antony.marsh
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In SME can an AFV pass through a Bocage Gap? I suspect it can. I’m just not totally sure as B9.4 mentions roads. Cheers
Thanks chaps. Thought as much.B9.54:
"9.54 MOVEMENT: To cross a bocage hexside costs Infantry two MF plus COT. No other unit may cross a bocage hexside except a fully-tracked AFV. An AFV crossing a bocage hexside cannot use Reverse-movement/carry-Riders, and is subject to Underbelly Hits, loss of Schuerzen (D11.2), and Bog (in the hex being exited), as it crosses the bocage hexside [EXC to all: if crossing via an obvious gap (9.4) or existing Breach (9.541)]."
B9.4:
"Some wall/hedge hexsides such as 6W9-X9 have obvious gaps in them which can be crossed without paying the wall/hedge MF/MP penalty (by using the road if one exists)."
The "by using the road if one exists" part just means that if there is a road, then the road must be used when crossing the hexside....not that a road must be present.
Perry didn’t say they were breaches. He did say units can pass through them without paying a penalty.Someone at WO asked the same question of The Oracle (Perry). He pronounced they were breaches (B9.541)
The brown outlining of Bocage was not an MMP official map designation to illustrate Bocage IIRC. I believe it was introduced by HoB or BFP, or perhaps even VASL as a way to denote Bocage.As an aside. Will the gaps have the dirt on them as the actual maps and will the VASL hedges actually just be BOCAGE? seems pointless to display as hedges as it's a HASL map.
Terrain Transformation? Uh......
It's a HASL, why not simple add it on the HASL map?The brown outlining of Bocage was not an MMP official map designation to illustrate Bocage IIRC. I believe it was introduced by HoB or BFP, or perhaps even VASL as a way to denote Bocage.
[So they can reissue it years later w/the bocage art fixed and sell it to me again. ]It's a HASL, why not simple add it on the HASL map?
And its BORING and blends in.I don't understand what's wrong with it. Isn't all hedge on the map treated as bocage? What needs fixed about it? There is no special bocage artwork - it's just hedge artwork.