Just trying to figure out how this is supposed to work.
To decide if a base is in or out of terrain:
A base rolling a dice or with a dice rolled against it uses the "line of fighting".
A supporting file front rank base (generating a dice for the supported file) uses the "line of fighting" for the base it is supporting, not its own front edge.
A base contributing because it is providing a rank needed for a claim uses its own front edge.
Is that correct?
I think this may be a bit of bad drafting. I think the intention is that the "its front edge" should be "the file's front edge". Does that make more sense?
Richard
Quote from: lionheartrjc on January 30, 2023, 04:07:07 PM
I think this may be a bit of bad drafting. I think the intention is that the "its front edge" should be "the file's front edge". Does that make more sense?
Richard
Well, either wording makes sense, but the meanings are different.
If a rear rank,
it can only provide support if
its front edge is entirely out of terrain affecting it.
If a rear rank, it can only provide support if the file's front edge is entirely out of terrain affecting it.
However, the second one is a bit more consistent with the previous sentence :
To determine if a base is affected by terrain for combat, we use the line of fighting, which is determined by the edges of the files fighting.
Not entirely consistent, though, because in a non-aligned combat, the line of fighting could be out of the terrain even if the front of the file is partly in the terrain.
Perhaps the actual intention is:
If a rear rank, it can only provide support if the line of fighting is entirely out of terrain affecting it (it does not matter whether the base itself is in or out of the terrain).