Pyth
Senior Member
I'm hoping to start something a little bit like "One Thing About...." -- a useful collection of information that isn't always at the ready. I have this bad (good?) habit of double-checking and second guessing myself on rules I already know, looking things up and rereading the entry, "just to make sure" (and every now and then it's, "oh shizzle I've been playing it wrong..."). Doing this I time and again I find myself looking for a rule I know exists but can't seem to find. It's usually buried in a non-intuitive cross reference. Sometimes it isn't indexed or cross referenced at all. A10.5 Routing for example contains a call out to [EXC: Surrender:20.21] and that EXC contains essential routing logic. I've got that EXC circled and "Surrender 20.21 is part of rout logic" noted in the margins of the RB. When I'm double-checking (for the 10 millionth time) the Routing rules I want to make sure I'm using 20.21. (God help me I don't want to have to wade into the comprehensive example!) That's an essential Xref, but at least it's there in the RB. The one's that REALLY hang me up are the Xrefs that don't exist at all. Here's a rule everyone knows: Leaders and heroes are elite. No, I shouldn't need to look that up.... but I want to... so where is that in the rule book? Ok I realize +50% of this forum already knows and is thinking "except Partisans!" but pretend you don't the answer: it's not in Leadership. It's not in Elite it's not in Heroes and it's not in the index at all, not even under the correct subject header in the index. The rule of course is found in A1.11 SMC. Would it really have been too much trouble to say, in the hero rules, "Like leaders, heroes are elite status"? Yes. Yes it would. But it would not have been too much trouble for 15.2 Heroes to say: A hero is represented by a SMC [1.11] with a Strength factor 1-4-9."then at least there's a chance of going to SMC to find the rule (But, alas, the Xref isn't there.)
I feel like the essential xrefs are fairly common. The missing cross-refs (a debatable category I admit) a good bit rarer... but does anyone have any other examples of rules that for whatever reason seem exceptionally hard to look-up?
I feel like the essential xrefs are fairly common. The missing cross-refs (a debatable category I admit) a good bit rarer... but does anyone have any other examples of rules that for whatever reason seem exceptionally hard to look-up?