Me and a group of buddies just picked up TOI and after our first playthrough we have a couple of questions on the rules.

1. How do shooting through forests work. Can you shoot from a forest across open ground and back into a forest? Can you shoot from clear terrain through a woods and back out into clear terrain?

2. Does line of sight extend all the way across the board if it is unobstructed? Also, if a unit is one level above another unit can the lower unit draw a LOS if the higher unit is on the edge of the elevation increase?

3. When you declare a move and attack and you decide to stop at a tile that triggers op fire, do the attack and op fire both go on the stack (and get resolved how initiative decides) or does the op fire always go before the attack?

Thanks

Josh

Joshawa said:

1. Woods are blocking terrain, so there is no shooting through. Units in a woods hex adjacent to open terrain (p.23) can shoot out and be shot at, since a hex does not block itself (same for buildings), so the answer to your first question is Yes (if the units are both in the trees at the edge of a woods) and the second question is No.

2. Yes. LOS works in both directions. If I can see you, you can see me. (There is a lot of discussion about LOS, so doing a search for other articles is a good idea.

3. Op fire can be triggered, as a unit moves into each new hex during its movement (p.19). Your opponent decides which hex is best for him to fire. In your example, your opponent decides as you are moving to op fire or not. After he decides, then your units officially stop in the hex, at which point you may attack.

Thanks for the speedy response, we are about to get going here in a few mins. One thing that still is not completely clear is does the op fire always fire first or does it go on the stack. (which would mean the attacker would get first shot if they had initiative.)

Joshawa said:

Op-fire is an interuption of your movement, because your opponent attacks you. Op-fire would fire first and your movement of that squad may end as a result (p.32)