Over watch and blasts

[scorpio]

Just a quick question on overwatch rules. How do they work for weapons with blast markers? (eg venom canons or barbed stranglers) I hear for flames you get D3 hits. Could someone please tell me how it works. Thanks.

[Rakuall]

I don't think blasts can ever be used on overwatch...

[kenji10000]

No blasts in overwatch

pg 21 for overwatch

Pg13 for snap shots...

[scorpio]

That's annoying. So now stinger salvo has become a more viable option than cluster spines.

[Deleted]

You won't think it's annoying next time you assault a squad of LFs!

[Lanesend]

Jul 30, 2012 19:33:47 GMT scorpio said:

That's annoying. So now stinger salvo has become a more viable option than cluster spines.

Well, if you plan on taking the gun purely for overwatch, it would be the better choice, but 4 shots on snapfire is only 2/3 hits... Not something to count on.

[wisdomseyes1]

Okay, some rules questions every once and a while are fine... But I don't think we are supposed to just hand out the rukes in the rulebook... Isn't that like a copyright thing?

[nurglitch]

It's fine to quote exerpts for educational purposes. It's almost necessary to constructive discussion to quote rules. Torrenting scans of the rulebook, on the other hand...

[wisdomseyes1]

Jul 31, 2012 19:42:16 GMT nurglitch said:

It's fine to quote exerpts for educational purposes. It's almost necessary to constructive discussion to quote rules. Torrenting scans of the rulebook, on the other hand...

I understand that, but in the case of "I don't have a rulebook, how does this work" isn't that problematic?

[General Chips]

Weve been doing that exact thing for years: think about it

[maine]

Jul 31, 2012 16:50:52 GMT wisdomseyes1 said:

Okay, some rules questions every once and a while are fine... But I don't think we are supposed to just hand out the rukes in the rulebook... Isn't that like a copyright thing?

Game mechanics cannot be copyrighted. Works of text can be copyrighted, but there is fair use doctrine which allows quoting portions for certain uses.

"Get the rulebook" is a valid response, but is also elitist - this is a pretty complex rulebook with little tidbits scattered throughout. It's easy to miss parts. Not everyone learns by sitting down and reading a big book, some learn best by doing.

[wisdomseyes1]

It's elitist to say I don't want to pay for something that I can just go online and say "hey, how do you play this game?"

Right now I'll accept it because the rulebook if freaking expensive, and so a lot of people won't want to get it, but will instead just look at internet responses to their questions that are exactly "I don't have the rulebook, quote the rule for me"

*As soon* as that $10 rulebook comes out though... I really don't think it is fair to say it is "elitist" for me to pay $20 of my hard earned money to SPLIT a rulebook and learn that it is suddenly inlay to just not even have it. If you can't afford the 10 dollar version of the rulebook, you are playing the wrong game. And at that point i do expect the hive to answer citation questions as we did all of 5th edition. This "you have never seen the rulebook? I'll describe the details of the rules" thing wouldn't have been okay a few months ago.

I understand it now, but I would prefer people to answer with page numbers and such rather than telling me that I waisted money.