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Matt Huang wrote:

darth korte wrote:And glancing hits agaist vehicles, are counted as penetrating hits.

Only for meltaweapons. There are non-melta AP 1 weapons as well, most notably the Wraithcannon, which causes a glancing hit on a 4+ and a penetrating hit on a 5+.

In addition, if the target is a skimmer that's moved beyond 6", all penetrating hits are automatically downgraded to glancing.

That's actually a property of all AP 1 weapons that don't use a fixed penetration roll. The Tau railgun also benefits from this rule. The melta special rule is completely different. One oddity that this produces is that melta bombs are less effective against tanks than melta guns. Melta bombs are not a shooting attack, so they don't have an AP and can't benefit from the AP 1 rule.
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Raxmei wrote:That's actually a property of all AP 1 weapons that don't use a fixed penetration roll. The Tau railgun also benefits from this rule. The melta special rule is completely different. One oddity that this produces is that melta bombs are less effective against tanks than melta guns. Melta bombs are not a shooting attack, so they don't have an AP and can't benefit from the AP 1 rule.
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d'oh, your right about the AP 1 rule.