If a bastion has no models inside, but models on the battlements. Is the bastion unoccupied and therefore cannot be shot at or assaulted?

I've been away from 40k for a while, and I was reviewing the new faqs. Upon seeing the magenta entry on the first page, I had trouble believing I was reading what I was reading. Does that faq mean that I can now take an Invulnerable save as well as any other saves I may be able to take?

Played a game this week with Chaos Marines and Daemon allies vs Chaos Marines.

In the rulebook it says Beam psychic powers hit the closest model under the line, then the next and so on. Not the unit. Does this mean Beams can snipe heavy weapons like Jaws of the World Wolf?

We played it that way and my Lord of Change sniped his Icon of Excess on his 10-man Noise Marines with Bolt of Tzeentch and my Aspiring Sorceror sniped both blastmasters with Doombolt. Seemed kinda dickish.

Did we play it right?

We ran in to a situation today that we, as beginners, had never come upon. An IG army had a unit of 11 with Yarrick attached get whittled down to just 2 last turn in the shooting phase, Yarrick and a lone IG model. Next turn those two moved, shot and assaulted a unit of 5 boys and a Nob. The challenge was issued and accepted and the Nob vaporized. Now comes the part that I wonder if we did any where near correct. The boys made and end of combat pile in around Yarrick ....yes? Then the Ork player on his turn charged Yarrick with a separate unit of 2 Warbosses and 2 Nobs (even a legal unit?) My question is since there was no way to actually make base contact with Yarrick can that charge even be declared and or attempted? I was spectating and looking stuff up for them but I didn't know where to start for this. Thanks for any replies and please quote page numbers in the rule book for clarity.

I've tried to piece together an answer to this question from other threads about drop pod armies and reserves, but I encountered a pretty specific situation and was hoping for some clarification:

My friend had a Blood Angels army with 5 drop pods and their squads, a Stormraven, and Mephiston.

2 of the drop pods had Independent Characters in them along with the Sternguard/ Tactical Squads, but if I've read the rules correctly none of these count toward the numbers for Preparing Reserves no matter who is in them. All of them started in reserve obviously, as they must. This leaves the Stormraven which also must start in reserve, and Mephiston.

My question is can he embark Mephiston in the Stormraven and keep everything in reserve, or does he have to deploy Mephiston on the table at the start of turn 1 because he is the only model counting toward reserve numbers? The Preparing Reserves section in the BRB states that you may keep up to half of your army in reserve, rounding up. The rounding up question was the origin of our argument... If you only have one model can you choose to have it start in reserves (by embarking it, specifically) because? Also, if there is anything wrong with my rules clarification/ meanings along the way please let me know.

Thanks for any help!

Can't find the rules for EMP grenades against vehicles. The old codex said they were like Haywire, so am I correct in assuming that's what they are. ie, roll a d6, on 4 or 5 it's a glancing hit, on a 6 it's a penetrating hit?

Would a BloodAngel Character in Terminator Armor be allowed to join a DeathWing unit that was DWAssaulting? And would he then gain the Vengeance Strike as well?

Hello all,

I was wondering if the Neuroweb System Jammer, works on Tzeentch demons when they use their witchfire powers? I think that it does but before I slip it into my unit, I thought I would check?

I was playing a friend's Chaos army earlier, and a question arose: If you reroll a failed psychic test that caused a perils wound, would you take the wound first and then reroll, or reroll the failed test, ignoring the wound suffered?

Neither of us knew how to play it, so we just allowed the wound to be ignored.

Hatred allows you to re-roll your attacks in the first round of combat.

If you are already in a combat with unit A and get charged by unit B, does this count as the first round of combat against unit B allowing you to re-roll missed attacks against but not unit A?

thanks

So, I have a unit of dark eldar trueborn with four shredders. When shooting at a unit do I place the blast templates individually then work out the damage before placing the next blast template or can i do all four blast templates then roll the wounds for all four? The latter method definately has an advantage over the former seeing as though the enemy unit might be losing guys each time and therefor possibly making you hit less models.
(sorry, i am out of my state and was teaching someone to play without my rulebook and i dont quite remember how this works as I have never ran into this issue before.)

I've always used the defence line as 1 whole piece as I was under the impression you couldn't split them up. Then this evening a player used 1 for the first time and setup them up as pairs.
I enquired and he showed me the rules for the defence line that states that each piece must be placed next to at least 1 section.

So was he incorrect or have I been limiting my use of my defence line cause I've never seen anyone set them up separately, even at Throne of Skulls?

i was playing a game yesterday and a good friend of mine assaulted my fire warriors with two squads. it was a group of plaguebearers 10 strong, and then a single plague drone. he claimed that since he declared the assault with the plague bearers first, i had to overwatch on them instead of shooting up the one plague drone. i challenged him on the rule and we looked and looked and couldn't find an answer. is this FAQd somewhere, or is it a case of a house rule or something?

thanks

I could swear this has been posted before but I couldn't find it with the search. sorry.

So now in 6th the BRB uses a single unit type (Infantry) for all infantry whether they're Jet or Jump or on foot.

Does this mean that JotWW can hit and kill Crisis suits? (pretty juicy target with Init2 and 2 wounds)

I'm pretty sure back in 5th it didn't work since JotWW specifies which types of units it affects. and back in 5th Jump Infantry was a separate unit type.

I borrowed the Tau codex this morning and noticed something that I just couldn't believe.

The Tau non-crisis HQ (I think its called Fireblade in english) has the Split Fire special rule, that means he has to pass a Leadership test for it to work. But every tau sergeant can buy a gizmo that allows him to split fire automatically without Leadership test.

The question would be: What the hell...?