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8th Ed. Dwellers below help

Lingbei
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If there is a character in the unit do you roll for him separately to the unit? or just add him to the unit number and the unit takes the casualty?
 
Thats what I presumed would happen, but wanted to know for next time I used it :) ended up killing one of his heroes with it
 
This is one of the reason why people are complaining so much about magic in 8th edition. There are a couple of spells (dwellers, purple sun) that allows neither LOS nor wardsaves and that kills instantly. Personally I play light so that I wont be tempted to throw 6 dice a round on his caster or general unit just to wipe them out early game.
 
Indeed, I was able to cast it twice in one game. took out nearly the entire unit and nearly two of his heroes.
 
Purple sun does allow LoS as it is a template, it's Dwellers and the Dreaded 13th that don't.
 
Except that Purple Sun specifies no save. LOS is a save, therefore not allowed.
 
I think its been FAQ'd to allow a LOS roll.

At my home club we house ruled in a LoS for dwellers as well for just that reason.
 
The main rulebook FAQ includes magical vortex spells now as one of the things LOS can be taken against. This:

Q: Does the ‘Look Out Sir’ special rule apply against all spells that
use templates? (p93)
A: Yes

And this:

Page 93 – Champions and Shooting
Change the third paragraph to “The only exceptions to this are
attacks that use a template (such as cannons, stone throwers,
breath weapons, magical vortexes and so on).”

Dwellers, on the other hand, doesn't use a template, and I can't find anything that indicates LOS can be used. Which is very unfortunate, if you ask me. Way to go if your house rules allow it.
 
Questioner said:
Except that Purple Sun specifies no save. LOS is a save, therefore not allowed.
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LOS isn't a save its a USR with a function simmilar to save, saves however are used for wounds while LOS is used for hits.
 
Sorry i'm not good with abbrevations and i'm quite new to fantasy what is USR?
 
Universall special rule.
Altho look out sir isn't even that it is a "roll" and as per RAW not a save (which as i said is used for wounds).
Bsides with the FAQ as proof you can just tell your opponent your character gets LOS cuz GW said so.
 
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