A house rule that stops this is quite simple:
You allocate your Firepower to targets, then deduct the BM penalty from
each lot of firepower. Thus if you have 3 BMs and shoot at 2 different
targets, you lose 3 FP/SHW shots on each one.
This encourages concentration of all firepower of a unit onto one target
if you have a load of BMs, rather than the complex 2 FP here, 3 FP
there, which IMHO is quite reasonable.
It also has the great advantage of preventing such rules idiocy as
mentioned above.
True, unfortunaly, this takes a lot of the tactics of choosing targets out.
Besides, there are many cases where I you would WANT to split firepower. My
Titans do it all the time. for instance. I'll fire the D-cannon at that
reaver, because that is the only think D-cannon are good for :). The pulsar
will blast those Leman Russes and the wing weapons will tear into the
tactical infantry in front of me. Especially with a titan it is not always
possible to bring all your fire to bear on one target. Also, to take a less
extreme example. You have a detachment of Land Raiders and terminaors. The
Terminators will shoot the infantry in front of them, while the Raiders
will shoot up tanks or something else.
Also, putting one blast marker on one detachment and one on another does
not do anything, you need to pile on 5+ blast markers to actually seriously
incovenience the detachment.
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"Your incorrect assumptions are threefold."
"You assume law still reigns in the Five Galaxies"
"You assume that we would be bound by precedents and precepts from the last
10 million years."
"But your most incorrect assumption of all is to assume that we care."
-David Brin, Infinity's Shore
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