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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

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