8th Ed. cowboys with infantry - do we distribute against shooting?

[Pinktaco]

Say I'm up against a wood elf player and he brings the dreaded waywatcher. My CoRs will likely be gone first turn, so I put my cowboy in a unit if templeguards and they shoot at the templeguards. Can they actually hit my cowboy or are the shots just wasted against the RnF models?

 

[borkbork]

first....don't overestimate waywatchers. Don't get me wrong, they are a fantastic unit....but they will miss some shots and only wound your COC on 5+. And against the cowboyz they will only wound on 6+ and then you probably have a ward as well. It may be well worth to let them shoot at a cowboy to keep something else safe.

But coming back to your question....yeah, you distribute the shooting. So you decide which model is hit. You must assign a hit to each model in the unit before you can assign a second hit to a model. So, in theory they can hit your Cowboyz, but only if they hit each and every templeguard model first.

hope this is clear.

 

[Pinktaco]

Well that is something I have to test in real life. Math says that roughly 2 CoRs will die which is "fine" if they're there to bring the cowboy anyway. I tihnk it's because my friend have brought 20 waywatchers which results in much more pain, but I might be wrong.

Anyway question was answered, so thank you. =)

 

[borkbork]

Twenty....yeah, that can be painfull indeed. I so far have not been up against more than 12 (2x 6), which i found less of a threat then expected.