thrown weapons and facing

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by hcobb

ITL 106: "A physical attack made from an enemy’s side hex adds +2 to the attacker’s DX."

So you only get the facing bonus from an adjacent hex. It doesn't matter which hexes the dagger flies through from there.

Then why specifically mention that missile weapons don't benefit from facing bonuses--just for that edge-case when a figure moves to be adjacent to a missile weapon user and then turns to give them a side or rear hex target? That would be uncharacteristically fastidious compared to the rest of the rules.