Stone Throwers

Pivot to face the target as with any war machine, then nominate a model or building within line of sight (ignoring other models in the same unit), outside minimum range and within maximum range. Place the small round (3") template centred over the target -- it can never be placed over a friendly model, or an enemy model already in combat, since the crew won't deliberately target their own side (though a wayward shot might still hit them by accident).

Once the template is placed, roll a scatter die and an artillery die. A misfire sends you to the Stone Thrower Misfire table instead, and the stone thrower doesn't fire this turn regardless of the result. Otherwise, a Hit! on the scatter die means the shot lands exactly on target (ignore the artillery die); an arrow means it scatters -- move the template a number of inches equal to the artillery die's result, in the direction shown.

The model under the template's central hole (if any) takes an automatic hit at the stone thrower's higher Strength (normally 10) -- if the hole ends up over several models after scattering, pick one at random. Every other model wholly or partially under the template takes an automatic hit at the lower Strength (normally 4) instead, showered by debris rather than struck directly.

The stone thrower's Multiple Wounds (D6) rule applies only to the high-Strength hit under the central hole -- unsaved wounds from the low-Strength hits are never multiplied. This makes a stone thrower especially good at both killing tough single models and grinding through massed ranks at once.

A stone thrower's high arc lets it fire at targets it can't actually see -- declare an indirect shot before firing; it needs no line of sight, but is otherwise a normal shot with the usual range requirements. Indirect fire is less accurate: an arrow on the scatter die scatters as normal, but a Hit! doesn't land on target as it normally would -- instead it scatters a shorter distance in the direction shown by the Hit! symbol's own small arrow, equal to the artillery die's result minus the crew's Ballistic Skill (to a minimum of zero). Everything else about an indirect shot follows the normal stone thrower rules.

Roll a D6 on the table below whenever a stone thrower misfires.