Are Terrain Features Also Terrain Parts?

[Sleboda]

I'm struggling to wrap my head around whether or not a Terrain Feature that has no subdivisions is simultaneously a Terrain Part.

 

This matters for the following section of the LoS rules:

"The line cannot 
pass through Blocked terrain features with a higher Elevation than 
the character. If the object is on top of a terrain part, the line can 
pass unobstructed through all terrain parts with the same or lower 
Elevation as the object."

 

I was watching a video where the shooting character was on the battlefield and the target object was on a gantry on the opposite side of a standard small Shatterpoint building. There was no line that could be drawn between them without crossing through the building (blocked terrain).

 

Both the gantry and the building were of the same elevation.

The first part of the quote above would indicate that the shot is not possible as it passes only through the blocked terrain feature.

The second part of the quote would indicate that the shot is possible IF a terrain feature is also always a terrain part.

 

I know players can agree to whatever they want, but I think they need to know the base rule before they can agree if they are suspending that rule or simply playing by it.

 

Thanks!

[Thoras]

37 minutes ago, Sleboda said:

I'm struggling to wrap my head around whether or not a Terrain Feature that has no subdivisions is simultaneously a Terrain Part.

Yes, a Terrain Feature is made up of at least one Terrain Part.