Line of Sight and models

[Mr Evil]

a unit supressed can only react by moving.

probably representing scrambling for cover or a retreit

 

[cordas]

Given all these riders it makes snipping off models at the back or in the middle of a squad a fairly hard thing to do, and is going to drasticaly cut down your chances of suppressing the target squad.

Since when? I was under the impression that a unit that is suppressed only loses it's next action not reaction.

Since it says under the suppression rules

If a unit is allocated at least as many damage dice in a single Shoot action as it had models then it will immediatly lose its next action, and only Move as a reaction. (1st sentance in its entirety of the 2nd paragraph of Suppresion)

To me this makes perfect sense, it means that snipping is possible if you want to do it (and are able), but it is difficult and more often than not nowhere near as effective as just shooting the squad.

The only times I can currently see this being useful are actually in SST Evo. Where snipping at the Grizzly Sergant, or the command unit for the Forth as these units are hard to kill, small unit size or solitary and immune to suppresion anyway. That said I am sure there will be games when one of us wants to snipe off a particular figure for whatever reason and have been gifted the oppertunity to do it.

 

[The Legend]

Given all these riders it makes snipping off models at the back or in the middle of a squad a fairly hard thing to do, and is going to drasticaly cut down your chances of suppressing the target squad.

Since when? I was under the impression that a unit that is suppressed only loses it's next action not reaction.

Since it says under the suppression rules

Ok I forgot that....

To me this makes perfect sense, it means that snipping is possible if you want to do it (and are able), but it is difficult and more often than not nowhere near as effective as just shooting the squad.

Yeah but as we both know all modern forces specially train snipers for that role specifically! Well actually sharp shooters have always been a specialist job as long as ranged weapons have been used in warfare fullstop. That is why I have a particular aversion to the "lets snipe the unit leader cos the rules are ambiguous and I can bend them to my will". Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha) :twisted: