Excess damage when wounding a Hero

By MaxTeranous, in Imperial Assault Rules Questions

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Was playing this rather marvellous game last night, but come up with 1 rules thing i couldn't find clarity on in the Rules Reference.

In Campaign, example, a Healthy Hero with 2 health left gets hit by a single attack, causing 4 damage. Do you:

a) Put the first 2 damage on, flip the card to Wounded, clear all damage then put the remaining 2 damage on from the attack, leaving a wounded Hero with 2 damage markers

or

b) Put the 4 damage on, flip the card to Wounded, clear all damage, leaving a wounded Hero with no damage markers

Thanks for any assistance !

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c) it would take 2 of the damage the rest would get ignored (this is in-case there is an ability that needs to know how much damage was taken)

then all damage would be removed leaving the hero with no damage markers

then the hero card would flip to the wounded side

page 10 Rules Reference Guide, Damage

• When a figure has suffered damage equal to or exceeding its Health, it is defeated.
.....other stuff related to damage......

• A figure cannot suffer damage in excess of its Health. Any damage over this amount has no effect.

page 10 Rules Reference Guide, Defeated
When a figure has a number of damage tokens equal to its Health,
the figure is defeated.
• When a hero is defeated for the first time during a mission, he is wounded and flips his Hero sheet to the wounded side.
If a wounded hero is defeated, he withdraws and is removed from the map.
page 25 Rules Reference Guide, Wounded
During a campaign, when a healthy hero suffers damage equal to his Health he is wounded.
He discards all damage tokens and flips his Hero sheet to the wounded side.
If his strain exceeds his new Endurance value, he discards any strain tokens that exceed his Endurance.
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OK, great thanks !