Immunity

Special Skills

Troopers with this Special Skill have an extraordinary innate or artificial capacity to withstand specific types of damage. There are several Immunities categories.

IMMUNITY

AUTOMATIC SKILL

Obligatory

REQUIREMENTS

This Special Skill is activated when one of the following Requirements is met:

The Trooper must make a Saving Roll.
The Trooper is affected by the State indicated in their Immunity.

EFFECTS

This Special Skill has different categories shown between brackets in the Unit's Profile, which indicates to which type of Ammunition or Effect it is applied. The most common are:

Immunity (Trait): The Trooper ignores the special effects of the listed Trait.
Immunity (Ammunition): The Ammunition listed between brackets is treated as Normal (N) Ammunition. Its special effects, and any MODs to the Attribute and number of the Saving Rolls are ignored.
Immunity (ARM): Any Ammunition that requires a Saving Roll using the ARM Attribute is treated as Normal (N) Ammunition. Its special effects, and any MODs to the Attribute and number of the Saving Rolls are ignored.
If the Weapon, Skill, or piece of Equipment used in the Attack has Traits, the Trooper is completely immune to any of those Traits that cause States, refer to inflicting Wounds, or reduce the Attributes of the target. For example, State: Dead, Continuous Damage, or ARM=0.
Immunity (BTS): Any Ammunition that requires a Saving Roll using the BTS Attribute is treated as Normal (N) Ammunition. Its special effects, and any MODs to the Attribute and number of the Saving Rolls are ignored.
If the Weapon, Skill, or piece of Equipment used in the Attack has Traits, the Trooper is completely immune to any of those Traits that cause States, refer to inflicting Wounds, or reduce the Attributes of the target. For example, State: Dead, Continuous Damage, or BTS=0.
Immunity (Enhanced): A Trooper with this Special Skill has both Immunity (ARM) and Immunity (BTS).
Immunity (State): the Trooper is completely immune to any Comms Attack effect or special rule effect that causes the listed State, for example Possessed (POS). The Trooper cannot enter that State.
Immunity (Critical): The Trooper will not make the additional Saving Roll caused by Critical hits.

IMPORTANT

This Special Skill does not apply against Comms Attacks, with the sole exception of Immunity (State).

Also, Immunity does not apply against the Non-Lethal and State: Stunned Traits, which are always applied.

Immunity and Critical Hits

If a Trooper suffers a Critical hit with the Ammunition, effect, Attribute, State, etc. which it is immune to, unless they have Immunity (Critical), they will have to make the additional Saving Roll, but ignoring any Special Effects of the Ammunition, since it is treated as Normal (N) Ammunition.

SEE ALSO

Combined Saving Roll

Example 4
A Trooper with Immunity (BTS) is hit by a Flash Pulse. Thanks to their Immunity (BTS), the hit is treated as being made with Normal Ammunition. However, the Non-Lethal Trait of the Weapon, indicating that it does not inflict Wounds, is applied. In addition, the State: Stunned Trait is applied if the Trooper fails their Saving Roll.

Special Skills