Category:Energy Pulse

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.

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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:
  • Energy Pulse can be Shield Guarded etc. (Locked thread)
  • Energy Pulse stacks with the Explosivo spell.

• 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.