<p>Blast damage are half-strength or half pow attacks. A Direct Hit of any AOE weapon is "normal" damage, everything else in the AOE suffer blast damage.</p>

<p>Thus the target directly hit suffer an unboosted hit. That might seems counter-intuitive but it's basically (even unboosted) always strictly superior in term of damage, except for very very low damage attacks/weapons.</p>

<p>Source : Blast Damage rules in the little handbook (in my printed version it's around page 57)</p>

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2017-06-19T15:27:47.093Z
That's what I expected, I just wanted to make sure the direct hit of an AOE attack wasn't also considered blast damage.
Mark
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2017-06-20T07:38:20.663Z
It's kind of a confusing rule, so it's no trouble! Have fun blasting everything!
LamaDelRay
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<p>So Dozer and Smigg have a bond with Gunnbjorne which states that while in his control range, D&amp;S gain boosted blast damage rolls. <em>If a shot from their Bombard directly hits, is the damage roll auto boosted from the bond?</em>  What I'm not clear on is if a direct hit with an AOE weapon is considered blast damage.</p>

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Dozer and Smigg & Gunnbjorne boosted blast damage rolls
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# Dozer and Smigg & Gunnbjorne boosted blast damage rolls

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-05-27)

So Dozer and Smigg have a bond with Gunnbjorne which states that while in his control range, D&S gain boosted blast damage rolls. *If a shot from their Bombard directly hits, is the damage roll auto boosted from the bond?* What I'm not clear on is if a direct hit with an AOE weapon is considered blast damage.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-19. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

Blast damage are half-strength or half pow attacks. A Direct Hit of any AOE weapon is "normal" damage, everything else in the AOE suffer blast damage.

Thus the target directly hit suffer an unboosted hit. That might seems counter-intuitive but it's basically (even unboosted) always strictly superior in term of damage, except for very very low damage attacks/weapons.

Source : Blast Damage rules in the little handbook (in my printed version it's around page 57)

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: That's what I expected, I just wanted to make sure the direct hit of an AOE attack wasn't also considered blast damage.  
> **username_1**: It's kind of a confusing rule, so it's no trouble! Have fun blasting everything!  

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