Since the subject of assaulters getting a free ride into HTH has come up,
I'll throw out and Idea I've been toying with...


Covering Fire


<italic>"This is Colonel Graff.  Second Armor detachment, you are to keep
a bead on the Eldar falcons on the flank.  If they move, tear them up!"

</italic>

A Detachment may declare "Covering Fire," representing the detachment
watching a target area or detachment and firing on them while they move. 
Use the Special Orders side of the Orders die to represent a detachment
on Covering Fire.  


A Detachment on Covering Fire may choose to fire their weapons at any
time during either the Movement or Assault phase, interrupting the
movement of the opponent's detachment if desired.  The firing detachment
fires as if it were firing on normal orders, except that they shift their
firing column one to the right (ie, one worse) to represent reacting to
the target detachment's movements on the fly.  The Detachment does NOT
get to reroll misses, and must count all standard deductions for Terrain,
Cover, etc. at the point that the Covering Fire was taken.  The Target
detachment takes blast markers as normal, but need not re-test to charge
if on assault orders.  


A Detachment on Covering fire may fire only once during the entire turn,
and must fire into a single target detachment; it may not split fire
between more than one detachment.  


So waddaya think?  Is the firepower reduction (one column shifted right)
too much?


Shidara