Dash PBL?

[jacobelm]

If the 747 dashes from S5-T6 will the 447 fire at PBF or not? Does the hex spine (S6/T5) count as adjacent or not?

 

[Robin Reeve]

The unit always dashes across a road hex.
The 747 should wisely choose T5 rather than S6 to dash through.
Btw PBL doesn't exist in ASL - but I presume you meant PBF?
And the US squad is not 737 but 747.

 

[Pyth]

It's up to the American side player. He could dash thru T5 or S6, the unit is in one or the other location as it dashes and the shot's range is at one or the other location. You are never shooting at a unit ON a hexside... you are sometimes checking LOS to the hexside (snapshot) or to a vertex on a hexside but the unit is in one or the other hex.

 

[jacobelm]

Thx for replies. New player to the game so all help is appreciated.

 

[jrv]

Does the hex spine (S6/T5) count as adjacent or not?

Although in ASL units can move along hexsides, they can only do so when bypassing a woods/building obstacle [A4.3, D2.3]. Movement along the S6/T5 hexside is not possible because neither hex contains a woods/building. If not using bypass, units move from hex center to hex center like other wargames (although LOS can sometimes be traced to points other than the hex center [A6.12]).

Even when it is using bypass, a unit is always in one of the two hexes. If the particular move is unambiguous (e.g. in your picture moving along the T4/U5 hexside) the player usually won't declare the hex. Where the hex is ambiguous the player must state which one is being bypassed. The choice of hex being bypassed can affect things like range and point blank fire. A unit bypassing the R5/S5 hexside in hex R5 would be at range one from R6 and so subject to the doubling for point blank fire. A unit bypassing that same R5/S5 hexside in S5 would be at range two, and so not subject to doubling for PBF.

JR