Category:Fire Damage

Unlike most games, having a weapon with a Damage Type in Warmachine doesn't do anything extra for your damage output (with the exception of Corrosion continuous effect, Fire continuous effect, and Damage Type: Magical).

Generally speaking, if you have a Damage Type, then 75% of the time it'll be irrelevant, 20% of the time it is a disadvantage because your opponent is immune to it, and 5% of the time it does something worthwhile because you stacked it with a different special rule (such as Fuel for the Flames or Peel Back the Layers).

• Damage Type: Fire (Page 18) - This weapon causes fire damage.
• Immunity: Fire (Page 16) - This model does not suffer fire damage or the fire continuous effect.

• Continuous Fire (Page 18) - A model hit by this weapon suffers the fire continuous effect.

Critical Continuous Fire (Page 18) - On a critical hit, the model hit by this weapon suffers the fire continuous effect.

Fire Continuous Effect (Page 61) - During your Maintenance Phase roll a d6 for each continuous effect; if the result is a 1 or 2, the continuous effect expires without further effect. On a result of 3 to 6, it remains in play and the affected model suffers a POW 12 fire damage roll.

See also the basic training article: 101 - Damage Type

Rules Clarification : Fire      (Edit) If you deploy in fire hazard terrain (Burning Earth), then you get set on fire before the game starts. Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard. Moving into "Shallow water" standard terrain does not cause continuous fire to expire. It's magic fire. You can always use non-standard terrain if you agree with your opponent before the game starts, however. A weapon can inflict continuous fire without itself being a fire damage weapon (for example, the Helios's fists). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity:Fire it just won't apply the continuous effect. In terms of which player's clock is running down during the Maintenance Phase: The active player will roll for expiration of all the continuous effects. Then the inactive player will roll for all the damages of the continuous effects. (Judge Ruling)