Sorry to add yet another cover topic but I thought I'd ask.

Command radius is pretty huge for a 5 man squad in Warfare so theres a good chance at some point you can get a unit with 2 miniatures obscured in in soft cover and 2 obscured in hard cover (the other guys out in the open poor fella). Undoubtedly the unit is obscured but which cover value do you use?
Fairplay™ says use the lowest value but are there any rules I'm missing on this?

Since you don't have 50% or more of your squad in hard cover, I'd say you get soft cover, since you do have 50% or more of your squad in soft (or better) cover.

Maybe run an imaginary line between the unit. Depending on which side of the line the fire is coming from hard or soft cover?

Cover is determined, partially at least, by what the squad leader of your opponents attacking squad can see as you always check your line of sight from your squad leaders. So if your opponent's unit sees 2 men in hard cover and one out in the open but doesn't have good eyes on the other two units in soft cover the argument could be made for the entire unit getting a Hard Cover Save. If an enemy unit has a good line of sight on the entire unit then I would agree that soft cover probably makes the most sense with this sort of situation.

Even if the unit leader doesn't have LOS (and thus can't attack), you still check to see what kind of cover is obscuring the unit. So if it's still just soft cover, then that would still get counted. The example in the rulebook (on pg 41 I think) goes into this - the one unit is hidden, but still counts towards whether the squad is obscured.

Isn't there a quote in the rulebook that states if in doubt about the level of cover use the highest ?

mariettabrit said:

Not if you're in doubt, only if you would be covered by both. If your unit is less than 50% in hard cover, you woudln't be covered by hard cover, so it doesn't apply.

well in this example, he has 4 guys in cover, 2 soft 2 hard… so you could argue using the higher value… I'd be ok with it

everyones on the money on this one - page 43 - if a unit would benifit from both soft and hard cover, the effects of hard cover apply.

Thanks guys, i guess hard cover it is then.