Category:Energy Pulse

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Energy Pulse (★ Attack) - This attack does not need a target. Each other model within 6" of this model that is in its front arc is automatically hit unless this model's LOS to it is blocked by terrain. Models hit suffer suffer a POW 12 electrical damage roll. Energy Pulse damage rolls are simultaenous. Edit description


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Rules Clarification : Energy Pulse      (Edit)

  • You cannot choose to roll Energy Pulse (to fish for a critical, or avoid hitting your own high-DEF models). Normally you can do that with auto-hitting attacks, but Energy Pulse is an exception.
The reason for this is ...   [Show/Hide]
there is no attack roll for Energy Pulse. It says "each model is automatically hit"
Compare to Sustained Attack: "the attack automatically hits"
or Guided: "Attacks made with this weapon automatically hit".
Those other abilities imply an attack roll with a weapon. Energy Pulse does not.
  • Energy Pulse does not target, so:
    • Stealth doesn't stop it. Stealth's auto-miss only kicks in when someone targets the stealth model from more than 5" away. (Infernal Ruling)
    • Abilities that "prevent a model being targeted by ranged attacks" (such as Submerge or Passage) don't stop it.
  • Auto-hits are considered direct hits (refer Attack Roll in the core rulebook), so:
  • For the purposes of Thunderhead using Reload plus Sustained Attack after a Pulse:
    • All models hit by an Energy Pulse are considered to be the "last model hit by that weapon". So for your first bought attack, you can auto-hit any of them.
    Once you shoot a model with a bought attack, though, that model becomes the new "last one". So if you buy a second attack, there is only one model you can auto-hit.
    • Although the Pulse doesn't target and it can hit Stealth models, your bought attacks do target and will auto-miss Stealth models (despite having Sustained Attack). Refer to the "auto-miss vs auto-hit" rule in the core rules.

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