[Kodiak]

“To repeat what was said earlier, the answer is simple – game balance (it stops you poking one guy out with say a rifle to put a pin on a unit while keeping the rest untouchable.) and to help (as the rulebook says it the same paragraph) give the impression that everything /model is fluid and in motion…”

Thats pretty silly (simple all right).  Then everyone behind cover should be able to shoot as, “everything/model is fluid and in motion…”

“poking one guy out with say a rifle to put a pin on a unit while keeping the rest untouchable”   That would seem a pretty viable way to do things in reality (and he can be shot) as opposed to saying everyone is running around out of hard cover to get shot like chickens with their heads cut off.

[Kodiak]

It seems like a pretty easy fix would be WYSIWYG and you can only hit what you can see.  Only those that can see a target can shoot at so the reciprocal would make sense and doesn’t add any complexity to the game that I can see.  IMHO it actually makes the rules make more sense.  Hopefully they can address this in the 3rd Edition.

[Kodiak]

And that which could physically be done would be worse somehow than the fantasy 40K rule of being able to shoot through impenetrable objects??

[Kodiak]

I understand when they are in the terrain they can be seen and hit, that makes sense to me.  What I am talking about is when they are behind, completely out of hard cover but sheltering behind it, and all of the squad is impossible to see or hit except for 1 lone figure peaking out from behind a stone building for example how can the other 9 possibly be hit.

[Kodiak]

I think you may be missing the point.  The question really is how can you hit and or kill anyone behind something you cant shoot through??  I dont care how many shots the Stuart has.  Say it is 10 shots from a rifle squad.  1 man is exposed, 9 men are behind cover (stone building in this example, in what universe can a .30 caliber rifle bullet kill more then the 1exposed man.  If this is really how the rule works what sense does that make?  So I take it when the squad fires they can all shoot at anything the one man can see.

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