Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Can't believe I can't find this, but what happens to Passengers/Riders if their vehicle is eliminated while spending the MP to Unload them?
Fate of Passengers/Riders if the vehicle is elminated when unloading?
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EagleIV
Elder Member
It depends on the type of attack. If it was VTT attack, nothing happens to the now Infantry. If it was on the IFT (possibly after a ATT hit), the former passengers (now Infantry) would most likely be effected by the same attack as Infantry and be taking a MC (someone might find a situation where the Infantry are missed on the IFT, but a truck is killed.)
Jazz
Inactive
I think it's kinda like placing smoke? DFire at a MP/MF expenditure happens after all results of that expenditure happen. Shooting VTT the infantry are out of the vehicle and good to go. ATT might be another issue?
apbills
Elder Member
In A8.11 "Once the ATTACKER announces that he is unloading Passengers, it is too late for the DEFENDER to announce an attack on the vehicle with its Passengers/Riders still loaded - even if the disembarking declaration is the first MP/MF expenditure of the MPh."
Adding a reference to previous answers.
Adding a reference to previous answers.
Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
apbills
Elder Member
It is in a strange location, being the paragraph is "8.11 FACING: " I had to look for it.
Wayne
Doing Plenty, Kinda Slow
It is odd. Perhaps the thinking was, It's an Infantry rule, so, goes in chap A ?
[I looked for a chap D cross-ref to it, but didn't find one.]
apbills
Elder Member
It is in the Defensive Fire section, which makes sense, but the paragraph title does not give you a feeling that it is covered in there. It's almost like there was no other spot, and they didn't want an 8.111
Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Does the answer change if I really, really, want it to be different?
apbills
Elder Member
You're better off as is. Will prevent you from trying to decide if they get hit by RFP after a survival roll.
Tuomo
Keeper of the Funk
Yeah, that was the way my Desperate Brain was thinking - like this might be like placing a DC, where I could intervene at the MF/MP expenditure and stop it from happening. But no.
Are there other DC-like situations?
Jazz
Inactive
Grasping at straws only leads to disappointment and will get you nowhere. Stand up and take your licks like a man......
The DC thing is the exception here. Any other exceptions need to be explicitly called out in the rulz. Can't think of any other specific examples, but if there are you will read about it in the rulz.