My opponent and I had a different reading of the rules regarding LOS and Squads when targeting ship hull zones in a recent game. Didn't matter in the end in our game but I want to make sure I get it right for future.

When measuring LOS from a Squad to a ship's hull zone where do you measure LOS from?

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• When tracing line of sight to or from a squadron, players use the point of the squadron’s base that is closest to the opposing squadron or hull zone.

I've read it as you measure from the closest part of the squad to the target hull zone - i.e. from the squad to the hull zone you are aiming at - which works out the same as measuring from the centre of the Squad to the LOS dot on the defending hull zone. But my opponent said you measure from the part of the squad's base that is closest the ship's base, i.e meaning you get a much more acute angle when lining up to other hull zones. My squad in this case was closest to the front hull zone but wanted to shoot at the side hull zone. It could based on my version of the rules but not based on my opponent's.

We were playing on Vassal so I might be able to get an actual screenshot of the specific instance.

Illustration of problem.

You'd think that the blue line is the right one, but the pink line is what you should use, as that is the closest point.

Now imagine draging the squadron a bit forward. Now the shot is suddenly illegal.

(I haven't checked if the bit that touches is still the closer one, image just for illustration purposes).

I think you uploaded the same picture twice, @Green Knight .

5 minutes ago, Rikash said:

I think you uploaded the same picture twice, @Green Knight .

Fixed. Thanks.

Thanks for the explanation @Green Knight I think after all we both had interpreted the rule slightly wrong.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tHFkAmNGmGZh5XRoRIMqmEQkCwbs_T2L

The blue line in this screenshot was my LOS and the pink one his. Based on the explanation above the part of the Squad closest to the target hull zone was actually somewhere between the two lines which by my reckoning would have been able to just get LOS to the yellow dot on the side arc. I wish they had just said LOS is from the centre of the squadron as it's a lot less open to interpretation!

Here the real Los is close to the blue line. So shot legal.

It is very confusing, I agree. And it can actually be hard to accurately measure on a round base what is objectively closest.