Steed
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OK. We're playing Tanks Attack and in the process of re-reading Stop And Go Traffic I've noticed several things we've been doing wrong concerning vehicles - not a big deal as I was expecting that.
But it's got me rethinking my understanding of other rules and I want to make sure I'm getting some of this right. So this situation came up Friday night...
Germans are Friendly/Soviets are Enemy.
The tank gets a move command ( it was in Motion from the previous turn ) in the Enemy PF phase. In the movement phase we roll a 5 which starts with -
"If no Known Target exists, move along road toward FBE; otherwise REH as necessary. ...."
Looking up the definition of a Target it says -
"Target: An in-LOS, non-HIP FRIENDLY unit (non-abandoned if vehicular) or Gun that is within (long) range of an ENEMY unit that can be affected by any non-CH attack from that ENEMY unit/its functioning possessed-Weapon. The range of the ENEMY unit can be extended by any manned, functioning Weapon possessed by/carried onboard by that unit. ..."
The tank can see the German concealed HS but it's to hit modifiers (+4 {C} +1 {BU} +2 {Concealed Target} +1 {Woods} = +8 ) make it impossible to hit and the IFE equivalent of 4 would be halved 3 times ( moving, bounding, and concealed )making it less than 1. Since the German HS can't be hit or affected by the IFEE, we thought the concealed German HS is not a target so the tank should move (REH in this case) and played it that way. Is this correct?
In the past we would have turned the tank, stopped, taken the shot to gain an acquisition marker and waited for a better shot in the Enemy DF phase. But after rereading the definition of target I don't think that it is right.
Thanks.
But it's got me rethinking my understanding of other rules and I want to make sure I'm getting some of this right. So this situation came up Friday night...
Germans are Friendly/Soviets are Enemy.
The tank gets a move command ( it was in Motion from the previous turn ) in the Enemy PF phase. In the movement phase we roll a 5 which starts with -
"If no Known Target exists, move along road toward FBE; otherwise REH as necessary. ...."
Looking up the definition of a Target it says -
"Target: An in-LOS, non-HIP FRIENDLY unit (non-abandoned if vehicular) or Gun that is within (long) range of an ENEMY unit that can be affected by any non-CH attack from that ENEMY unit/its functioning possessed-Weapon. The range of the ENEMY unit can be extended by any manned, functioning Weapon possessed by/carried onboard by that unit. ..."
The tank can see the German concealed HS but it's to hit modifiers (+4 {C} +1 {BU} +2 {Concealed Target} +1 {Woods} = +8 ) make it impossible to hit and the IFE equivalent of 4 would be halved 3 times ( moving, bounding, and concealed )making it less than 1. Since the German HS can't be hit or affected by the IFEE, we thought the concealed German HS is not a target so the tank should move (REH in this case) and played it that way. Is this correct?
In the past we would have turned the tank, stopped, taken the shot to gain an acquisition marker and waited for a better shot in the Enemy DF phase. But after rereading the definition of target I don't think that it is right.
Thanks.