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Still working through basic ideas about Kill Team as a newbie...

Throwing grenades: apart from a few exceptions which I've seen, and I right in thinking you need a valid target to throw a grenade at? Rather than just throwing it to a point on the board? This is counter-intuitive for me. If you know someone's hiding behind cover and can't be shot at, it's the whole reason for having a grenade in the first place.

Its an abstraction - while seeing someone duck behind a wall is an excuse for a brace of grenades, here you are carrying one and don't know if he is still there, has run off, did they duck there originally etc.

Grenades have the Indirect special rule to abstract this: they can't use cover for hiding in Concealment, so if you physically see the model at least somewhat, your guy has enough of an idea where to lob the grenade.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Grenades have the Indirect special rule to abstract this: they can't use cover for hiding in Concealment, so if you physically see the model at least somewhat, your guy has enough of an idea where to lob the grenade.

Ah that helps, I misread the rule about Indirect. Thanks.

I guess we are to believe these squads are disciplined enough not to toss grenades blind, because you might end up hurting your own troops. I forget that although I have a bird's eye view of the board, the guy on the ground has much less idea of what's going on around him. It's a fair rule, all considered.

A strategic ploy might work its way into my house-rules though...the 'clear the line at all costs' blind grenade toss!

(soon I won't be playing Kill Team at all, just a weird game of my own invention)