Demise (Explosive)

[Steve-El-Tragger]

Is Demisece Explosive stackable since it has a +?
For Example, if i give land mines to the steam trunk, does he get demise (explosive +4)?

[Adran]

Yes. That's basically what the + is there for.

[Allandrel]

Yes, any ability with a +X value in its name is stackable. (Digital Rulebook, Page 24, under "Abilities.")

Apart from that, the + serves the simple purpose of having one ability that can have different values, rather than having to create a separate named ability for Demise (Explosive +1) Demise (Explosive +2), and so on.

This is, I expect, why Vengeance has a +1 value rather than doing a flat one damage - it is future-proofing for later models that may have higher levels of Vengeance, or effects that give a model Vengeance.

(Of course, it is also possible that this is an artifact of the beta, where Kirai had Vengeance +2 for a while, and when they lowered her vengeance they never considered that now every model with Vengeance had it a +1. Kind of like how Mindless says that no player discards tokens from the model being summoned, when summoning does not make anyone discard tokens... but it did in the beta, and they evidently just never revised Mindless when that rule was removed.)