Necromunda rulebook - Games Workshop

Necromundan Underhive fighters carry a variety
of weaponry. Individual fighters often have
several different weapons such as grenades,
pistols, knives and guns.
During the shooting phase of your turn each of
your fighters may shoot once with one of his
weapons. So you can either shoot a laspistol, fire
a boltgun, or throw a grenade, for example.
Work through your models one at a time. Pick
which fighter is going to shoot, nominate his
target, work out if he hits his enemy and, if he
does so, any wounds or injuries caused, and
then continue to the next shooter. You can take
shots in any order you wish.
WHO CAN SHOOT
Each model can shoot once in the shooting
phase so long as he can see a target and
assuming he has a suitable weapon and isn’t
fighting in hand-to-hand combat (as described
later). The fighter is always assumed to face in
the direction faced by the model itself, and is
able to see within a 90 degree arc to his front.
You can only shoot at a target within this arc as
shown on the diagram below.
A
90º
In the diagram target A is within the 90º arc of sight and
so can be shot at. Target B cannot be shot at becasue he
is outside the 90º arc of sight.
To shoot at a target a fighter must be able to see
it, and the only way to check this is to stoop over
the tabletop for a model’s eye view. Sometimes it
will be obvious whether a target can be seen, at
other times it will be more difficult as buildings
and girders will be in the way. So long as the
shooter can see at least a part of the target’s
body he can shoot, even if all that can be seen is
SHOOTING
B
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an arm or leg. If he can see nothing but the tip
of a gun or the end of a sword then he cannot
shoot as he is unable to see the target’s body. If
in doubt, and if you’ve checked the shot from
both the firer’s and the target’s view and still
can’t decide, then roll a dice – on a 1, 2 or 3 you
can’t see and on a 4, 5 or 6 you can.
CLOSEST TARGET
You must shoot at the closest enemy as he
represents the most immediate threat and
therefore the most obvious target. However, you
can fire at a more distant target if it is easier to
hit. For example, a closer target may be hard to
hit because it is partly obscured by cover whilst
a more distant target might be in the open and
therefore an easier shot.
B
C
D
A
In this diagram the closet traget is A but he is obscured
by cover and so is more difficult to hit than the more
distant targets B, C and D. In this situation the firer may
shoot at Target B since he is the closer of the more distant
tagerts even though he is further away than target A.