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Rampaging Chaos Russ Driver




A few months back I was at a rogue trader playing a game of 40k when another player showed up. He was talking about how he was in a tourney that accepted a rule about "Direct" fire.

The rule being that there is NO scatter for certain vehicles with the "direct" fire rule... Vindicators (and certain other ordinance vehicles) for instance if they have line of sight.

Where as "Indirect" fire does not require line of sight but does have scatter.

I meant to bring this up before. What do you guys think?

It sounds absurd but since a "referee" decided it was ok, it makes me think twice.

   
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch






Haha you got hosed.

Read the ordinance rules they cover how direct fire scatters, how it scatters more with movement, how indirect scatters and howit can'tbe fired if it moves. If anyone had a rulebook I don't see how this could have been overlooked.

Now if he meant that that specific tournament had a rule for direct fire than you should have been made aware of that ahead of time when you signed up.

   
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Rampaging Chaos Russ Driver




Oh, it wasnt me, this was just casual conversation I had while playing a game.

   
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Automated Rubric Marine of Tzeentch






Posted By the_trooper on 03/23/2006 12:17 PM<br>Oh, it wasnt me, this was just casual conversation I had while playing a game.




So this isn't very clear, was he just telling a story about how he convinced a judge to allow him to use this 'direct fire' thing in a tournament or that the tournament was set up that way? We won't discuss rules of tournaments here since they are subject to the tourny organizers and not the rules.

   
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Rampaging Chaos Russ Driver




Im sorry, I posted it kinda quick, in between doing a few things at work.

It was a tourney rule which the player took as a real 40k rule.

   
 
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