This will be the first installment of our new series of rules-based quizzes, which we’ve affectionately titled “Cross Examination”. Our goal with these quizzes is to help players familiarize themselves with the new 6th edition rules. You’ll pay more attention if it’s going to be on a test later, right? For the most part these will be based on questions that have caused one or both players to “go to the book” during a playtest, FLGS, or tourney game. 6th edition is slow enough without having to constantly raid the rulebook for answers, so hopefully knowing the answers to these quizzical questions will help us all play faster, smarter 40k. Quiz yourself, quiz your friends, quiz your dog. Print ‘em out and use ‘em for bonus points in your next FLGS tourney (and if you want to plug our site in your tourney packet, even better!). Enjoy!
Without further ado, on to the quiz!
Question 1. Going to ground in area terrain gives what bonus to a unit’s cover save?
Question 2. A walker with 4 melee weapons gets how many bonus attacks from its weapons?
Question 3. Can an Independent Character embarked on a chariot issue a challenge in close combat?
Question 4. Can a dedicated transport executing a scout redeployment move “flat out” for an extra 6″ of movement?
Question 5. Units on bikes automatically receive what special rules?
Question 6. A Space Marine Biker turbo-boosts in its shooting phase and ends his move completely in the open. What if any cover save does he receive in the opponent’s next shooting phase (assuming no intervening models or obscuring terrain whatsoever).
Question 7. After hitting a vehicle, a weapon with the Haywire special rule causes what effect on the D6 roll of 2?
Question 8. You deep strike your unit and scatter onto an enemy unit, causing a mishap. Oops! What happens to the unit when you roll a 2 on the mishap table?
Question 9. Name two possible drawbacks of having one of your units with Furious Charge charge two or more enemy units at the same time in 6th edition.
Question 10. You’ve hit and penetrated a vehicle using your Strength 7, AP – weapon. You roll a 3 on the D6 to determine damage result. What is the damage result?
And now, the answers. No peeking until you’re done! Cheater!
Answer 1. +2 to its cover save. See 6th ed. BGB p. 91 “Models that Go to Ground in area terrain receive +2 to their cover save, rather than +1.”
Answer 2. 3 bonus attacks. See 6th ed. BGB p. 84 “If a Walker is armed with two or more Melee weapons, it gains +1 bonus Attack for each additional weapon after the first. Unlike other models, this is not limited to a single bonus atttack, …”
Answer 3. No. See 6th ed. BGB p. 82 “A rider cannot issue or accept challenges from the back of a Chariot, nor can he perform a Glorious Intervention.”
Answer 4. No. See 6th ed. BGB p. 41 “If it is any other unit type [than Infantry, Artillery, Walker, or Monstrous Creature], each model can instead redeploy anywhere entirely within 12″ of its current position.”
Answer 5. Hammer of Wrath, Jink, and Relentless. See 6th ed. BGB p. 45 “bikes and Jetbikes have the Hammer of Wrath, Jink, and Relentless special rules.”
Answer 6. A 4+ cover save. See 6th ed. BGB p. 38 “JINK … If a model with this special rule moves Flat Out or Turbo-boosts, it instead gains a 4+ cover save until the start of its next Movement phase.”
Answer 7. A glancing hit. See 6th ed. BGB p. 37, chart at bottom right.
Answer 8. Your opponent gets to place the unit anywhere on the table. See 6th ed. BGB p. 36 “Your opponent may deploy the unit anywhere on the table (excluding impassable and lethal terrain, but including difficult terrain, which of course counts as dangerous for deep striking units), in a valid Deep Strike formation, but without rolling for scatter.”
Answer 9. Acceptable answers include: Your unit does not gain the +1 attack bonus for charging. See 6th ed. BGB p. 27 Your unit does not gain the bonus for Furious Charge. See 6th ed. BGB p. 37 Your unit is susceptible to overwatch from multiple units. See 6th ed. BGB p. 27. Let us know if we’ve missed any!
Answer 10. Crew Stunned. See 6th ed. BGB p. 74, chart at left.
