Doug Leslie
Elder Member
If you check the OVR flowchart in the box relating to "Staying in the Location" it states that, when a vehicle remains in the hex, all units are marked by a CC counter and are bound by TPBF. It is difficult to see what difference it makes if the vehicle moves off after depositing its passenger as the principle must logically remain the same. The sequence would therefore be that the crew would firstly have to use TPBF against the dismounting HS and jeep (or use the ITT to fire the gun at the HS and probably the jeep if HE is used).The question I have is whether being marked with a CC counter prevents use of non-CC Reaction Fire in general. A4.7 clearly says that being marked with a CC counter prevents Advance. D7.21 says, "After completing {the CC-RF attack}, that DEFENDER and all of its possessed SW (including those inherent) and Guns are marked with a CC counter, if the vehicle has survived, to prohibit non-CC Reaction Fire attacks." What is not clear is whether this prohibition applies only if the unit acquired its CC counter making a CC-RF attack, or if it applies more generally to any unit marked with a CC counter, no matter how the CC counter was acquired. For instance a crew manning a concealed Gun lets a jeep unload halfsquad in its hex. Per D6.5 a CC counter is placed. There are two aspects. First, does the CC counter apply to the gun/crew in addition to the halfsquad, or only to the halfsquad? If the CC counter does apply to the gun/crew, is it now prohibited from using non-CC RF?
JR
Thereafter, assuming that the HS is not KIA, a CC counter is placed and rule D7.22 applies which stipulates that non-CC reaction fire can only be performed by an unbroken DEFENDER in an OVR location and not beneath a CC/Melee counter. It therefore appears that the crew cannot use non-CC reaction fire if an OVR subsequently occurs. I think that it can however use OVR prevention because C5.64 makes no mention of any prohibition on a unit covered by a CC counter doing this.