Interception or not?

[Darkson]

Posted to the wrong thread.

Well now you've lost the whole post.
There was a reason I merged it (besides you trying to make out this one had been locked). Reposting was hardly a sensible plan, and in the process of me moving daloonie's reply, you've deleted it here, whilst I deleted the repost, so it's nowhere now.
Hope you've got a copy, cos I haven't.
If you have, edit it back into this thread - don't make a new thread.

[gandresch]

Oh, thank you for that.
I give up. I accept, that there will never be a a clear rule to interception.

Ps: I have a range ruler...

[plasmoid]

All the situations that aren't logically obvious happen when the intercepter is in the TZ of the passer or reciever.
Always allow interceptions from these squares, and your problem disappears.
I've played it. Worked fine.

[gandresch]

Hi,

no they don't. There are a lot of more cases, but my last post was deleted...
Just think about it.

Greetz,
gan

[Darkson]

but my last post was deleted...

Again, your last post was moved, and you took it upon yourself to re-delete it from the thread it was moved to - your problem.

[gandresch]

Again, it doesn't matter if I deleted it or if you moved it or if eruptions on the sun made it implode ... it's gone. I never blamed anyone for this.

[funnyfingers]

Do you even need to measure though? Wouldn't you just put the ruler from center A to center C and if B was within the points of center A and C and within the rule he could attempt an interception? I see no need for a distance qualifier.

[omnimutant]

Not trying to derail but it's somewhat on topic...

What does one do with a custom pitch who's squares are slightly larger? I like not having to relay on the range ruler for passing, and that Pass Table works great for that. The range ruler is set to a different scale then my Custom pitch (in fact almost any custom pitch), so it's not going to work well as a good interception test. I would think some real easy clarification could come into play.


I Also like the idea that anyone adjacent to the thrower or catcher (in any square) has an attempt at intercepting. It could be assumed that they leaned in a little to interfere and got a piece of it. This makes it 1000X easier to figure out as most of the time that's where the intercept confusion problem lies anyway.

What if a zone of say "3 squares wide" (one square on each side of the passers square) were used instead. Anyone's square falling under the template(which could be anything 3 squares wide) would get the attempt. This way it's at least standardized somewhat, and were not stuck using the plastic range ruler, which was designed originally for a smaller pitch in the first place(astrogranet pitch?). Lets not also forget that the pitch that comes with the BOX is so bad, that the squares aren't even all the same size...

[slup]

When playing on a field with custom square sizes we have found that the easiest way to measure passing ranges and interception si to dig out a real board and measure there.

[omnimutant]

Doh! OK thanks...

[B SIDE]

Is this clarification still valid in LRB6? This came up in a game last night and I allowed myself to be talked out of my pick attempt.

[Smurf]

YYNY.

That's how I view it.

[Pagan]

Well sitting here at work and with the new clarification we used in this thread, and am seeing an apparent intercept attempt that I don't think gets one now. So to avoid Piling On too much just this one scenario to consider:

A is throwing to B, C the Evil Elf is intercepting. X=nice handy empty squares

XAX
XXX
XXX
XXX
CBX

Okay while this is the last word that should be used in an argument with trolls and elves, but realistically I'd think C could intercept this pass. But if we assume 30mm squares(actual number is unimportant as long as it is constant) then:
__
AB = 120mm
__
BC = 30mm

Angle ABC = 90º

I don't need to go any further to know that line AC is going to be >120mm(≈123mm). Am I correct in assuming C cannot intercept if he is standing beside either the thrower or catcher with a straight line throw like this?

[plasmoid]

Yep, no intercept.

[Glamdryn]

Yep, no intercept.

I don't get why this is not an intercept.

The range ruler would be over C.

Why have a range ruler at all, if there are times when intercepts arent covered by it?

glam