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Can a Skyray fire its seeker missiles normally (without markerlights) if the target is behind the vehicle? I'm wondering if this could be good Puppet Master defense - have the vehicle's rear facing the rest of your army on turn 1.

Line of sight for a Vehicle mounted weapon system is drawn down the length of the barrel. I do see your concern though, as the weapon system in question has no barrel just the missile itself and a tiny mounting that is hard to draw from. I would say, in absence of a barrel, you can use the length of the weapon system that best appropriates what a traditional barrel would look like. Do the usual method of pointing the weapon at the target, if the mounting allows, and then measure from the tail end to the very tip. I would see it as a 'Win at All Cost' argument to draw line of sight out of either the tail end or tip of a one shot missile, depending on what best suits the person arguing this stance.

Normally for vehicles the inability to point the weapon system at the target, because it is facing the wrong way, would prevent the weapon from firing.

I believe the top assemblage for the Skyray is a turret? Turret's have a 360 degree arc of fire (unless rotating the turret is physically blocked by another part of the model).

A skyray's missile rack can rotate 360°

And what is this "tiny"? the skyray rack is HUGE.

I think the "tiny" part was about the bit that clamps around the missile, that slot that holds it to the rack.