Re: Hide-n-Seek in minis gaming

This also brings up the question of how to handle, in a hidden game, the
use 
of Reconnaissance by Fire (An interesting little concept I never thought
of 
myself, I read about it in the HHandbook for Marines, and confirmed it
with 
a coworker who is ex-marine) - basically, you find the answer to your 
question by firing INTO that clump of trees. If it runs away, fires
back, or 
bleeds, yes, it IS enemy infested. I brought it up with my marine
friend, 
and his reply was, "What's even nicer is reconnaissance by Fire by
AIR.... 
(he had a particular affection, apparently common in the USMC, for his 
brothers-in-arms who pilot helicopter gunships).

So how you handle this in a game? For DSII, I would suggest that any
time a 
spot that potentially COULD hold enemy units comes under fire, you make
a 
reaction test at a standard +1 threat level.  If the unit passes this
test, 
or there's really nothing there, then nothing happens.	If the unit
fails 
the test, it is revealed.  This maintains SOME of the mystery... Ok,
nothing 
happened... does that mean there's noone there, or that there's someone 
there, and they just have godlike testicles?

Brian Bilderback

>
> >....... Audacity seems far more fraught with peril
> >- is that clump of trees enemy infested? You haven't seen any, but
who
> >knows! It adds a whole other dimension to commanding units.

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