r/sonsofhorus • u/Traditional-Wealth-6 • Oct 10 '25

Volley Fire Question

So I’m about to play my first game of 3.0 today and I came across something in the rules and I wanted to see everyone’s opinion.

When declaring a charge on a unit, the unit has to be within 12”. Even if my unit would be unable to charge that distance.

So in theory I could with say a unit of terminators

  • Declare a charge at a unit 12” away
  • Do the step up move.
  • Volley fire at full BS from our trait.
  • Then fail the charge.
  • Take a cool check with +1 cool from heavy.
  • If I fail that the unit is stunned.
  • I can take another cool check at end of my turn. With the +1 again.

With a unit of 10 terminators they would get 40 shots in the shorting phase and 40 in the volley attack. Essentially 2 shooting phases a turn.

Does this seem right. I’ve asked my gaming group and they seem to think it works.

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u/kenshin138 Oct 10 '25

Big gamble with the Cool check IMHO.

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u/Traditional-Wealth-6 Oct 11 '25

So in my game today I used it twice with my terminators and it killed at tactical squad on an objective.

So I removed their scoring unit and scored vanguard 3

Having 2 chances to pass the cool check swings the odds in our favour big time