Template Weapons & Deviation

[VisOne]

Had this come up in a game yesterday.

In my active turn my moved forward to Sekban draw LOF to a Tohaa Sakiel and I fired this Heavy Rocket Launcher at it. I needed to put the large circle template down as its a large fire damage template weapon twice and roll to see if my shot was successful. Both were good and I managed to kill the model targeted and another near by to easy things die.

BUT!

What would have happened if I failed my roll?

Would it deviate/disperse?

If so how?

Where do you place the template in direction of the No.1 symbol for example if you have a template weapon you are firing with LOF to its target

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My opponent that you put the No.1 symbol towards the direction of your initial shot. I.E. you draw a line from your model to theirs tracing the line at which your projectile in this case my missile would have too travel.

However I cannot find anywhere that it states this is the case with a shot that is NOT a Speculative Shot. Which in the case of firing at an enemy model within your LOF is clearly not.

Thoughts?

[IJW Wartrader]

Only parabolic weapons (ones which can fire speculatively) disperse. Everything else just 'misses' and does nothing.

[VisOne]

Right,

Next question.

So dispersion works different based on what you are doing though?

I.E. a weapon fired or grenade thrown speculatively will disperse with 1 in the direction of the weapon being fired/thrown?

While AD combat jump will always have 1 towards the middle of the board?

[Pierzasty]

Yes. AD has no "jump direction" to speak of, so 1 points towards the center of the table.

[VisOne]

Too easy had not read into speculative shot enough to realize there wasn't just one normal rule for all dispersion.

Personally I would have kept it as one rule to rule them all but that's just me. This makes allot of sense still.