On Fri 27 Jun, Sean Smith wrote:
> Just a quick comment about flak. Has anybody taken note
> of the fact that if you put your two flak units 30 cm apart
> and 30cm away from you board edge you creat a 30cm box which
> fliers can't enter without being shoot at. Because if
> they enter the section of your board edge directly behind
> the flak units, they can be shoot at by your flak.
>
> Some players may argue that this is a bit cheesy, however I
> argue this is fair. As it is likely that you will have off board
> AA to the rear of your army and while not perfect, this
> represents the existence of this AA.
>
> This fact is of particular importance to armies that have
> artillery or have lots of troop transports. For example
> in two different games I have played recently I have caught
> an unweary Ork and spacemarine player off guard by using my
> airpower shoot up their troop transports in the first turn,
> before they got to move, hereby forcing their troops to
> walk across the battlefield. Which was just perfect for my
> artillery and heavy weapon troops.
>
An amendment to the adove, if the two flak units are say 20cm
away from from your board edge and 50cm apart you creat a 50cm
box by 20cm box which fliers with a 30cm can't enter without
being shoot at. A diagram is below.
* = Flak units
50cm
* ----------- *
| |20cm
| |
--------------------------------------------------your board
edge
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Received on Thu Jun 26 1997 - 22:26:54 UTC