N18 Necromunda Wounds and Injury

[drdrybrush]

Say a model has 2 wounds.

It is shot with a rapid fire weapon that ends up causing 4 points of unsaved damage (for the sake of an example).

The target is reduced to 0 wounds.

My understanding is that at the 0 wound point an injury dice would be rolled and the 2 remaining points of damage would be added on to the injury dice amount for a total of 3 dice in this example.

Is that right or am I way off?
Thanks for the help

 

[Thorgor]

It's about right, yes!

Technically, how exactly it's rolled depends on the specifics. Is it 1 D4 wound, 2 D2 wounds or 4 D1 wounds?
If it's 4 D1 wounds, you will make 3 injury rolls of 1 dice each. If it's 2 D2 wounds you will make 2 injury rolls, one with 1 dice and another with 2 dice. If it's 1 D4 wounds, you will make a single injury roll with 3 dice.
This is relevant if something changes how many dice should be rolled for an injury roll against the target (for instance, if they have the True Grit skill)

 

[drdrybrush]

It's about right, yes!

Technically, how exactly it's rolled depends on the specifics. Is it 1 D4 wound, 2 D2 wounds or 4 D1 wounds?
If it's 4 D1 wounds, you will make 3 injury rolls of 1 dice each. If it's 2 D2 wounds you will make 2 injury rolls, one with 1 dice and another with 2 dice. If it's 1 D4 wounds, you will make a single injury roll with 3 dice.
This is relevant if something changes how many dice should be rolled for an injury roll against the target (for instance, if they have the True Grit skill)

Thanks for the reply 🙂

Let's say is 4 x D1 for talking sake because my brain has melted a tad today , so on a W2 model they'd be reduced to 0 wounds from 2 points of damage from the weapon.

2 injury dice would be rolled (1 for each remaining damage caused) and an additional 1 injury dice due to being reduced to zero wounds.

Is that right or am I still missing the mark?

 

[Thorgor]

Yes, in this instance a total of 3 injury dice will be rolled

 

[drdrybrush]

Awesome 🙂 thanks for the help, very new to necromunda but many years of 40k under the belt so just wrapping my head round the differences like how if a fighter has zero wounds they're not necessarily automatically dead or out of action.

Any super easy cheat sheet references you can recommend?

 

[Kiro The Avenger]

My group combines all the damage into one roll for a single attack.

I wouldn't say that's necessarily incorrect either, the rules are vague enough that's just as correct as what Thorgor suggested.

 

[Devilmixer]

My group combines all the damage into one roll for a single attack.

I wouldn't say that's necessarily incorrect either, the rules are vague enough that's just as correct as what Thorgor suggested.

so does mine

 

[UncleFester]

Yes, that's the way we do it also.

....

However...

If you have a rules-lawyer around, the rules for rolling Injury dice are... technically speaking... a mess. If you read them carefully, and do exactly what they say, it would actually play out this: (BTW, I'm not recommending doing it this way)

Rules say, when a hit reduces a fighter to 0 Wounds, immediately roll an Injury Die and apply the result. The next step then says if there are more Damage points to be dealt, roll additional Injury Dice.

And so, if the first roll on the Injury Die is OOA (or a Flesh Wound that reduces Toughness to 0), and you apply the result immediately, the fighter is immediately removed from play and any remaining Damage would be irrelevant.

I merely point that out as an example of how the rules often have "foggy wording".

 

[OrcJuice]

If you combine all damage into a single attack then doesn't it become an all or nothing type save for armor?

Sorry if I don't make sense. I'm brand new to this as well and trying to figure it all out.

 

[Kiro The Avenger]

No, you combine the damage after armour saves have been made.

 

[OrcJuice]

No, you combine the damage after armour saves have been made.

Ahhh, gotcha.