Topic: Guardians [shooting at marines]

[Pathofskulls]

question about the guardians, if you have your squad of guardians out on the field in close combat with space marines, and its ur turn is there any point in attacking them, if you attack them and over half of your shots hit the targets and say theres only five space marines is that enough to actually kill them or was it a wasted effort

[Rasmus]

You cannot shoot into close combat, so if your guardians are in close-combat with the marines you are not allowed to shoot at them under normal circumstances. If you are able to (say, shooting at non-engaged marines) then five Eldar shooting, ten shoots, five hitting and 2 wounding should result in a kill, making the combat a bit easier for the squad involved. They cannot shoot though, as they are involved in the combat.

If you care to elaborate on your question I am sure we can come up with a better answer for you, since your question is a bit weirdly forumlated.

[GuardiansRock]

It's never a wasted effort if you get the chance to shoot.  I've rolled 40 dice before that only resulted in 3 dead marines, but hey, that's 3 less attacks per turn in the CC that's about to begin.  When guardians get in CC, they're going to be taking enough wounds that they're usually bound to lose the combat and have a 33% chance of running.  Any attacks that you can take away from your enemy bring you that much closer to a drawn combat.