Rules Clarification : Ghost Shot      (Edit)

• Ignore LOS (Edit)
  • Since you ignore LOS, you can target models in your back arc. (Infernal Ruling)

• Although you ignore concealment/cover, you don't ignore any other bonuses models get "from" them (such as Prowl).
• You don't ignore Stealth's "auto-miss" rule.

Rules Clarification : Deathbound      (Edit)

• Your opponent can negate Deathbound for the entire game by using a Remove From Play ability vs the Leader model.
  • Because Deathbound makes you place models near the Leader, not the unit commander; (Infernal Ruling); and because Field Promotion only occurs when a Leader is destroyed, but not when they're Removed From Play.
  • It results in you trying to place models near a model that is not on the table.
• Deathbound + Death Toll
  • This is a bit of a weird one, and easiest to explain with an example. Say you start with a unit of 10 models, then add 2 via Death Toll.
  • 1 model is destroyed, leaving you at 11. You don't have "fewer models in the unit than there were at the start of the game" so Deathbound doesn't trigger.
  • Another model is destroyed, leaving you at 10. Deathbound still doesn't trigger.
  • Another model is destroyed, leaving you at 9. Now Deathbound triggers.
  • Here's the weird part: once it is triggered it no longer cares what the starting unit size was, only how many destroyed models are available to be returned to play. So if you roll a 3 then you get all 3 destroyed models back, and you're back to 12 total.

Rules Clarification : Gang and/or Gang Fighter and/or Tag Team and/or Team Effort     (Edit)

• You can gain the Gang bonus on free strikes, but generally only the first "Ganger" will get it.

For example, if a target is engaged by two models with Gang, when it leaves the melee range of the first Ganger it suffers a free strike with the Gang bonus. Then it leaves the melee range of the second and suffers a normal free strike.

Rules Clarification : Point-Blank      (Edit)

• Number of attacks
  • Point-Blank gives you an extra initial melee attack (even though, RAW, it doesn't meet the criteria). (Infernal Ruling)
  • If you can make additional melee attacks, these can be Point-Blank attacks regardless of the weapon's ROF. (Locked Thread)
  • If you have the option of choosing between ranged or melee attacks (for instance you combined Point-Blank with Gunfighter), then you need to declare whether you're making melee or ranged attacks this activation, then declare the weapon and the target. (Infernal Ruling)

• AOE
  • Point-Blank AOEs work just fine, because the AOE template isn't tied to the range.
  • You make a melee attack roll then if you hit you centre the AOE template, or you miss and deviate the AOE template (it can only deviate 0.25").
  • If you have a buff to melee damage rolls (such as Flaming Fists) then it will affect the blast damage rolls too.

• Sprays
  • Point-Blank sprays don't really work. The spray template is intrinsically linked to the attack's range, and Point-Blank overwrites the range.
  • You still get one attack tho - you make the melee attack roll, then go straight to the melee damage roll. You never put the spray template down.

• Other
  • Since Point-Blank only works during your activation, you can't use it on free strikes or other out-of-activation melee attacks.

• Gunfighter vs Point Blank (Edit)
  • If a model has both Gunfighter and Point Blank, then you should declare whether you're using it as a ranged attack or melee attack whenever you shoot the gun. Because that can limit what other initial/additional attacks you can make. (Infernal Ruling)
  • These two abilities are subtly different, but it's an important difference.
  • Gunfighter allows you to make ranged attacks while in melee.
  • Point blank allows you to make melee attacks with your ranged weapon.
    • Since you can't make both ranged and melee attacks in the same turn, a Gunfighter model has a choice of either initial melee attack(s) or initial ranged attack(s). (unless it has Virtuoso or something).
    • Whereas a Point Blank model chooses to make initial melee attacks, and then gets to make attacks with both weapons.
  • Furthermore, the types of bonuses, penalties, and special effects you (or your opponent) can trigger will change dramatically:
    • Any buffs/triggers on ranged attacks (such as Evasive, Shield Guard, Deadeye, etc) will affect Gunfighter attacks, but not Point Blank attacks.
    • Any buffs/triggers on melee attacks (such as Battle Lust, Riposte etc) will affect Point Blank attacks, but not Gunfighter attacks.

Rules Clarification : Combined Ranged Attack      (Edit)

• CRA cannot target models in melee ... unless the target is a huge-based model or the attacker has War-Tempered.
• If you give the attack-leader a buff to their attack (such as Guidance) then that buff applies to the combined attack (even though the other participants don't have the buff). (Locked thread)
• Assault & CRA (Edit)
  • You cannot mix Combined Range Attacks with Assault shots, as CRA works during your combat action and Assault shots occur before it. (Infernal Ruling)

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