Re: Stargrunt question
From: M.J.Elliott@u...
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:45:48 -0400
Subject: Re: Stargrunt question
Larry Enoch asked:
>If two friendly units are in the same cover (say a building), how does
a
>hostile unit decide which to fire at. Does this still boil down to
>"greatest threat"?
and Nick Caldwell answered:
>So, two solutions suggest themselves:
>1) Dice for it. This represents a commander noticing the glint of
metal
>off of one unit or one of the hostiles looking over the wall and thus
>attracting attention, or simply the commander saying "fire at the
>first/second floor! fire at the left/right side of the wall!".
>2) With the caveat that SG is on order for me but I am assuming they
use
>the DS2 system of activations: If one of the units has activated I
would
>make that the target on the justification that that unit has attracted
>attention to itself my moving or firing. If both have activated then I
>would give the shooting unit's player the choice because the activation
of
>each unit has given the shooting unit's commander a chance (whatever
>small) to assess the combat abilities of the hostiles, either by
watching
>them move or fire.
Both of Nick's suggestions are OK, but I prefer the second one, its more
in
the spirit of the game
Mike Elliott, GZG