Vehicles and cover

[Orkimedes]

It appears the mini-by-mini 50% height rule during terrain discussion has been removed.  The terrain discussion relative to cover only includes whether a given piece is light or heavy.  Does this mean the following:

1) Non-vehicle minis get cover from most/all terrain that is not purely decorative, and

2) How do you determine if a vehicle has cover based on the following from page 37 (and 38 for repulsors): "During the Determine Number of Obscured Miniatures step, a ground vehicle miniature’s silhouette must be at least 50% obscured to count as obscured."  If this is based on whether a vehicle is obscured at the time of the attack, and cover LOS is now done from every part of the attacker's silhouette at the time of attack, does this result in weird situations where a vehicle would be mostly or entirely obscured by a small piece of terrain from one point on the attacker's silhouette (if they are very close to said terrain piece but not touching it) and therefore provide it cover?

Thank you

[Seth]

On 1/16/2023 at 3:34 PM, Orkimedes said:

It appears the mini-by-mini 50% height rule during terrain discussion has been removed.  The terrain discussion relative to cover only includes whether a given piece is light or heavy.

Players are free to discuss whether or not terrain provide covers to different unit types. If not otherwise specified by the players, there is no automatic rule or default that terrain doesn't give cover based on its size/height relative to a mini's silhouette.

On 1/16/2023 at 3:34 PM, Orkimedes said:

1) Non-vehicle minis get cover from most/all terrain that is not purely decorative

If any part of their silhouette is obscured by a piece of terrain that grants them cover, yes.

On 1/16/2023 at 3:34 PM, Orkimedes said:

If this is based on whether a vehicle is obscured at the time of the attack, and cover LOS is now done from every part of the attacker's silhouette at the time of attack, does this result in weird situations where a vehicle would be mostly or entirely obscured by a small piece of terrain from one point on the attacker's silhouette (if they are very close to said terrain piece but not touching it) and therefore provide it cover?

If the vehicle's silhouette is 50% obscured from any part of the attacking unit leader's silhouette (as above, by terrain agreed by the players to grant it cover), then it will have cover.

Hope this helps,
Seth