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Date Posted: 09:03:12 08/19/05 Fri
Author: Alan Yngve
Subject: Re: Smoke and AFVs
In reply to: Badger 's message, "Smoke and AFVs" on 11:44:54 08/04/05 Thu

Badger asks:
>Two questions about smoke and AFVs.
>
>Firstly - if I fire an AFV's main armament through a
>smoke counter, what effect does it have?

The smoke roll is added to the TO HIT attempt, see
parenthetical reference in rule 24.6).

>Secondly - Rule 41.3 states, in part, 'A tank or SP
>Gun may fire smoke instead of its amin armament at the
>outset of the Prep Fire Phase only. Am I right in
>thinking that the smoke must be fired before any
>firing by any counter at all, similar to how engineers
>lay smoke?

Yes, you are right. That is what "at the outset" is
supposed to mean. On the Advanced Sequence of Play on
the back of your SL rulebook, note that 2.1 is for the
smoke placed by engineers (which does not require a roll)
while smoke placement attempts per rule 41.3 would have
to be "at the outset" of 2.2. Point here is that you are
not permitted to fire at an enemy target smoke-free and
THEN place smoke to protect you from the counter-fire.

>If poss, can you give rules references if you have the
>answers
>
>Thanks

Hope this helps! -- Alan

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