Minefields Attacks - Cowering

[Joe Moro]

Just a quick confirmation as i cant find it in RB.

No cowering for minefield attacks..right?

 

[SSlunt]

B28 ...minefield must be constructed with a strength of 6, 8, or 12 factors and is not reduced in strength due to the resolution of an attack by that minefield. (So Minefields are not effected by a roll of doubles)

 

[Eagle4ty]

Just a quick confirmation as i cant find it in RB.

No cowering for minefield attacks..right?

There is no FP modifier to a minefield attack (B28.3).

 

[Joe Moro]

Thanks guys, but what about A7.9. Minefields attacks are not listed as cowering exceptions. is this list "definitive" or just an example of what attacks are not susceptible to cowering.

What do you guys think?

 

[SSlunt]

Same reason that the Minefield attack in not tripled for point blank fire.
I repeat the rule: not reduced in strength due to the resolution of an attack by that minefield.

 

[Robin Reeve]

I would not contest a slight modification of the definition of cowering (e.g. that it is about a unit's IFT attack), even though it never occurred to me that a Minefield could cower...

 

[Larry]

I was once asked if my units cowered. I responded, "mine do."

 

[Jazz]

What do you guys think?

What we or anybody else thinks about it (other than Perry and mayhaps Klas) has no bearing whatsoever. What the rule says is what matters and that rule says it is not changed (reduced or increased).

 

[Old Noob]

Minefields do not cower. They either go off when somebody steps on one or they don't go off {meaning somebody put his feet down
in the empty spaces between the mines}.

Refer to the scene in "Kelly's Heroes" where our infantry heroes find themselves in a minefield.