Bocage, wall advantage and firelanes

[Richard Weiley]

It's the opponent's movement phase and a friendly squad, MMG, and leader occupying a building have claimed voluntary wall advantage over a bocage hexside of that hex. The units first fire and the MMG lays a firelane through the bocage hexside. Later in the movement phase an enemy vehicle moves to a position where it can bounding first fire at the MMG stack across a non bocage hexside. The MMG stack wants to drop wall advantage to gain the protection of the building, can it do so? If it can, what happens to the firelane now that the units no longer has LOS to the firelane marker?

 

[Brian W]

LOS to the firelane marker is not required. The firelane still exists, but residual is only exerted against locations in LOS.

 

[sfcmikej]

I believe that Brian is correct. Remember though that the last sentence of A9.322 says: "Claiming/forfeiting WA can never be done between an enemy action being declared and that action being completed, e.g., fire vs the unit claiming WA. "

So do it before he declares a shot.

Mike

 

[Richard Weiley]

Thanks Brian, so as per A9.22 "where the firepower is exerted in the unit's LOS and the second dot point of B9.521 where a unit without WA over a Bocage hexside sees into the adjacent hex and no further - the firelane is only effective into the adjacent hex.

 

[Brian W]

And lest we forget, Firelane Resid is doubled for PBF. So, the resid in that one hex is actually 4fp, not 2fp.