A8.2 (RFP) and IFT Attacks vs armored units with no vulnerable PRC.

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Reading the latest "Perry Says" with regards to MOL and incumbent IFT attacks against an AFV this piqued my interest:
QUESTION #4: If the answers to Q1 & Q3 are yes - is the IFP of the squad halved as if conducting an attack vs a Concealed unit for RFP purposes?

A. If no non-armored unit was subject to the Small Arms attack, the RFP would be halved.


Does this mean if an IFT attack is conducted against an AFV with no vulnerable PRC the Residual Firepower Power normally placed is halved?

It has been my experience over the years this is simply not the case. Many (if not all) the players I've come across regularly fire at an AFV in an adjacent hex to leave full RFP to dissuade follow-on infantry from using that hex(es) to move adjacent to the friendly unit for the upcoming APh and then move into CC. The answer given above seems to imply that the RFP should have been halved all along because there was no vulnerable PRC to be attacked. Is that the case?
 

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The Q&A is specific to a MOL AFV attack, and answers the case when there is no unit at all present that is attacked beyond the AFV. Akin to a FF attack using Spraying Fire vs two hexes of which only one has a moving unit.
I understand, but by that very explanation, an IFT attack against a BU AFV with no Infantry (or other vulnerable PRC) in the Location would meet that criterion as well. The target of the IFT is by default the AFV in both case; I just fail to see the difference here. Perhaps I've been playing an IFT attack vs a CE AFV with attendant infantry using Armored Assault wrong. I always thought the FP directed against those targets was the full FP exerted against the location at both the infantry and the CE AFV. It seems as if it must be treated as spraying fire based upon your response, am I correct?
 

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It seems odd that a unit that successfully rolls for a MOL but fails to destroy the AFV target will place less residual FP than if it just made exactly the same inherent FP attack without the MOL. Means that there is a disincentive to trying to use the MOL in the first place.
 

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It seems odd that a unit that successfully rolls for a MOL but fails to destroy the AFV target will place less residual FP than if it just made exactly the same inherent FP attack without the MOL. Means that there is a disincentive to trying to use the MOL in the first place.
How the hell is that even interpreted from the rules??
With no kill vs the vehicle the MOL attack FP is still added to the SCA.
 
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I understand, but by that very explanation, an IFT attack against a BU AFV with no Infantry (or other vulnerable PRC) in the Location would meet that criterion as well.
Don't think so - since in that case there is a unit that's being fired upon. The Q&A is only for the situation of a MOL attack vs an AFV.
 
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I can understand the MOL IFT part of the attack not having any RFP (or reduced-but that's not the case), but the Inherent IFT FP of the attacking unit is the same whether applied as part of a MOL attack or simply directed at the AFV or even if directed at an AFV with Armored Assaulting Infantry. The response simply doesn't make sense, realistically, logically, or rule wise IMHO.
 

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I can see @klasmalmstrom's point -- for the IFT at only a BU AFV, that attack is made against something. On the other hand, the IFT attack with the MOL TK attack is "extra" and has no target -- like the empty hex in the spraying fire example mentioned.
 

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I am going to take a second look at this Q&A.....I might have found something.....stay tuned....
 

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I can see @klasmalmstrom's point -- for the IFT at only a BU AFV, that attack is made against something. On the other hand, the IFT attack with the MOL TK attack is "extra" and has no target -- like the empty hex in the spraying fire example mentioned.
Yet it has effect vs PRC? when the Tank was the target?

Maybe one of those...doesn't happen that often concepts
 

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Link to the (amended) original Perry Sez: Perry Sez on MOLs and AFVs.

EDIT: My bad: the link is to the original Perry Sez. According to the link Doug gave just above, the full new answer to question four is "No."
 
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