Re: Friendly Fire was RE: Back to Platoon Leaders

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>From: Los [mailto:los@cris.com]
>Subject: Re: Back to Platoon Leaders
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>>That brings me to another interesting observation about wargames. You
>>really miss the danger of friendly fire in them. [snip]

>YES! Every weapon has a Dangerous Space that just doesn't stop at the
>target. ASL was very good in that repsect. I think you could factor in
>something to reperesent this at least toa small degree. eg draw a line
>from centre of firer to each edge of target - this will form a traingle
>or zone; any other units wholly within this (frienly or enemy) have a
>chance of taking rounds. What sort of dice resolution? More thought
need
>but perhaps the bystanders do a roll with die shift up one or two?
>
>Owen G

I had already given this some thought in the early draft stuff for FMA
(the
man-to-man skirmish rules), by simply saying that any figures (friend,
foe
or innocent bystander) that were in base-to-base contact with the
"target"
figure stood  a chance of getting hit instead or as well. I intended
this
for hostage situations, firing into close combat etc. Ideas on how this
could be extended for SGII would be interesting....

Jon (GZG)