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Is it a fact that my opponent needs to see the body, arms, head or legs of my broadside in order to shoot at it, thus if all he can see were the railguns there would be no shot?

Edit: um, but yakface said in another thread they still block line of sight when shooting passed the broadsides. Yes?

onlainari wrote:Is it a fact that my opponent needs to see the body, arms, head or legs of my broadside in order to shoot at it, thus if all he can see were the railguns there would be no shot?

Edit: um, but yakface said in another thread they still block line of sight when shooting passed the broadsides. Yes?

Yes.

To target the broadsides themselves you have to see a part of the body as defined in the rulebook. Gun barrels are not defined as part of the body.


But when trying to draw LOS past the broadsides all parts of a model that physically block LOS do exactly that (block line of sight) as there are no exemptions in the rules for those parts of the model in that situation.