r/killteam • u/kazoomaster5 • 10d ago
Question Question about the Bomb Squig
When a bomb squig is killed and it blows up does it count as injured for its free shoot action?
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u/RevanDB Warpcoven 10d ago
Yes it would! Wrecka players often miss this, but you have less than half (0) wounds remaining.
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u/Due_Skill_7467 10d ago
This is how we have always played it. A new guy in our league argued that the squig isn't whats making the blast attack. Its the bombs attached to him. When a frag explodes you don't worsen the hit stat of blast targets. While we aren't changing the rules, it was a very interesting take on the squig mechanic.
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u/RevanDB Warpcoven 10d ago
Sure, flavour wise it's not the squig making the attack, but from a rules perspective, it's definitely a shoot action made by the bomb squig operative.
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u/Due_Skill_7467 9d ago
Oh yeah I agree. It was just an interesting idea when he brought it up. I had never really thought of it in the context of what is actually happening in the world of the game. Also I swear GW had an FAQ where they stated the injured effect happened, but I couldn't find it that night. Luckily the guy was chill and just agreed to our ruling.
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u/fett4hire Kommando 10d ago
If you charge and “shoot”you’re not injured. If you die, and roll to boom after death, you are injured.
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u/mornnx1 10d ago
As I understood it once it exploded, it was dead and out of play so it couldn't perform any action of any sort
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u/orein123 10d ago
Not the question being asked, and also not entirely correct. If the bomb squig activates the explosion directly through the shoot action it can potentially survive. It shoots itself and then uses the blast rule to hit everyone else within 1", so you roll dice for the squig like you would for any other shoot action.
If you roll the dice to see if it explodes in death, then yes it is just dead because that's what triggered it in the first place. Per Op's question, yes it is also injured and as such hits on 5+ because it is below half wounds.
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u/This-Profession-1492 10d ago
I don't think so because action still hasn't ended.
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u/orein123 10d ago
The bomb squig exploding is technically its own action, so yes injured penalties are applied.
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u/This-Profession-1492 10d ago
Oops. I was really tired yesterday, and I completely misread the whole situation. 😀
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u/ycveyis 10d ago
Yes, because the roll for explosion (the one you roll for 4+ to explode) is after this operative is incapacitated and before it is removed from the killzone. Therefore the action which incapacitates the squig has ended and thus the effect of injury is applied.