Thank you for the reply Peter. I didn't realize you had to keep the
stands more than 1cm apart unless they were on charge orders. I would
think that SOME advance fire would be OK but I'm really not sure I
would want to see it more than 5cm and probably at a -2 penalty due
to the heavier cover inside the forrest as opposed to being on the
edge.
Snew
--- In netepic_at_egroups.com, "Peter Ramos" <pramos2_at_u...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The problem arose when looking at what units were in the area. The
> Marines were in the forrest and only the Kult of Speed with their
> buggies and bikes were around. The forrest was small enough that the
> bikes could have gotten to the Marines in one turn at advance speed
> per the rules.
>
> I know these aren't the optimum units to use in this situation and
> we've ruled that they can't clear a forrest. They would be pretty
> good at holding one though. What I need to know is:
>
> 1)what happens when someone on advance ends his move within 1 cm of
> an enemy stand? If they can't initiate CC and the Marines can't fire
> on them is it just a stale mate?
>
> According to the rule you may not place units closer than 1cm if
not on
> charge orders, so in your example they cannot be placed that close.
Of
> course in essence it is a stalemate because one side cannot
initiate close
> combat and the other cannot fire. I always toyed with a visibility
rule for
> forest, something like firing range is reduced to 5 or 10cm with
attendant
> penalties.
>
> 2)let's say IG are in that forrest. They are pretty useless in CC so
> they really need to whittle down the enemy before they get there. It
> looks like they can't do it until the charge gets to them and they
> get their First Fire and hope that's enough.
>
> Of course we always try to set the units up on the edge of the
> forrest where they can take advantage of cover and still pick off
> others but the situation always arrises where they have to fall back
> into the forrest and surround the objective and the other group has
> to go in and get them.
>
> Perhaps the best thing is to allow firing in woods at a severely
reduced
> range like I mentioned above.
>
> Peter
Received on Sun May 14 2000 - 22:15:51 UTC