So I understand this correctly. When shooting minions (say a group of 3 Aqualish thugs) the group has 18 wounds but does the soak go up? and if you overkill a minion do you get more kills or just the one and the rest disappears? Example- I just did 10 damage and I have a triumph. did I just kill 2 thugs or 1?

Soak does not go up. Overkill does carry over so 10 damage and a triumph kills 2.

Thank you for the reply. It was helpful.

Also, remember that each minion is defeated once the wounds are exceeded. So by your example, 3 Aqualish thugs with 6 wounds each, the first one is defeated at 7 total wounds, the second at 13, and the last at 19. I have found that it is hepful to write minions wounds as "6/12/18" (using your example of the 3 thugs again) to help track when a minion is defeated.

And just an FYI, a defeated minion isn't necessarily dead. They are down and out of the fight and removed from the group for skill ranks and such.