[SG] Assaulting an IP force

IP is non-specific. It is making use of available
cover. That could mean having created shell
scrapes with the e-tool, it could mean piling
rocks, it could mean finding a good log to get behind, or failing all of that,
it could mean just lying down.

One way or the other, whatever it actually is, it provides a benefit in the
first round of HTH combat (refer to the HTH rules in SG2 if you don't believe
me). This makes it a greater danger to assault IP troops.

Given this is the case, one might think that anyone seeing the enemy down and
ready IP might be a wee bit more reticent in attacking.

(I myself find the idea of attacking troops on OW to be rather horrendous, but
that isn't as easily determinable as IP and is a house rule to boot).

IP has a clear impact on how the close assault is fought and the results, and
that should be
enough to mandate a +1 penalty to the
initiation test in my eyes.

It is far easier to assault a moving unit, an unaware unit, a unit busy doing
something else,
a suppressed unit, etc. than a ready, dug-in,
overwatching unit or worst of all, all three of those. And the assaulting
troops KNOW that.
(Well, maybe not the yellow-chits.... maybe they
should suffer no modifiers to CA initiation cause they just don't know enough
to be terrified)

From: Thomas Barclay kaladorn@magma.ca
> IP is non-specific.

Except is specifically *not* hard cover or soft cover. I also don't know that
it would be all that easy to determine "IP or not" (as opposed to "cover or
not") IRL.

> It is far easier to assault a moving unit, an

I'm not disagreeing, I'm saying if the *usual* case is to attack troops
who are in cover/IP, then that would be the case in which there is no
modifier (other that the usual +2 or whatever it is).  If so, then
"attacking morons in the open" would only have a +1 (or possibly even a
+0)