BraveDave
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“E5.23 BEACHING: Beaching can occur freely during the boat's MPh/APh if it is declared as it enters any land/water hex containing any non-cliff shore hexside/pontoon (B6.41-.45) bridge, and is symbolized by placing the boat counter so that it straddles the water-land hexside on which it is Beached...A Beached boat and its Passengers are at the elevation level of the water, but are not in the water. Nevertheless, if attacked, a Beached boat must be attacked in the water hex by tracing a LOS to that Water Obstacle's hex center dot [EXC: OVR].”
If the hex of the water-land hexside on which a boat is beached contains a building, does an attack against it trace the LOS to the building hex or the water hex from which the boat left to be beached?
Does the boat being attacked receive any TEM from the building versus attacks against it?
Since it cost no MP to beach and no MF to unload a beached boat, passengers can just use their MF to move directly into whatever obstacle is in the beached hex without expending any MF beforehand. Is the beached boat attacked as soon as the beaching is announced with only one shot allowed?
“E5.51 NON-ORDNANCE & AREA TARGET TYPE ATTACKS vs LANDED/BEACHED BOATS: All non-ordnance attacks and Area Target Type hits vs boats on land/Beached are resolved on the ★ Vehicle line of the IFT with full FP [EXC: hits resolved using the Area Target Type still have their FP halved] and the same IFT Effects DR as would be used for any unarmored target in that Location (see 5.53).”
E5.53 SINKING: Whenever a boat counter is sunk (not just Reduced), all of its Passengers are also eliminated—unless the boat is Beached or in shallow water (defined as fordable; B21.122) in which case they undergo IFT attack normally using the same DR that sank the boat modified by the Hazardous Movement DRM…”
So does a beached boat get attacked on the ★ vehicle line along with its passengers receiving no TEM unless the boat is KIA’d in which case the passengers receive a -2DRM to the IFT effects DR?
No burning wreck possible?
“5.531 WATER LINE: The former Passengers of a Beached boat that is sunk remain in that Water Obstacle hex but are treated as if they were Infantry in a level -1 Open Ground land (not Water Obstacle) hex in every respect except that they are subject to the Hazardous Movement DRM as long as they remain Infantry in that hex. This "Water Line" existence occurs only to the former Passengers of a sunk, Beached boat, or to those who have left a boat during the MPh and directly entered a concealed enemy Location (A12.15) and are thereby returned to their Water Obstacle hex as Infantry (not to their boat as Passengers). Once these units successfully exit their Water Line position, they may not re-enter it.”
What if the water obstacle is flooded?
“B21.21 If a river is defined as flooded it is one level higher than normal (i.e., usually level 0).”
Are the units at level 0?
If the hex of the water-land hexside on which a boat is beached contains a building, does an attack against it trace the LOS to the building hex or the water hex from which the boat left to be beached?
Does the boat being attacked receive any TEM from the building versus attacks against it?
Since it cost no MP to beach and no MF to unload a beached boat, passengers can just use their MF to move directly into whatever obstacle is in the beached hex without expending any MF beforehand. Is the beached boat attacked as soon as the beaching is announced with only one shot allowed?
“E5.51 NON-ORDNANCE & AREA TARGET TYPE ATTACKS vs LANDED/BEACHED BOATS: All non-ordnance attacks and Area Target Type hits vs boats on land/Beached are resolved on the ★ Vehicle line of the IFT with full FP [EXC: hits resolved using the Area Target Type still have their FP halved] and the same IFT Effects DR as would be used for any unarmored target in that Location (see 5.53).”
E5.53 SINKING: Whenever a boat counter is sunk (not just Reduced), all of its Passengers are also eliminated—unless the boat is Beached or in shallow water (defined as fordable; B21.122) in which case they undergo IFT attack normally using the same DR that sank the boat modified by the Hazardous Movement DRM…”
So does a beached boat get attacked on the ★ vehicle line along with its passengers receiving no TEM unless the boat is KIA’d in which case the passengers receive a -2DRM to the IFT effects DR?
No burning wreck possible?
“5.531 WATER LINE: The former Passengers of a Beached boat that is sunk remain in that Water Obstacle hex but are treated as if they were Infantry in a level -1 Open Ground land (not Water Obstacle) hex in every respect except that they are subject to the Hazardous Movement DRM as long as they remain Infantry in that hex. This "Water Line" existence occurs only to the former Passengers of a sunk, Beached boat, or to those who have left a boat during the MPh and directly entered a concealed enemy Location (A12.15) and are thereby returned to their Water Obstacle hex as Infantry (not to their boat as Passengers). Once these units successfully exit their Water Line position, they may not re-enter it.”
What if the water obstacle is flooded?
“B21.21 If a river is defined as flooded it is one level higher than normal (i.e., usually level 0).”
Are the units at level 0?