Rules Compendium

+/- Dice

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+DICE-DICEGameplay ExampleCombing +DICE and -DICeInjury DiceDice & Injury Dice

The rules often require you to add extra dice to a roll. These are shown in the format “

+1 Dice
” or “
-1 Dice
” (for example, shooting from elevated positions adds
+1 Dice
to Ranged Attacks against enemies).

+DICE

For each

+dice
, add 1 dice to the Success Roll. Then roll all the dice and pick the 2 highest rolls. For example,
+1 Dice
means you roll 3 dice and pick the 2 highest. If
+2 Dice
were added, you would roll 4 dice and pick the 2 highest, and so on.

-DICE

The

-dice
works in reverse, so for each
-1 Dice
, add 1 dice to the Success Roll and pick the 2 lowest rolls. For example,
-1 Dice
means you roll 3 dice and pick the 2 lowest. If
-2 Dice
were added, you would roll 4 dice and pick the 2 lowest, and so on.

Gameplay Example

A Success Roll is taken by a Trench Pilgrim to see if a Ranged Attack they are making with their Bolt-Action Rifle hits a Heretic model. The Heretic is in Cover, which adds

-1 Dice
to the Success Rolls for the Trench Pilgrim’s Ranged Attack. No other modifiers apply to the attack. 3 dice are rolled for the attack, and come up 5, 5 and 1. The two lowest rolls are picked (a 5 and the 1) giving a Success Roll of 6. The Success Roll has failed and so the Trench Pilgrim’s shot misses!

Combing +DICE and -DICe

If both

+dice
and
-dice
are added to the same Success Roll, remove pairs of
+dice
and
-dice
until only one type is remaining. For example, if two
+dice
and one
-dice
were added to the same Success Roll, one
+dice
would cancel out the
-dice
, leaving a single
+dice
to modify the roll.

Injury Dice

The rules will sometimes refer to

+/
-
INJURY DICE. These work in the same way as
+/
-
DICE except that they add dice to an Injury Roll rather than a Success Roll.

Dice & Injury Dice

Note that if a model or piece of Battlekit has the

+/
-
DICE Keyword, then the Keyword only applies to Success Rolls, not to Injury Rolls. By the same token, if a model or piece of Battlekit has the
+/
-
INJURY DICE Keyword, then the Keyword only applies to Injury Rolls and not to Success Rolls.

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