Cult.44
Senior Member
Here's a situation from yesterday's game with Curtis Brooks (FrF98 Amerikanskaya Suka):
In my MPh, I drive a T-34/85 around and stop for a rear shot against one of Curtis' Panthers. Curtis changes the Panther's VCA and fires his bow MG with a +4 DRM for the spin (no effect). In the subsequent DFPh, he fires the MA and doesn't factor in the DRM for the spin. I was thinking it would carry over but he and Tom Yetter convinced me that, because it was a different phase, the DRM didn't apply. Curtis missed his shot so it was moot point anyway.
When I got home, I wanted to see if I could validate in the rules that we played it correctly. I found this:
From D3.5: " ... if any weapon is fired from a vehicle, the remaining weapons must fire in the same phase or forfeit their non-CC fire attack opportunity for that Player Turn ..."
This makes it seem like if a tank fires its MG in the opponent's movement phase but doesn't fire the MA, the MA cannot fire in the subsequent DFPh.
But maybe the movement phase and defensive fire phase are a special case (earlier rules do talk about first fire and final fire going against the general rule of not firing in multiple phases) and the prohibition does't apply. But if that's true, wouldn't the CA change penalty carry over to the DFPh?
I'm hoping someone can ease my troubled mind.
In my MPh, I drive a T-34/85 around and stop for a rear shot against one of Curtis' Panthers. Curtis changes the Panther's VCA and fires his bow MG with a +4 DRM for the spin (no effect). In the subsequent DFPh, he fires the MA and doesn't factor in the DRM for the spin. I was thinking it would carry over but he and Tom Yetter convinced me that, because it was a different phase, the DRM didn't apply. Curtis missed his shot so it was moot point anyway.
When I got home, I wanted to see if I could validate in the rules that we played it correctly. I found this:
From D3.5: " ... if any weapon is fired from a vehicle, the remaining weapons must fire in the same phase or forfeit their non-CC fire attack opportunity for that Player Turn ..."
This makes it seem like if a tank fires its MG in the opponent's movement phase but doesn't fire the MA, the MA cannot fire in the subsequent DFPh.
But maybe the movement phase and defensive fire phase are a special case (earlier rules do talk about first fire and final fire going against the general rule of not firing in multiple phases) and the prohibition does't apply. But if that's true, wouldn't the CA change penalty carry over to the DFPh?
I'm hoping someone can ease my troubled mind.