Helblaster misfire

[Mostream]

Hi.

The empire book says that when you fire the helblaster you roll three artillery dice for the shots, and if you roll a misifre you halve the remaining two barrels...

I played a game where this empire player rolled the artillery dice one after another and then when he got a misfire on the last dice said it didn't affect the amount of shots fired because it wasn't the first dice rolled. I pointed out the wording in the book but he was far from convinced so we rolled a 4+ for it.

Which is the most valid interpretation?

[theunwantedbeing]

You roll all 3 at once now.

Your opponent was wrong/cheating/thinking of the old rules.

[sorberec]

You roll all 3 at once now.

Only if you have 3 artillery dice. Otherwise you roll the same die three times and count the number of shots/misfires and consult the chart after the third roll if you have rolled any misfires

[Blkc57]

All three atillery rolls occur at the same time, so yes whether you throw three dice or roll a single dice three times you only care about the final tally in terms of the number of shots and the number of misfires rolled. The rules are pretty clear for the number of misfires rolled. It's actually so easy and quick to use now I love the Hellbalaster volley gun, compared to the old edition.

[Mostream]

Ok, thanks for the replies! I'm glad i'm not the only one interpreting the rules like that then.

[Asensur]

You roll the 3 artillery dice at once

1 misfire halves the number of shots from the other 2 results

2 misfires makes the hellblaster roll in the Misfire chart of powder machines

3 misfires make the hellblaster shoot 30 shots and explode after that.

[Lord Solar Plexus]

You roll the 3 artillery dice at once

or two at once and one later, or one die three times, doesn't matter. Don't go back behind what has already been stated.

[jtrowell]

Your opponent was probably mixing with the old rules, where one misfire result worked like that (you used to roll each barrel in sequence, with a misfire on one affecting thos still not fired), the new version is simplier to use (and ironically is now the most stable gunpowder warmachine, as the chance to roll on the misfire table without an engineer is lower than with a single artillery die (you need 2+ misfire on 3 dice instead of 1 on 1 die))

[SanDiegoSurrealist]

Thanks for the post, will ahve to pass this on to the Empire players at my Local who are rolling them 1 at a time.

[Private_SeeD]

I see no problem rolling 1 artillery dice at a time since I for one only own 1 artillery dice, as long as I keep track of my previous roles none of my opponents have had any issue with me doing this


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