Oh, boy. THIS thread. Again.

On 8/9/2017 at 8:57 AM, Budgernaut said:

Oh.

They answered one of my questions! It only took them a few months.

My vote is A-2, B-1, C-2

Ranks are always perpendicular to the facing direction. A's contacted edge is not shortened so its full threat of 2. B's contacted edge is shortened, so remove the partial, leave 1 tray behind. C's is shortened as well, so remove the partial, use the full front rank of 2.

Side notes: This means when side-flanking you really want to target the back trays on on the contacted edge first to decrease threat-- which does make a side flank is better than a rear flank (as Curlycross said). It's a bit strange that a rear flank is worse.

The Brutal X ability triggers on a flank as well doesn't it? It simply increases 'threat' -- doesn't care which direction is being contacted?

Pretty sure the intention is that threat is whatever is in the contact edge. You don't ignore the entire back rank if you are in the back and the rank is partial.

9 hours ago, rowdyoctopus said:

Pretty sure the intention is that threat is whatever is in the contact edge. You don't ignore the entire back rank if you are in the back and the tank is partial.

I guess that makes sense below it says "If the contacted edge is shortened by a partial rank. So the instances where you're attacking the side and the tray is there but not on the other side... Threat is contacted edge in that case.

On ‎8‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 1:00 PM, Curlycross said:

66 Ranks

Each horizontal row of trays running the width of a unit is one rank of that unit.

66.3 A rank is partial if it contains at least one tray, but fewer trays than the front rank of the unit.

82 Threat

Threat represents a unit’s combat potency. A unit’s threat is usedwhen performing an attack and is determined by the type ofattack being performed:

82.1 When performing a melee attack, a unit’s threat is equal tothe number of trays that comprise the contacted edge.

• If the attacker has multiple contacted edges with the defender, the attacker chooses which contacted edge to use.

• If the contacted edge is shortened by a partial rank , calculate the number of trays as if the partial rank was not present.

This to me means that threat is only calculated by the back rows of the unit not the side rows… That would mean a side flank is better than a back flank.

AB1 or 1AB ABC ignores C a partial rank (since rank is only the back row, not sides) and attacks 12

C 2 2C with a threat of 1.

AB ABC has a threat of 2 here, because ignoring the partial rank of C, you still have 2 from

C AB.

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