GeorgeBates
Elder Member
Per B23.41, only a fully-tracked CT, BU AFV without riders could end its MPh in 8AA1, 5I9 or other such hexes without using VBM. A CT BU AFV that did so would have to take a Bog Check DR and risk landing in the cellar. If not in the cellar, then it will receive the +2 TEM in the DFPh. Addendum: After entering the hex via the road, in order to be able end its MPh in the hex, such an AFV would also have to have half its MP remaining.What happens if a vehicle uses road movement rate to enter the hex and ends its MPh there: does it receive building TEM? Is it in the LOS of a viewer "on the opposite side" of the building from it? I don't know how to answer those questions.
Any other vehicle entering the hex using the road movement rate would have to have enough MP to leave the hex, or it could not enter.
LOS will be drawn to the center dot in all cases except VBM or a snap shot. Look for obstacles/hindrances between the viewer/firer and the center dot (the second A4.132 example makes this clear).
Board 8 has existed since GI: Anvil of Victory (and board 5 is of even earlier vintage), so it is unlikely the ASL authors did not consider the implications of roads in building hexes when they wrote A4.132 and B3.3.
If anyone has doubts, put a list of Yes/No questions in an e-mail to ASL Q&A, and we'll all know the answer when we get a Perry sez. Until then, make sure that opponents have the same understanding of how these hexes should be played, and be emotionally prepared for the Q&A reply to tell us that we have it wrong.
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