the enemies to be in fleeting distance.

I dunno if sitting back and shooting my Tau would be the best of plans, I'd recommend trying to de-head them all. Although that wouldn't be quite as bad as a squad of Khorne berzerkers trying to outshoot my fire warriors, from the open, while I'm in a bunker.

Seriously? Since when would it decimate a board?

Well the fact that it can just run into other tanks while shooting its massive weapons at the infantry is a bit of a dealbreaker.

 

[Darkfreak]

I play Tau. Thanks by the way (and to everyone else who commented)! That target priority test comes up a lot for the Tau! About the breaking of coherency thing: The WHOLE squad from the start stays together unless they pass a Ld and then they can break until they fail the test on their next turn and have to start moving back, is that right? When a unit targets anouther unit can the individual figures of a unit target individual figures of the unit being shot at? the other stuff makes sense now. But I'm getting mixed responses on the vehicles ramming vehicles thing: 5th edition rules right?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I dunno if sitting back and shooting my Tau would be the best of plans, I'd recommend trying to de-head them all. Although that wouldn't be quite as bad as a squad of Khorne berzerkers trying to outshoot my fire warriors, from the open, while I'm in a bunker.

I love bunkers... my pathfinders have never had such an amazing kill record.

2+ save, 2+ hit, ignores armour 5+, almost always kills on a 4.

So worth the extra points.

 

[Darkfreak]

Oddly as we speak I'm painting my last fire-warrior figure in the 12 man squad!

 

[cheftacular]

I love bunkers... my pathfinders have never had such an amazing kill record.

2+ save, 2+ hit, ignores armour 5+, almost always kills on a 4.

So worth the extra points.

At the club I regularly play at there's a board that's a city, with one street running down the length of the board. The road has a bridge in it that crosses a river, and on either side of the city side of the bridge there's a bunker. Can you guess which side of the board I always got?

 

[vallorn]

I just had a few quick questions about 40k.
1.What is the target priority test? I mean nowhere in the rulebook have I found it but it's in my newest codex.
2.Can units break coherency to form smaller units? or can they move to other groups?
3.Are you only allowed to target a single figure during your shooting phase or is it 1 figure per attack.
4.Can vehicles ram other vehicles?
5.Can vehicles use a shooting phase to role a D6 to go farther even if they went crusing speed?
6.And finnaly do you measure a vehicles movement front to front or front to back?
Thanks for reading and please answer. It would be a big help.

FEAR NOT! for Tzeentch holds your answers and has gifted them to me!

1.if you wish to target a unit that isnt the closest to you then you must pass a leadership test.

2.NO! only 1 unit could ever do that and it was remeoved with the latest imperial gaurd codex

3.you shoot at units as a whole. your opponent then decides which models to remove.

4.yes. they can in the latest 40k rules.

5.no. only infantry and walkers can duo that under the "run" rule

6.either front to front OR back to back. same with all other models as well

now for my return question.
do you own the 5th edition rulebook? and which Codex is it that you refrence here?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

I love bunkers... my pathfinders have never had such an amazing kill record.

2+ save, 2+ hit, ignores armour 5+, almost always kills on a 4.

So worth the extra points.

At the club I regularly play at there's a board that's a city, with one street running down the length of the board. The road has a bridge in it that crosses a river, and on either side of the city side of the bridge there's a bunker. Can you guess which side of the board I always got?

Ha that's brutal. Almost completely untouchable mowing down waves of enemies.

 

[dekkarax]

1. I'm pretty sure target priority does not exist anymore, don't worry about it.
2. I don't know, I've never seen units that can though.
3. you are allowed to target one unit of models.
4. Yes. The rules are in the 5th ed. rulebook.
5. No. Though some vehicles have upgrades that lets them move in the shooting phase instead of shoot.
6. Front to Front.

 

[Darkfreak]

I just had a few quick questions about 40k.
1.What is the target priority test? I mean nowhere in the rulebook have I found it but it's in my newest codex.
2.Can units break coherency to form smaller units? or can they move to other groups?
3.Are you only allowed to target a single figure during your shooting phase or is it 1 figure per attack.
4.Can vehicles ram other vehicles?
5.Can vehicles use a shooting phase to role a D6 to go farther even if they went crusing speed?
6.And finnaly do you measure a vehicles movement front to front or front to back?
Thanks for reading and please answer. It would be a big help.

FEAR NOT! for Tzeentch holds your answers and has gifted them to me!

1.if you wish to target a unit that isnt the closest to you then you must pass a leadership test.

2.NO! only 1 unit could ever do that and it was remeoved with the latest imperial gaurd codex

3.you shoot at units as a whole. your opponent then decides which models to remove.

4.yes. they can in the latest 40k rules.

5.no. only infantry and walkers can duo that under the "run" rule

6.either front to front OR back to back. same with all other models as well

now for my return question.
do you own the 5th edition rulebook? and which Codex is it that you refrence here?

I do not own one but I have read it (for the most part... heh) Just saving up for one . I am referencing the latest Tau codex. Really the opponent gets to decide? how does that make sense? if you shoot somebody, the guy next to the dude doesn't die.