This is so stupid....

tim25 · Post by **tim25** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:31 pm

I cant believe i've got a rules debate going on about something as so stupid as this. Can somebody please confirm to my flat mate - who obviously cannot read - that on a pass, if the black boundary line on the range ruler crosses the square that the reciever is on it is counted as the next range band - & not when it crosses the figures head! I apologies for asking this question, especially after playing this bloddy game since the first edition (obviously the best version!), but I have an exceptionally thick flat mate (or i'm going slightly mad...)

tim (IOW)

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:35 pm

Yes look at page 13 of the rulebook, in the example at the bottom, it says clearly that if its partly in the longer range you use the longer range.

tim25 · Post by **tim25** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:41 pm

yes I’m right - or my deeply thick flat mate (who as you can tell caused a deeply unnecessary argument over this) is? (please humour me - i would like to rub salt in the wounds...

Xynok · Post by **Xynok** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:47 pm

Of course. Simply tell him the player throwing the ball is throwing to the SQUARE a player just happens to be in. Because of this, IF the ball winds up on target, the player may THEN try to catch it. This is exactly why it is LEGAL to throw to an EMPTY square...or does your friend insist it depends on the blade of grass position in that case?

You are right, the range is measured space to space; it doesn't matter how much (or little) of said space the model takes up, you are measuring from source SPACE to target SPACE, NOT model to model.

We have a very nice axis chart that allows you to measure any distance on the field without the range ruler at all for this very reason; simply count how many squares away vertically from the thrower, then how many squares from there horizontally to the target...cross reference and you have your range. One of the player's in our league who worked as a radar plotter on a submarine in the US Navy developed it, and it has cleared up all arguments of this type. I'll post it one of these days for you to take a look at.

tim25 · Post by **tim25** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 10:58 pm

thankyou all, i think the 7-1 win over his awful scaven team that he persists playing with may of had something to do with the arguement starting..

Munkey · Post by **Munkey** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 11:03 pm

Ouch

7 - 1s gotta hurt. Many casulties?

tim25 · Post by **tim25** » Thu Nov 21, 2002 11:07 pm

not really, only two in a team over 12 - I started with 10 (treeman / woodelf problem...) 2 x wardancers with stripball & side step + a catcher with sprint and ma of 10 had something to do with it .....