Shooting From Cover Question

[Wilber Olive]

Inside the “Top Secret” Cover box under Roll to Damage on Page 57 of the rule book, there is a topic called “Shooting From Cover”. The last sentence reads:

“If less than 50% of the unit’s models are inside dense terrain, but not at the edge, the unit can see and shoot out, but their shots will be affected by the cover modifier.”

Can anyone explain what that means?

[Stuart Harrison]

If your unit is in an area of terrain that you’ve defined as dense terrain (such as a wood) and you have at least half your models at the edge, you don’t count the cover modifier for that area terrain when shooting out.

If you have less than half of your models at the edge of the terrain you do count the cover modifier for that area terrain when shooting out.

[Master Chief]

I think it means your target gets the protection of cover if less than 50% of the models in your unit are at the edge of the cover. Best example to visualise this is a wall … if only 2 men out of a 10-man squad is touching the wall, then your target gets the bonus from the wall.

[Wilber Olive]

I understand what you are saying, but it doesn’t appear to be worded that way. For it to be what you are saying, it would need to worded something like this:

“If the unit is inside dense terrain, but less than 50% of the unit’s models are at the edge, the unit can see and shoot out, but their shots will be affected by the cover modifier.”

The way it is currently worded doesn’t appear to make any sense. By saying “if less than 50% of the unit’s models are inside dense terrain” that appears to imply that more than 50% of the unit’s models are outside the dense terrain. In addition, if less than 50% are not at the edge of said dense terrain, then that would imply that more than 50% are at the edge of the dense terrain. Therefore their shots would not be affected by the cover modifier.

[Stuart Harrison]

If more than 50% of the unit are outside the cover, you are already covered by the first sentence of Targets Obscured by Terrain or Other Models ((the first sub heading in the text box) – “If at least 50% of the shooters in the firing unit can draw a clear line of fire to at least 50% of the models in the target unit then the target is not in cover.”

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