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Killing blow

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Does the killing blow special rule kill an entier unit if you roll a 6 to-hit or does it just kill enemys depending on how many 6's you roll to-hit? :question: :question:
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Re: Killing blow

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because i was thinking that if you roll a 6 to-hit then the unit with the killing blow special rule could just go crazy and kill every one in the unit
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Re: Killing blow

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J-Bo wrote:Does the killing blow special rule kill an entier unit if you roll a 6 to-hit or does it just kill enemys depending on how many 6's you roll to-hit? :question: :question:
Each 6 kills one model (in case of charactere on the mount, it kills only character).
Killing entire multi-model unit directly (not by multiple wounds) is impossible by any mean, with only exception being that WoCh spell in case you roll 11-12 for S on 2d6.
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Re: Killing blow

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thank you unicorn, i now need to get LOADS of 'killing blow' units :evil: :evil:
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Re: Killing blow

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Don't rely too much on Killing Blow. It's neat for assassinating Characters, but beyond that it's too unreliable. Eg: If you have 5 Wardancers w/ Bladesinger, for 11 attacks, you have a very low chance of getting more than 2 Killing Blows and a statistically ignorable chance of getting more than 3.
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Re: Killing blow

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fair enough, i was just wondering because i didn't have the first clue how many people it could kill and was curious so i asked everyone
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also note that killing blow works on 6's on rolls-to-wound, not to-hit as you asked in the first post
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