On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Andy Skinner wrote:
>
> >Pop-ups do LOS from the top of the intervening terrian.... no more "see
> >everything"
> I don't understand. How high they go depends on how high
> terrain near them is? If 'S' below is the skimmer, does it
> pop up just high enough to be a little over the building in
> front of it? So what it can see depends on how close it and
> the target are to the terrain (the building)? (Can see T2,
> but not T1.)
>
> *
> : +--+
> : | |
> : | |
> S | | T1 T2
> --------------------+ +--------------------------
Yes.
>
> >> Do models still have to be 6cm apart?
> >No but all units in a detachment must stay within 30cm of HQ unit.
> Is that a HQ unit for the detachment, or a company
> or army HQ unit?
A detachment is the basic tactical unit in E40k. They take the place of
companies + support, but they can vary greatly in size and makeup.
> >Consider them multi-sided counters. No rolling of order dice is used.
> Oh. How many do you get? It seems like this would
> be an expensive way to handle this, using dice
> where cardboard counters were sufficient.
Looks like 6... and since when has GW cared about expense?
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