Pyth
Senior Member
Here's the full text of 9.34
9.34 INDIRECT FIRE: The TEM of a wall/hedge hexside is lowered by one for Indirect Fire, but this TEM applies (irrespective of WA) even if that hexside is not crossed by the incoming fire. Only one wall/hedge TEM can be applied to the resolution of such fire, regardless of the number of such features present in the target hex. A hedge TEM reduced thusly to zero would still negate FFMO/Interdiction for a mortar whose LOF enters the hex via the hedge hexside. A target is never HD (D4.2) to Indirect Fire. If in a woods hex, Air Bursts (13.3) applies even if the unit has WA (but is combined with wall TEM if applicable).
The bolded parts represent concepts that, for me at least, do not play well together. The second bolded part seems to contradict the first and suggest that LOF must cross the hexside to impact FFMO negation (despite TEM being independent of the LOF crossing the hexside) So let me see if I have this right:
The +0 hedge TEM -- which all agree affects the whole hex equally (ineffectively), independent of the hexside being crossed -- Negates FFMO when the hexside is crossed, but not when the ineffective hexside is not crossed!? So crossing an ineffective hexside negates FFMO.
BUT if it's a wall, the hexside is effective in all cases. A +1 TEM is applied in all cases. An effective TEM always negates FFMO, in all cases.
Comments. (This rule broke my mind.)
9.34 INDIRECT FIRE: The TEM of a wall/hedge hexside is lowered by one for Indirect Fire, but this TEM applies (irrespective of WA) even if that hexside is not crossed by the incoming fire. Only one wall/hedge TEM can be applied to the resolution of such fire, regardless of the number of such features present in the target hex. A hedge TEM reduced thusly to zero would still negate FFMO/Interdiction for a mortar whose LOF enters the hex via the hedge hexside. A target is never HD (D4.2) to Indirect Fire. If in a woods hex, Air Bursts (13.3) applies even if the unit has WA (but is combined with wall TEM if applicable).
The bolded parts represent concepts that, for me at least, do not play well together. The second bolded part seems to contradict the first and suggest that LOF must cross the hexside to impact FFMO negation (despite TEM being independent of the LOF crossing the hexside) So let me see if I have this right:
The +0 hedge TEM -- which all agree affects the whole hex equally (ineffectively), independent of the hexside being crossed -- Negates FFMO when the hexside is crossed, but not when the ineffective hexside is not crossed!? So crossing an ineffective hexside negates FFMO.
BUT if it's a wall, the hexside is effective in all cases. A +1 TEM is applied in all cases. An effective TEM always negates FFMO, in all cases.
Comments. (This rule broke my mind.)