Wayne
Doing Plenty, Kinda Slow
Once upon a time the now-allowed tactic I describe below was disallowed (under 1eASLRB) -- but 2eASLRB deleted a key line (A7.531, then-last sentence) such that the rules now do allow this:I would be interested in the nuances you referred to of AFPh Opportunity Fire if you can recall them.
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In the PFPh, mark a ROF-weapon (maybe more than one, if so blessed) for OpFire.
As your game turn unfolds and the battlefield situation develops, use your MPh to maneuver your best still-available fire-direction Leader to stack with your OpFire-marked ROF weapon most likely to inflict greatest hurt on the enemy during your AFPh.
Per desire, fire that weapon with leader direction benefit again and again in your AFPh for as long as ROF (and chaos) allows.
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Rule evolution history...
NB: units not marked OpFire may fire only once in the AFPh:
eASLRB said:A7.25 ...An Opportunity Firer is the only unit that can use a Multiple ROF or Intensive Fire during the AFPh.[fn10]
As rationale ASLRB Chap A Footnote 10 said:(and says still) A7.25 OPPORTUNITY FIRE: Although Opportunity Fire is executed during the AFPh it is considered a form of Prep Fire and therefore not subject to AFPh penalties, because the units so assigned are assumed to be “firing” or alert for fire opportunities since the PFPh when they were designated as Opportunity Firers. Only the mechanics of that fire have been changed by allowing them to pick their targets during the AFPh so as to be able to fire more effectively at recently discovered enemy units...
Under 1eASLRB, a leader not marked for OpFire could not, in the AFPh, direct more than one shot from a ROF weapon (because fire-directng leaders were then units "treated as ... firing" and prevented by A7.25 from "using" Multiple ROF in the AFPh unless marked for OpFire).Long ago 1eASLRB A7.531 last sentence said:A SMC directing fire is treated as if he were firing.
I.e., under 1eASLRB, if the OpFire-marked weapon maintained ROF =it= could fire again but without fire-direction from the (unmarked) leader (since, per rationale in the footnote, that leader counter -- not marked for OpFire in the PFPh -- had not been “firing” or alert for fire opportunities since the PFPh.)
[Conceptually, that late-arriving leader would be directing kinda the last shot, but given we never know whether or not the first shot is also the last, 1eASLRB allowed direction in this case re the first shot (only).]
Come 2eASLRB, that A7.531 last sentence was deleted, thus allowing the practice of maneuvering a non-OpFire leader to link up with and direct all of the AFPh ROF of a weapon in the AFPh as though he'd been there (and marked) since the PFPh.
[=I= thought that rule change was a poor call, but other opinions prevailed, and today under 2eASLRB the tactic is allowed.]
Use it to advantage if you can.