WaterRabbit said:
Could you show us in the rules where this distinction is actually made?
I think I already did, but I can do again:
D9.3 says:
"Fire traced through a wall/hedge hexside or hexspine may be subject to a TEM for that wall/hedge if the target is in the Location formed by that hexside/hexspine."
As written above, "to" is not the same as "through".
If an Infantry unit was crossing that vertex it would receive the wall TEM (see example A4.34 LOF from C7 to D4-C5-D5 receives the wall TEM).
Well, that is
not a similar example. The A4.34 example you refer to, would be similar to LOS from O5 to the CAFP, if there was a wall along the Q6/R5 hexside, or LOS from Q6 if there was a wall along the Q5/R5 hexside. I.e. one of the two hexsides
of the unit's own hex contains the wall.
In our example, this is not true - it is a
hexspine that contains the wall.
A similar situation from the A4.34 example would be if C5 was bypassable. Would the LOF from C7 to D4/C5/D5 still receive wall TEM?
To be honest, I think the A4.34 example says something else that D9.3 does. D9.3 is (pretty) clear, while A4.45 is clear with those specific examples it lists, but is of little help in general. To go back to our original example:
If I got it correct, You think that LOS to the Q5/Q6/R5 CAFP will receive wall TEM from O5 and even Q5. I guess you think that "through" in D9.3 can be understood as "to/through". That's fair, given the A4.34 examples.
However, that's very problematic, as that would give wall TEM to the CAFP from
every hex, including R4, R5, R6 and Q6. Now that's bogus.