Originally Posted by
stonehorse
There is only one such instance where it says such, as I have shown previously there are more cases of it saying each phase than there are of it saying shooting phase. page 67 seventh paragraph. Monstrous Creatures can fire up to two of their weapons each shooting phase - they must, of course, fire both at the same target. They may never Go to Ground, voluntary or otherwise
Again using the above Hive Tyrant scenario I gave above. It uses both the Monstrous Creature rules (page 67 seventh paragraph. Monstrous Creatures can fire up to two of their weapons each shooting phase - they must, of course, fire both at the same target. They may never Go to Ground, voluntary or otherwise) , and also the rules for Flying Monstrous Creatures(Page 68 third paragraph.In addition to the special rules that all Monstrous Creatures have, Flying Monstrous Creatures have the Jink and Vector Strike special rule.).
Now if I am to use both, they both contradict each other, and this create an issue. One says shooting phase (page 67 seventh paragraph. Monstrous Creatures can fire up to two of their weapons each shooting phase - they must, of course, fire both at the same target. They may never Go to Ground, voluntary or otherwise), and is the only such time this is mention in the book, while the other says normally. (Page 69 third paragraph, Flying Monstrous Creatures are quick-witted predators, able to track their targets even when moving at high speeds. They can, therefore fire upto two of their weapons normally, even if Swooping (provided that they don't run). Flying Monstrous Creatures can shoot all around, just like other non-vehicle models.)
So this creates a scenario where they are both right, yet both wrong, as I have to apply both, yet can't. So creates a stale mate, however there is another place that mentions firing more than one weapon and it is as such. Page 31 last paragraph, Typically, a model can only fire a single shooting weapon in the same phase, although some models, such as vehicles or monstrous creatures, can shoot two or more. Once a Model has fired its maximum number of weapons, it cannot fire again that phase. This resolves the stalemate, as it doesn't mention shooting phase, but rather phase. And this doesn't mention anything about advanced rule verses basic rule, or special rule.
One more thing, and this is really pedantic of me, page 67 and Page 69 both use 'up to', however one spells it as up to, and the other as upto. You will see in all my above quotes I have quoted it as written from the book, to show this error (as I type this I am looking at a few annoying red underlines to show a spelling mistake), these sentences that contradict each other about the shooting, and use a different sentence structure, thus add more weight to the rules being written badly and/or by several writers who where not writing together and as such where not made aware of any little nuances created from their colleagues choice of sentence structure and words.