Parrying+Spines.

[Ram Rock Ed First]

The rules for parrying say that you can only parry the first hit against you and where multiple hits occur only the highest to hit roll.

What happens with spines and parrying?

Spines automatically hit at strength 1 before any other hits are scored in a combat.

Do the spines automatically make all attempts to parry attacks redundent in that combat?

Cheers,

Luke.

[ANSWER_MOD_DABANK]

You answered it yourself, spines automatically hit thus you can't parry them.

[Master]

Will you lose your ability to parry because you are hit by spines?

[ANSWER_MOD_DABANK]

How would you parry it if it is an automatic hit? There is nothing to roll against so Yes, you would lose your parry.

[Eliazar]

Just to make it clear... if you are hit by spines, which you can't parry because they auto hit, you cannot parry the "normal" attacks of that model either?

[cianty]

Just to make it clear... if you are hit by spines, which you can't parry because they auto hit, you cannot parry the "normal" attacks of that model either?

Yes. You can only parry the first hit per combat and that is dealt by the spines. Seems clear.

I never deemed Spines a very useful choice until Ram pointed out how great they are at negating Parries and lucky charms.

[Ram Rock Ed First]

Just to make it clear... if you are hit by spines, which you can't parry because they auto hit, you cannot parry the "normal" attacks of that model either?

Yes. You can only parry the first hit per combat and that is dealt by the spines. Seems clear.

I never deemed Spines a very useful choice until Ram pointed out how great they are at negating Parries and lucky charms.

I didn't actually realise they negated parries hence why I posted it up as it just seems to me to be an iffy matter but fair play to no parries against it.

I always advocated spines over black blood in the past because of the stripping of Lucky Charms but also because I've seen first hand how much damage they can do - where Black Blood willc ause wounds onlyw hen you are wounded Spines do it every round if you hit enough targets (yeah we had a necromancer summoning zombies choking floors of buildings toe scape that game was so much fun, something like 40 zombies died to spine attacks...).

Cheers for the rules clarification.

Luke.

[ANSWER_MOD_DABANK]

This topic is now closed also, it has been answered by me twice now.