Re: [Epic] [Epic 40K]

From: J. Michael Looney <mlooney_at_...>
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 14:14:18 -0500

Elias Tiliakos wrote:
 
> The specific phrase I wanted to point out is that they said
> _friendly_ troops do not block lines of fire. I think this
> means that _enemy_ troops do (or at least should) block lines
> of fire. That way screening troops are still useful, even if
> they do not belong to the same detachment that they are screening.
>
> So for example:
>
> Unit A--------Unit B---------Unit C
>
> Units B and C are both on one side, Unit A is an enemy detachment.
> Unit A cannot shoot at Unit C because it cannot see over Unit B
> (although hills could get tricky). So, effectively, Unit B acts
> as a screen for Unit C.
>
> Sound reasonable?

No it does not. I don't care what they said in the WD battle report,
unless they are explictly making a rule errata battle reports are
fluff,at best, ads for games at worst.

The Rule Book (the yellow one) states, on page 18, "Line of fire is
blocked by terrain features such as buildings, hills, woods etc but is
not blocked by other units."

The words friendly and hostile are NOT in the rules, just "other
units".
For what it is worth, most modern micro armor games do it the other way,
in that YOUR units block line of fire, but enemey units don't. This is
more or less based on the "avoid Friendly fire" effect.
Received on Thu May 01 1997 - 19:14:18 UTC