r/WarhammerCompetitive • u/Separate_Football914 • 2d ago

40k Discussion Dev wound and damage reduction

We had a question regarding it and the answer seems… weird.

Per the dev wound rule, it by pass the attack allocation phase and becomes mortals wound. Most if not all of the damage modification ability (c’tan, Avatar of Khaine, Rogal Dorn) needs an attack to be allocated to the model….

So, is dev wound effectively ignore these rules?

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u/jacanced 2d ago

If it helps any, look at the 11th edition codices. All 3 of them so far have changed the wording of damage reduction, removing the "allocation" wording, so reduction always works against dev wounds on them.

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u/SilverBlue4521 2d ago

Not really? The gravis armour captain still uses "allocated" (thought i assume its because he's a character)

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u/Kildy 1d ago

Same with the shield captain. They do it because they are a single model with the reduction in a squad.

The idea that we fixed this with new wording seems wrong.  It just seems like an accident.