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I should probably know this, but there was a disagreement at a store

I apologize if this is a stupid question

Let's use WOC in our example.

I have a unit of 5 hounds, and a unit of warriors behind them, can the warriors be shot?

To further elaborate on this question, let's say wood elves are 10 wide, 4 rows deep. Does the unit have to fire at the hounds, or can they split their shooting between the hounds and warriors?

The disagreement was between a WOC player who was using hounds to protect warriors from shooting. What are the rules exactly? Please be as detailed as possible. Can the shots bypass the hounds if some of the wood elves can see the warriors in their line of site (since the WE are 10 wide and the hounds are 5 wide)?

Thank you in advance :-)

First, it should be in "You made da call", but I suppose it's going to be moved there

Otherwise, refer to page 41 of the BRB:
If the majority of the target unit is obscured from the shooting model's view, it counts as being in cover. Of course, a unit is not obscured by itself (meaning that the back ranks are not obscured by the front ones)
Intervening models (friend or foe) give a -2 to hit

The width of the intervening unit compared to the shooters and target is relevant of course (a single infantry model won't usually be able to obscure a full unit being targeted)

But it would need to be some serious bad-ass dogs to obscure most of the (tall) WoC unit from the view of the (tall) Elven bowmen!