The Apollonian Spear

Attacks with this special rule cause Instant Death on a To Wound roll equal to the number in brackets associated with the specific rule. Roll any viable Saves against this Instant Death-causing Wound separately and before any other Wounds the attack inflicts.

A model fighting with this weapon does not receive +1 Attack for fighting with two weapons unless it is armed with two or more Melee weapons with the Specialist Weapon rule. The additional weapon does not have to be the same weapon as the one used to attack, but it must have the Specialist Weapon rule in order to grant an additional Attack for fighting with two weapons.

A unit that suffers one or more Wounds, regardless of whether those Wounds are Saved or otherwise discounted, from a weapon with this special rule must take a Leadership test at the end of the Shooting phase (if the attacks were inflicted as part of a Shooting Attack), or the current combat (if the attacks were inflicted as part of a Melee attack). If the test is failed then that unit’s WS is reduced by the value in brackets listed as part of the special rule until the end of the following Assault phase (if no value is listed then reduce the target unit’s WS by -1).

No matter how many times a unit has taken saved or unsaved Wounds from an attack with the Concussive special rule, it may only be forced to take one Leadership test because of it. If a single unit has been the target of several Concussive attacks with different values and fails the Leadership test, then it suffers the effects of the highest single modifier among those attacks – the effects do not stack or otherwise become cumulative.

After normal To Hit rolls for a weapon with this special rule have been made, count the number of Hits inflicted on a roll of equal to or more than the value listed in brackets as part of this rule. Immediately resolve a number of additional To Hit rolls on the same unit using the attacking models’ WS equal to the number of Hits counted earlier – any Hits scored roll To Wound as normal using the profile of the weapon with this special rule or a weapon chosen from those available to the model with this special rule if the rule is not applied to a specific weapon. These additional attacks do not themselves benefit from the
Lightning Blows (X) special rule, but do benefit from any other special rules possessed by the attacking model, such as Preferred Enemy (X) or Precision Strikes (X)