Crucible Guard Unit

Rules Clarification : Corrosion      (Edit)

• If you deploy in corrosion hazard terrain (Acid Pool), then you get corroded 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.

• A weapon can inflict continuous corrosion without itself being a corrosion damage weapon (for example, the Acidic Touch animus). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity: Corrosion it just won't apply the continuous effect.

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)

Rules Clarification : Ashen Veil and/or Swarm     (Edit)

• The concealment bonus and the attack roll penalty stack with each other. If a living model targets you with a gun/spell, and they're within 2" of you, they effectively suffer -4 to the attack.
• The attack roll penalty applies to all types of attacks.
• The attack roll penalty applies even if the enemy model is trying to target something completely different.

Rules Clarification : Eruption of Ash      (Edit)

• If Eruption of Ash is on a magical weapon, then the initial attack can hurt an incorporeal model. However, the AOE that is put into play by the weapon is not magical and doesn't harm them.
• Templates that do damage (Edit)   [Show/Hide]

  • Most templates that do damage to models that walk into them are defined as "Hazards" (such as Burning Ground) but there are a few that aren't Hazards (such as Creeping Barrage and Wall of Fire). The differences are:
    • A hazard is a terrain element
    • Damage from a hazard template is never considered to be from the model or weapon/spell that put it into play. So hazards never gain special rules of the weapon/spell (such as a Damage Type or Poison), nor does it gain special rules of the model (such as Hand of Fate).
    • Damage from a non-hazard template is considered to be from the model that put it in play. So non-hazards do get stuff like Hand of Fate. (Infernal Ruling)
    • Damage from a hazard is not from an attack (so won't trigger stuff like Vengeance)
    • Damage from a non-hazard is also not from an attack. Instead it will be a Special Action (Covering Fire), or a "instead of making an attack, place a template" (Creeping Barrage), or etc.

   

  • Damage templates from spells is complicated:
    • (Infernal Ruling)
    • Spells that leave templates that are not hazards (such as Razor Wall) do Damage Type: Magical.
    • Spells that leave templates that are hazards (such as Breath of Corruption) follow the rules for hazards, which are most likely not magical damage but it varies by the hazard.
    • The initial damage when you place the template, if any, is Damage Type: Magical.
    • For example, Breath of Corruption's initial POW 12 corrosion damage roll is Damage Type: Magical in addition to Damage Type: Corrosion. But the hazard that is put into play from Breath of Corruption is not Damage Type: Magical, just Damage Type: Corrosion.

   

  • By default, when you put a template into play it doesn't do damage to models they overlap. The exceptions are templates that are created by an AOE weapon, and templates that explicitly say they do damage when they're placed.
  • A model which is "placed" also counts as "entering" an area, so the template will damage any one who teleports/spawns into it, too.
  • If two templates are overlapping, a model that enters them will take two points of damage.