Hubbs5
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If two hero's are stacked together with a HMG can they fire it normally with a -2 DRM?
Crew the MG with a hero and a 9-2 or a 10-3 for some real excitement. -- jimIf two hero's are stacked together with a HMG can they fire it normally with a -2 DRM?
Yeah did that once during a Code of Bushido playtest years ago -with a 10-2 and 2 generated heroes manning a .50 cal as I recall. KIA'd an entire company of Japanese trying to pile into the open out of a cave complex, their last ditch effort to win the scenario. It was epic.Crew the MG with a hero and a 9-2 or a 10-3 for some real excitement. -- jim
As per A9.12, "If a Leader fires/uses a SW-MG/any-other-SW (either singly or in combination with another SMC), he loses any leadership he may have otherwise exerted during that fire phase, but the SW is exempt from Cowering.".Crew the MG with a hero and a 9-2 or a 10-3 for some real excitement. -- jim
Well a Hero probably has a higher morale than a HS/Crew - on the other hand a HS/Crew can lay down a Fire Lane and use Subsequent First Fire.As per A9.12, "If a Leader fires/uses a SW-MG/any-other-SW (either singly or in combination with another SMC), he loses any leadership he may have otherwise exerted during that fire phase, but the SW is exempt from Cowering.".
Add in A15.23, a single hero fires a SW as if manned by 2 SMC but with a + 1 DRM. If within normal range his Heroic -1 DRM also applies giving a nett 0 DRM.
Assume a Hero and a 9-2 Leader
Hero+leader firing: DRM = -1 heroic but no leader DRM, nett DRM = -1
Hero fires, 9-2 directs: DRM = 0 (-1+1) heroic DRM, leader -2, nett DRM = -2 (no better than HS or Crew manning)
I was really only concerned with output, but you're right about Heroes having greater resilience.Well a Hero probably has a higher morale than a HS/Crew - on the other hand a HS/Crew can lay down a Fire Lane and use Subsequent First Fire.
A single SMC manning a MG can't use SFF since it can't use Sustained Fire.I was really only concerned with output, but you're right about Heroes having greater resilience.
Infantry can use both Subsequent First Fire (A8.3) and Fire Lanes (A9.22) and Infantry is defined as all SMC and MMC on foot (Index), not Cavalry or PRC.
So unless I am ignorant of some errata, missed some rules clause or Q&A then SMC can do both. But I could well be wrong.
OK, thanks for the A9.3 correction. While that nobbles the single Hero for SFF, the double Hero is unaffected. Not that it is too much of a consideration as I usually break SFF MG.A single SMC manning a MG can't use SFF since it can't use Sustained Fire.
A9.3:
"...Sustained Fire cannot be used by a vehicular MG [EXC: MA, as per 8.4], nor if firing as ordnance, nor by a MG fired by a lone SMC...."
And there is Q&A (and Tips From The Trenches, IIRC) to the effect that a Hero alone manning a MG can't lay down a Fire Lane.
It is an older one.OK, thanks for the A9.3 correction. While that nobbles the single Hero for SFF, the double Hero is unaffected. Not that it is too much of a consideration as I usually break SFF MG.
I had a search through your most recently published Perry Sez Q&A (V 23) looking for every occurrence of "hero" and could not find any mention of hero and fire lanes.
If you are not downloading the "Combined ASL Q&A file consisting of the Perry Sez from GameSquad file and the two Scott Romanowski files", that is the file you should be using. It has the q&a that Klas quoted.ASLML is not something I ever accessed.
J11, I have.