Eagle4ty
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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?
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?