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I was looking at Secutarii Peltasts and it occurred to me that maybe covering fire could work if it only hit on a 6, and caused the targeted unit a -1 to hit.

What’s the purpose of covering fire?

It seems like it’s either end up as a bonus debuff as you shoot stuff at a unit you need to kill, or “This unit doesn’t have anything else useful to do, so it’ll shoot at that unit just to annoy it”. And then it’s just one more advantage for winning the roll to shoot first.

There is an IG stratagem for supressive fire - you hit nothing but target can't overwatch and moves at half speed.

@The_Real_Chris:

That's pretty cool. More options for removing overwatch or changing another unit's behaviour are always good.

 solkan wrote:
What’s the purpose of covering fire?

It seems like it’s either end up as a bonus debuff as you shoot stuff at a unit you need to kill, or “This unit doesn’t have anything else useful to do, so it’ll shoot at that unit just to annoy it”. And then it’s just one more advantage for winning the roll to shoot first.

I always forget that most people don't play with AA like I do because I had a completely different immediate reaction. I do agree that something like this shouldn't exist with the IGOUGO turns because it is absolutely a win more mechanic at that point. With alternate activation tho I could see this being cool.

Covering fire would be cool, but I feel like the purpose of 8th edition it to be less complicated. Maybe if they added it to heresy era rules...