WO5 Astride Hell's Highway VC

[sfcmikej]

Hey All,

I am wondering what the interpretation of these VC are:

The Germans win at the end of Game Turn 5 by Controlling buildings 63T5 and 63S6 or at game end if they can place 20 FP factors (TPBF/PBF/Area Fire/SMOKE hindrances are NA) from infantry MMC and manned, functioning MG's (only) on road hexes 63Q9-S8-Y5-GG6.

Most of that is clear to me except the part in parenthesis. TBF and PBF seems to mean that I don't get the doubled/tripled firepower in calculating for VC. Smoke hindrance NA seems to mean that 6+ smoke hindrance and I can still count that firepower. I am confused by the Area Fire NA though. Does that mean that if I am at long range I don't halve it or I can't count it? Or is long range fire not really area fire like shooting at concealed units so it would be halved and counted?

What say you?

Mike

 

[jrv]

Although both long-range FP and Area Fire halve the FP of the unit, long-range fire is not an instance of an Area Fire penalty [A7.22, A7.23]. The FP counted toward the VC would not be halved for not having a unit in the Location ("concealed target") nor for firing from a marsh or stream, but would be halved for VC purposes for long-range fire. Not all things that halve the FP are Area Fire penalties (another example: Mounted Fire [D6.1] is not an Area Fire penalty).

JR

 

[sfcmikej]

Cool JR, that is in line with what I was thinking

Mike