Fire zone question--Is it ok to do this?

[Bede]

Unit F is facing two units, Unit A and Unit B.

Unit A is directly in front of Unit B.

Unit F wants to shoot at guys in Unit B and has to figure out a way to do this without getting his fire soaked up by Unit A.

Can Unit F place his fire point 5" behind Unit B so that none of Unit A's models will be within the zone and therefore the closet model to the firer and within the zone will be a model in Unit B?

Now if you say that Unit F can only do this if its models can draw LOS to the Fire point, how do you figure this? Do you literally trace a LOS from each model in Unit F to the Fire point and only those that don't draw LOS over a model in Unit A can see it?

Or do you just play that Unit F can't "see through" unit A?

Thanks.

 

[Lorcan Nagle]

Members of other units block LOS according to the rulesheet.

 

[cordas]

Members of other units block LOS according to the rulesheet.

Well any models not in the shooting squad can block or obscure LOS. Any models in the shooting unit who can't get LOS to the center of the FZ can't shoot into it. This has probably been done exactly to stop (or make it damn diffiuclt) to do what you are suggesting.