If this has already been covered at some point in the past, I apologize in
advance.
My question involves snipers firing at targets that end up being more than the
fifth range band out, or closer than the fifth range band but with enough
cover to make effective fire impossible.
Since snipers don't have to roll effective fire to give the target a
suppression counter, would targets beyond effective range or in heavy cover
get a suppression?
Thanks for your help.
This is fairly easy to work out really.
The suppression occurs when a sniper fires. Since in the case where there is
no valid target eg longer than 5 range bands, the Sniper isn't going to "take
the shot" so it isn't an issue.
If you want to rationalise it further. A Sniper will normally only fire if he
is reasonably sure of a hit (any sniper worth his salt will go for kills not
wounds anyway).
If a player is going for teh value of teh automatic suppression then I would
suggest that he is playing the rules and not in the spirit of the game so he
can do what he likes anyway. In this case he might rationalise that the sniper
is putting a round over the targets head just for the demoralisation
effect........whatever.
Enjoy!
Owen G
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