Strike on a 7+?

[Wizard Ekko]

Hi,

First of all, please excuse me for my poor english, the vocabulary, specially the technical one, is hard to use properly and I don't know much about it. In addition, I'm not sure that I am posting in the good section, if I made a mistake, please correct me and accept my apologies. Anyway, let's try 

When using a repeating crossbow and even with a BS of 4, the cumulated malus of: long range, cover, multiple fire and movement give you a "7+" to strike, but what rule should we apply, given that no 7 can be rolled on a regular dice  ?
1) The Warhammer and Necromunda rule: on a 7+, you must roll a 6 and then 4+ on an additionnal roll to strike
2) The "a 6 is always good" rule: you always hit on a 6.
3) The "after 6+, no one will ever save you": you cannot fire if a 7 must be rolled.

No need to precise I tried to find an answer by myself, but Google gave me nothing 

Best regards,

Ekko

[phil-o-mat]

number one.
if i remember it right.

phil

[someone2040]

7+ sounds right... but I can't actually find it. I just looked through the rules and the FAQ's as well and nothing! Maybe it's in the Annual... or hidden away somewhere... or maybe it is just a figment of the imagination caused by Warhammer.

[Wizard Ekko]

7+ sounds right... but I can't actually find it. I just looked through the rules and the FAQ's as well and nothing! Maybe it's in the Annual... or hidden away somewhere... or maybe it is just a figment of the imagination caused by Warhammer.

I've made my way through the rules and various FAQs I could find, including the Mordheimer one, but found no answer.
The 7+ rule sounds correct, I agree, but it comes from Warhammer and was probably created to avoid massive units of goblin that have, no matter the circonstances, a 17% luck to hit, which would clearly be overpowered. In Mordheim, things are slightly different, because a large number of warriors do not have access to shooting weapons, lowering the risk cited just above.

The question remains open, I think, but thank you for your answers  still looking forward to an official response to that one 

Ekko

[Darkson]

We always used to play #1, until we had a new player wo asked to see the rule, when we found we couldn't find it (we blame Necromunda!).
After that we played #3.
Also note, we couldn't find any rule that said a roll of a 1 is an automatic miss, to BS6 with no mnodifiers always hits (or did we miss that one as well?).

[RationalLemming]

@Ekko... I had no problem with your English in either of your posts. 

Option #3 is correct. If the rulebook doesn't say #1 or #2 (and I have never read either of these anywhere in the rulebook or FAQs or errata) then #3 applies. This means that it is possible for a shot to be impossible if the modifiers stack up against the shooter.

@Darkson... yeah I think that the rule that makes a 1 an automatic miss is technically a house rule but a lot of people do use that house rule (myself included) as auto hitting doesn't feel right.

[Wizard Ekko]

Hi,

Glad to know my english is not so terrible 

Okay so everyone seems to agree that the third solution is the good one, I'll test it like that and let you know if I find unfair situations applying it. I can already point out that this rule is clearly hard to handle with a fluffy Dark Elves band, since, even with BS 4, a 7 is likely to happen, but I'll try it anyway 

Thanks for your kind answers and see you in the streets of Mordheim