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Long story short, in a game against 1k sons with my Harliquins, I cast Fog of Dreams which says that the unit cannot be chosen as the target of ranged attack unless within 12". And he cast a witchfire power from 18" away. Since the power says "ranged attacks" and make no mention of shooting, is it possible that witchfires are "ranged attacks"?

They are not.

Is this just a quick opinion answer, or is there a rule in a book that clarifies?

"ranged attacks" are defined in the rules. Shooting section, if I am not mistaken.

Attacks are made with weapons. But, there is no rule that says that ranged attacks are only done with ranged weapons. There is also no rule that says that a psychic power is a ranged attack. However, ranged weapons make attacks, it says so in the shooting phase rule. So its very reasonable to assume that a ranged attacks are done with ranged weapons.


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 DeathReaper wrote:
"ranged attacks" are defined in the rules. Shooting section, if I am not mistaken.

No, "ranged attacks" are not mentioned in the shooting phase rules.

If it's not described as a ranged attack, then it is not a ranged attack.

Edit: words.

 p5freak wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
"ranged attacks" are defined in the rules. Shooting section, if I am not mistaken.

No, "ranged attacks" are not mentioned in the shooting phase rules.

Do you not look at the rules before you post things that are false?

Page 217: "All of a ranged weapon's attacks..."

 DeathReaper wrote:

 p5freak wrote:

 DeathReaper wrote:
"ranged attacks" are defined in the rules. Shooting section, if I am not mistaken.

No, "ranged attacks" are not mentioned in the shooting phase rules.

Do you not look at the rules before you post things that are false?

Page 217: "All of a ranged weapon's attacks..."

"Ranged weapon's attacks" is not the same as "ranged attacks." A ranged attack could be understood as a psychic power as something which tries to harm you over a distance. Again, "ranged attacks" is not used in the rules, so we fallback to english language.

 p5freak wrote:
"Ranged weapon's attacks" is not the same as "ranged attacks." A ranged attack could be understood as a psychic power as something which tries to harm you over a distance. Again, "ranged attacks" is not used in the rules, so we fallback to english language.

Your statement is false.

The BRB defines Ranged attacks Page 366 "Ranged attack: An attack made with a ranged weapon is considered to be a ranged attack."

"ranged attack" = "An attack made with a ranged weapon" which is the same as saying "Ranged weapon attack" the word weapon does not need to be there, but if it is it does not change the statement.

Doh, you are right. I missed that one. I stand corrected.