Friday 10 February 2012

Rules - You may fire when ready

You have another target? A military target?

Long Fangs are brilliant. Their ability to fire at multiple targets makes them one of the best Heavy Support choices in the whole game. During a game the other week, Mick declared that two of his Long Fangs were targetting one of my Rhinos while the other two were targetting another squad. I asked him which two because I would get a cover save from two of the rocket toting guys but not from the other two. He said that it didn't matter because a majority of the squad (two Long Fangs & the Pack Leader) had an unobscruted view.

So, the question is this - when splitting fire do you treat the Long Fangs as two separate squads that just happen to be firing simultaneously or one squad firing at two targets?

3 comments:

  1. I guess by the wording of your question, I treat them as 2 squads firing simultaneously.  More specifically, I look at each individual model and the LOS from it.  I always state which models are firing at what, in order to avoid any kind of cover debate.

    I never really considered doing it the other way.

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  2. In my opinion you have to say what fires at what because of cover. The rules say something about cover being determined from the models firing.

    Technically I think you can choose to only fire with certain models from any squad so that your opponent won't get a cover save.

    Doubt there's a hard and fast ruling but I've always done it your way and not Mick's with my long fangs.

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  3. I agree with this. Everything in 40K is true line of sight, no getting around it, so you'd have to say which is gong where by model.

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