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/Separate_Football914 2d ago

Issue is… I am the TO so…. Speaking with the mirror will not help

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u/The_Black_Goodbye 2d ago

Well the good news is that the GW rules team which has assisted the larger TOs have told them that damage reduction should work with Dev Wounds despite the actual RAW and as the TO you can do what they did and RAI rule that it does for your events.

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u/Separate_Football914 2d ago

Kinda stupid that the GW rules it’s that way and that there isn’t an official FAQ on that.

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u/The_Black_Goodbye 2d ago

Agreed; they’ve told TOs this from the start of edition yet 3 patches later nothing yet - at least the new codexes are working around it but hopefully we don’t have to wait for all codexes in order it’s resolved.

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u/Benzerkr 2d ago edited 2d ago

At LVO recently the TO/staff ruled that Dev wounds are NOT reduced in damage. It helped my Army out, but I figured that was always an oversite so it was a surprise to me.

Edit: someone below says LVO rules otherwise? But I was corrected by my opponent (playing Death Guard while playing on stream with a TO standing next to him? I don't have a lot of dev wounds, but when it came up I was explained why it does NOT reduce damage.