My son Brandon and I played through some more of the scenarios this afternoon/evening, we have already done all of the ones in the Starter Set, and I had downloaded the ones from the website and printed them out and we have worked our way through those as well.
Again, we had a great time, it is so much of a relif to play this game for some reason, it is fast, fun and for the most part easy to understand (again, I have a long time history of playing 40k and finding people stuck reading the rules and trying to figure things out for half the game).
Anyhow, two questions came up tonight, and since I do not yet have the big rule book (only the mini one from the starter set), I can't find the answers.
1) A situation came up where my son had engaged me with a unit and we were in hand to hand, and his second unit came up behind the close combat (behind my guys), is he allowed to open fire on my unit even though it is engaged in hand to hand? We decided that he could, and also decided if any of his guys were in the zone of fire they would take the first shots... none of his guys were in the zone though, and he shot me from behind and had his second unit also engage in hand to hand (it was a brutal day for the White Stars), anyhow, is there an official rule on this? (Can you shoot into hand to hand with another unit)?
Answer from reader - The answer to question #1 is on p. 61 of the deluxe rulebook: "If the targeted unit is engaged, the whole melee is targeted: for matters of simplicity, consider all the units engaged as the same unit." This does not appear in the starter rulebook you are using.
2) The second question is probably something that I am just missing... to determine what we need 'to hit' when shooting, we have just been using the chart on the back of the main book, but it is a pain always going back to that chart, especially if playing a scenario in the book or if one of us wants to look something up in the book... So my question is this: how do you determine what you need to roll to hit based on the target number and how many bands away from the enemy unit you are. For instance, if you have a 5 for your target number, and are 4 bands away, what do you need?
Answer from reader - You need to use the universal table of resolution which is on one of the included cards.
As for the first question with the combat, let me ask you this... If he has 4 guys and I have 4 guys, and we are engaged in hand to hand combat... and he fires into the engaged group with another unit (not in the hand to hand)... do the wounds done get split evenly between the two units... OR, if my units were all standing in such a way that my units blocked his, would I take wounds first, and then the excess goes to him.
Example: X = My guys 0 = His guys
00.......XX00
00.......X0
0........XX0
In the above example, his guys (the O's on the left) are shooting at the hand to hand combat on the right (X's and O's all engaged)... Since he doesnt have a clear line of site to his guys (O's), would my guys take all of the hits first? If he did 5 wounds, would my guys all be killed off, or would I lose 3 guys and him 2?
Answer from reader - Shooting into melee is one of the most complex things to do in the game.
You need to break things down into their smaller steps.
1) Determine field of fire and range.
2) Roll and determine impacts.
3) Distribute impacts from closest to farthest with left over impacts hitting the targetted unit.
4) Roll cover saves, if any, for each group.
5) Roll damage for each group and remove figures starting with the closest to the shooting unit.
Thanks, My son and I have had a blast with this game!
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