if you are shooting one file at a time, and the first file kills a base, exposing a second rank base, can your next file target the newly exposed base?
Do you have to decide what all files are shooting at before you roll any dice?
P98 pt 3 - all shooting is simultaneous. So even if resolving shooting one file at a time, I don't think you can shoot at bases uncovered in such a manner.
Quote from: LawrenceG on January 27, 2023, 11:29:42 PM
if you are shooting one file at a time, and the first file kills a base, exposing a second rank base, can your next file target the newly exposed base?
Do you have to decide what all files are shooting at before you roll any dice?
You decide file per file when the file shoots !
So yes if the front rank gloriously dies, you may target the second softer rank
Quote from: accard on January 28, 2023, 03:27:15 AM
P98 pt 3 - all shooting is simultaneous. So even if resolving shooting one file at a time, I don't think you can shoot at bases uncovered in such a manner.
I don't agree. The simultaneous bit refers to shooting back. A file can shoot, determine its effect, before the next file chooses it's target.
Richard
As Richard says, all quite clear in section 7H, 5.2 , p98 of rules pdf
5.2. Or the shooter can choose to roll for files one at a time, shooting at each file's target
and then removing killed bases as they occur. This can have a different shooting result
from (1) if the target UG has bases of differing vulnerability. If you roll the dice together
you have committed to (1) and cannot go back and do (2).
Quote from: tarnowski1 on January 29, 2023, 09:57:47 PM
As Richard says, all quite clear in section 7H, 5.2 , p98 of rules pdf
5.2. Or the shooter can choose to roll for files one at a time, shooting at each file's target
and then removing killed bases as they occur. This can have a different shooting result
from (1) if the target UG has bases of differing vulnerability. If you roll the dice together
you have committed to (1) and cannot go back and do (2).
That only means if I shoot at the far base, the far base dies instead of the nearest base, which might be of different vulnerability.
We can't confidently derive the ability to shoot at a revealed base from this alone, especially if we interpret "all shooting is simultaneous" as being a general statement, not as specifically to allow the dead to shoot back.
It's reasonable to assume that RJC knows what is intended. Hopefully it will be clarified in the next update.