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The gets hot rule

"you must roll to hit, even if the target is found to be out of range."

Effectively, that means I can shoot even though my plasma rifle is out of range.

Because, where does it say that you don't get to shoot, it just says you must roll to shoot even if the target is found to be out of range.

I'm sure this is me being a TFG RAW.

I'll leave it up to you guys.

Shooting is comprised of hitting,wounding, saving etc.

In other words you

must roll to hit, even if the target is found to be out of range."

is not the same as

it just says you must roll to shoot even if

So you get to roll the to hit dice and nothing more?

Yup, you can shoot, but since the target is out of range, you automatically miss.

You still have to roll to see if the weapon Gets Hot, though.

Saldiven wrote:Yup, you can shoot, but since the target is out of range, you automatically miss.

You still have to roll to see if the weapon Gets Hot, though.

This.

You still roll to hit, the "hit" will automatically miss regardless of what you roll as you are out of range, but you can still "get hot!" on a roll to hit of a 1.

No ambiguity, just saying trying to fire should incur the same downside for a Gets Hot! weapon even if you arent in range.

nosferatu1001 wrote:You still roll to hit, the "hit" will automatically miss regardless of what you roll as you are out of range, but you can still "get hot!" on a roll to hit of a 1.

No ambiguity, just saying trying to fire should incur the same downside for a Gets Hot! weapon even if you arent in range.

100% correct

Isn't this really to cover the use of a plasma weapon with a blast marker? Not that it is exclusively the case but...

Homer

No, it is to cover the fact that Plasma weapons, when fired by a nonvehicle, have a chance of killing their bearer. Whether you are in range or not you have still fired and STILL have a chance of blowing your face off.

Cf to WHFB where if your cannon is out of range (unlikely, but still...) you must still roll to see if you have blown yourself up. You have still fired the shot, it just cannot hit anything, but that doesnt alter the chance of blowing yourself up.

You can, of course, choose not to fire if you're obviously out of range.

Yes, you can choose not to fire - but you have to declare you are not firing with X and then cannot change your mind. If you dont declare you are assumed to be firing with everything.