How to kill a Pigapult?

[Sezar]

What is it needed to do to kill a Pigapult?

It does have 5 Wd and Object 5. What does it mean?

Thanks in advance

[Cunning]

You need to do more than 5 wds in one hit to make it lose wounds. Object is basically the same as armour except it affects wounds rather than damage.

[Fetid Strumpet]

You still can't reduce wounds coming in to less than one. So if you hit you'll do 1 wd at least as long as you don't flip the black joker or have 0 dmg as a weak dmg.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

So yeah a lot of work usually to kill an object. Poison does wonders, and other delayed damage effects. Or auto kill/sac actions like headshot.

Usually it means you have to hit it 5 times to kill it, or red joker dmg with a beat stick. Very few models can do 7 dmg on a strike.

[Ozz]

I thought it was just armour that cant be ignored, that it affects Wounds as well as Dg is awesome!

[Q'iq'el]

I thought it was just armour that cant be ignored, that it affects Wounds as well as Dg is awesome!

It affects just Wd. If something else reduces Dg before, then Object will reduce Wd further, but in the most cases it is functionally no different to an Armor that cannot be ignored.

[Bigkid]

It's probably best ignored in all honesty.

Just remove it's ammo supply and poor old S'omer has a nice heavy paperweight...

[i_was_like_you]

Rules-wise, Poison does do a great job of killing it, but flavor-wise, I'd say models with the Object trait should be immune to Poison, similar to how models with Ablaze (Iggy, Fire Gamin) are immune to Burning tokens.

[Q'iq'el]

Rules-wise, Poison does do a great job of killing it, but flavor-wise, I'd say models with the Object trait should be immune to Poison, similar to how models with Ablaze (Iggy, Fire Gamin) are immune to Burning tokens.

Poison can be many things. Fast acting corrosives, acids perhaps? Who can tell if the poison users change the substance they apply depending on target or not?

[Sholto]

Just bring Bete Noir and watch the Som'er player's face as he is about to Sacrifice his first ammo-pig

[i_was_like_you]

Just bring Bete Noir and watch the Som'er player's face as he is about to Sacrifice his first ammo-pig

Oh, wow, that'd be great.

[Kadeton]

Out of interest, how does Poison "do a great job of killing it"? Poison does Wounds, which are reduced by Object, so it will only be taking a single Wound per turn from Poison. That doesn't seem any better than just hitting it with any other attack to do 1 Wd.

[Sholto]

@Kadeton - the point is it will be dead by the end of the game, since it has so few Wounds, and you don't need to spend any more AP hitting it to get that result. If you need it dead sooner, then hitting it more is the better option

@I_was_like_you - It was. Only downside was, I was the Som'er player...

[i_was_like_you]

Aww, that sucks. Did they take your pic to show you your expression?

[Sholto]

No But I did work out what to do to stop it being a problem: surround the Pig with other models. Bete has to be placed in base contact with the Sacrificed model before it is removed from play, and if she cannot be placed, she stays off the table.

[i_was_like_you]

Sounds risky. I guess it depends on whether the enemy has s available and in range. Nicodem Decaying the whole lot of them wouldn't be any more fun than Black Betty showing up to carve the ham.

[Q'iq'el]

Out of interest, how does Poison "do a great job of killing it"? Poison does Wounds, which are reduced by Object, so it will only be taking a single Wound per turn from Poison. That doesn't seem any better than just hitting it with any other attack to do 1 Wd.

I think that Poison, technically, causes 1 Wd from each Poison token, so each Poison token is a separate source of damage?

1 Poison token is no better than 1Wd attack, but 2 Poison Tokens will cause 3 Wds in 2 turns, for which you'd have to conduct 3 separate attacks otherwise.

Unless I'm mistaken as to how the Poison damage gets applied.

[Adran]

The model suffers 1 wd per poison token on it at the start of its activation and then discards 1 token, so Object does work, but unless its a high poison number, its not much difference.

Its not a great job, but its better than nothing in that each poison token is the same as another attack doing up to 6 wounds

[Omenbringer]

Until of course a gremlin fixes it with the granted Jury-rig Pigapult action.