11-18-2019, 09:48 AM | #1 |
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Rule Qs: Turrets, ENG OVR, Battlesuits
Three questions:
(1) According to the latest 6th Ed Ogre rules, if I place a Laster Turret in a Town hex, can it shoot out of that hex? (I'm thinking no, but I'm not sure.) (2) When Vulcans/Combat Engineers overrun a Building with SPs, the rules say the damage is doubled. Normally, units are at 4 x their firepower in overruns against buildings (11.04.2). But 11.04.5 says that Vulcans and Combat Engineers do damage equal to 16 x their firepower. Now I'm pretty good at math, and it seems to me that this should say 8 x, not 16 x. Or is 11.04.5, when it talks about the "damage done during a building overrun", also taking into account a unit's being able to attack a building twice across multiple overrun rounds (per 11.04.2)? (3) And finally a Battlesuit gamette question from memory: I always wondered whether drones were ground-movement only, whether they hovered just above the ground, or whether they used the "Jump +" chits just like full Battlesuits. Anyone know? |
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11-18-2019, 12:50 PM | #3 | |||
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12.02: To determine Laser line of sight, place a straightedge between the centers of the Laser hex and the target hex. If the line enters or crosses any forbidden terrain, or runs along a line between two hexes of forbidden terrain, the Laser cannot fire. What makes me suspicious is the LOS "from the center of the Laser hex" is blocked if it "crosses any forbidden terrain"--which, strictly speaking, it would if the Laser were in [the center of] a town hex. Quote:
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11-18-2019, 01:56 PM | #4 | |
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12.02: To determine Laser line of sight, place a straightedge between the centers of the Laser hex and the target hex. If the line enters or crosses any forbidden terrain outside the laser turret's hex, or runs along a line between two hexes of forbidden terrain, the Laser cannot fire. The bold section is my addition, and both answers your question and eliminates a silly case of 'That will never work!'...
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11-18-2019, 02:54 PM | #5 | |
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My biggest hesitancy was that a Laser Turret is not way up in the air (like a Laser Tower), and so to have 360 degree coverage from the center of an isolated Town hex, the Laser LLOS would have to have some devilish optics. Anyway, I mostly wondered how it was meant to be played. |
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11-18-2019, 07:18 PM | #6 |
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Re: Rule Qs: Turrets, ENG OVR, Battlesuits
Two more related questions:
(4) Can Lasers check LLOS before firing? Or does the mere checking of LOS indicate an attempted firing, and thereby--clear or blocked--prevent it from trying to shoot at the target in a different hex during the same turn? (5) In the scenario Casey Joneski (which I'm setting up to play, and hence all of my questions), does the train need to stop in the final hex 0413, or can it merely blast on through the hex (even if the ensuing hex has the railroad cut in it)? Thanks! |
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11-18-2019, 10:10 PM | #8 | |
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11-19-2019, 08:54 AM | #9 |
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11-19-2019, 12:06 PM | #10 |
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Re: Rule Qs: Turrets, ENG OVR, Battlesuits
One of the cool things about laser weaponry IRL is you just use the firing optics as your sighting scope.
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