Damage Allocation

An interesting topic was posted on the Age of Sigmar Facebook group today which prompted this post. After playing many games against differing opponents in friendly play and in tournaments, and seeing it mentioned a few times, I have noticed that damage allocation has been wrongly interpreted.

The questionable rule excerpt:

The key points here are:

"After all of the attacks made by a unit have been carried out" and "you must keep on allocating wounds to that model until either it is slain, or no more wounds remain to be allocated."

For the most part, it has been played that damage must be allocated to the same model until it has been slain, no matter the source.

Rules as written, you must only allocate wounds to a model for each desperate unit that attacks. For each separate attacking unit, damage may be allocated to a different model of the player wishes as there is no rule saying he cannot.

I believe this to also be rules as intended as it seems to make realistic sense, although the potential downside is that you have more wounds to keep track of.

To add evidence to support this, here are abilities from a few Warscrolls that work read exactly as if it should be played this way:

Lord Castellant