Editing Fluffhammer 40k (section)

== Close Combat ==

Combat in 40k right now '''heavily''' favours hordes, which is not at all what the fluff suggests.  A number of changes that better allow players to represent elites versus mobs:

*Attacks may only be made against models in base contact
*All models pile in at the same time
*New weapon skill system:
**Equal weapon skill, both parties hit on 4+
**Higher weapon skill hits on 3+, Lower one on 5+
**A model with more than double the weapon skill on the target hits on a 2+
*If a unit kills all models in base contact before the enemy is able to strike any blows, then they gain charge bonuses in the next round of combat as well (as they use the space they've opened up to charge again)i.e. +1 A, rage/furious charge/hammer of wrath etc.
*A unit performing a sweeping advance uses its majority initiative; a unit receiving a sweep advance uses its lowest initiative
*Any model may add half its strength (not including any bonuses conferred by any CCW) rounding down in Pen to its close combat attacks (i.e. a standard attack from a marine would be Pen 2, a standard attack from a guardsman would be Pen 1, Pen 3 rifleman dreads etc.)
*Each CCW adds an attack, pairs add two (still can't claim a third attack though-only so many hands!)
*Specialist weapons calculate extra attacks the same way they currently do
*Hammer of Wrath has a Pen value equal to half the toughness, rounding up, of the unit making the attack (a dreadknight crashing into you hurts more than any assault marine could!).
*Charge Distance: D3xInitiative inches