Philippe D.
Elder Member
It all depends on what your real goal is, and what threats you can use. Sometimes you'll have your FT three hexes from your target, and manage to move less threatening units adjacent safely because the threat of the FT moving just into long range is strong enough; and sometimes it will be a better move to have the FT move adjacent [often under some additional cover] so as to draw a lot of fire and then make it possible for other units to close in.I'm rather of the opinion overall that he best method of attack for a FT toting infantry unit is to assault move out of LOS 1 location from being in LOS and <=2 hexes from a key enemy position, then never move him again. If the enemy takes the bait and holds his fire, no attack DR is ever made and the FT never depletes, while you run circles around his position with everything else. If he shoots at something else moving by, you move the FT up and then zap him with a FT attack DR.
And then, some players are pessimists, and will always assume they'll X out the FT as soon as they fire it; those will tend to keep it as a threat for longer, because not firing it often means not malfunctioning it