The More 40K You Know - Posion

If you read Raptor1313's article on the might 'Gaunt then hopefully you would have realised just how dangerous Poison can be. What you may not of realised is something that LittleBoyBlues, from The Hogs of War, tries to look at...

Everyone knows that poison wounds on a 4+ or even better if it is a special poisoned weapon of some sort. Something you might not know; poison MUST be re rolled to wound if the strength of the attacker is equal to or higher than the toughness of the defender. Think about that next time your plaguebearers are in hand to hand with some astartes.

- LittleBoyBlues in The More 40k You Know

If you turn to page 42 of your Big Red Rulebook (BRB) you will discover that Plague Bearers are indeed a dangerous threat to your Space Marines. Hell, with Furious Charge the might 'Gaunt can become considered dangerous for Space Marines. However, the bit that LittleBoyBlues missed was that you don't have to re-roll all to wound rolls. Rather you get to re-roll FAILED to wound dice.

I've got a line up of more rules related posts for this week that have been influenced by The Hogs of War.