Rules Questions

[Marching10]

This problem has been discussed before, but I haven’t been able to find a consistent answer yet.

Is the cover modifier always applied to the entire firing unit or do you look at the line of sight of each individual model of a firing unit and see whether it gets the cover modifier or not? I very often see players give the cover modifier to some models within one of their units and not to others.

P. 57 calls the attackers “shooters”, does this only mean the models of the shooting unit that actually shoot (as if they are in range and have LOS) or all models of the shooting unit? This is important because you should consider 50% or more of the “shooters” for cover.

This has already been discussed here but the penultimate post has an example that contradicts the previous answers.

Shooting and Cover

[Stuart Harrison]

‘Shooters’ is models that can actually fire.  To shoot a model needs to be able to draw a line of fire (declare targets step) and within range (measure range and open fire step).

Cover is given for the entire unit or not at all.  That is the entire reason for having to reach the 50% threshold.  You need to read the actual definitions of the cover modifiers on p54, not just the text box on p57. – “Target is in soft cover: this applies if the majority of the target unit is in soft cover from the point of view of the majority of models firing against it.” and “Target is in hard cover: this applies if the majority of the target unit is in hard cover from the point of view of the majority of models firing against it.”  In both cases, it is the target unit, not the target model.

[Marching10]

Thank you. I actually missed the cover description on page 54.

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