
Throughout the editions of 40k there have been many different ways to address units with mixed toughness. Photo Credit: Musterkrux What toughness to use in a Mixed Unit Not ideal as a solution but it does reign in Devastating Wounds from almost all defensive abilities a unit might have.

■ When a rule modifies an attack’s Damage characteristic, if that attacks scores a Critical Wound, the Damage characteristic is modified before the damage is applied as mortal wounds. Some rules modify the Damage characteristic of an attack that has the ability. MODIFYING A DAMAGE CHARACTERISTIC AND DEVASTATING WOUNDS However the commentary explains that despite this, in this situation players should still modify the damage characteristic before the conversion to mortal wounds. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, a Critical Wound inflicts a number of mortal wounds on the target equal to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and the attack sequence ends.Īs that attack has ended, it would never be allocated to a model and therefore not trigger the vast majority of damage reduction abilities, such as this one from Index Space Marines.ĭuty Eternal: Each time an attack is allocated to this model, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack. Weapons with in their profile are known as Devastating Wounds weapons.
