[Aslml] Falling Rubble and Bridge/Gully

[Bruce Bakken]

>
>One could even argue that there exist no level -1 after the Rubble has 
>fallen into the gully, thus covering it up completely.

No, both the Depression and the Crest exist in a combination gully-rubble 
hex.  I believe this is covered in B24.71 (NRBH).

>In fact even a woods hex would be transformed into Rubble. Any obtacle 
>terrain gets turned into a Rubble counter.
>

Okay.

>I think the exception is there since you can always clear (B24.7-.71) a 
>Rubble, thus leaving the bridge (and the gully) intact
>afterwards.
>

You can only clear a non-building hex of rubble.

>In other words, any obstacle gets transformed into a Rubble by Falling 
>Rubble, but after it is cleared only a Bridge remains.
>If for example, it had been a woods hex, the woods wont appear again after 
>a clearance. A bridge would.

Yes, the woods would appear.  Last sentence of B24.71.

Regards,
Bruce Bakken

>
>Thoughts.
>
>Kenneth
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tate Rogers" <gr27134 at charter.net>
>To: <bprobst at netspace.net.au>; "Scott Jackson" <asl_scottj at hotmail.com>; 
><Aslml at asl-forums.net>
>Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [Aslml] Falling Rubble and Bridge/Gully
>
>
>On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:01:57 +1100
>   Bruce Probst <bprobst at netspace.net.au> wrote:
> >On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:43:15 -0800, "Scott Jackson" 
><asl_scottj at hotmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>>Does this mean that the gully/stream location beneath the bridge has 
>rubble
> >>>in it (i.e., a rubble counter)?
> >>
> >>IMHO, yes...B24.121 ground-level means the base level of the hex--and 
>common
> >>sense would indicate that there is also rubble at the crest level as 
>well.
> >
> >Don't need "common sense", Scott: B24.2 states this explicitly.
>
>What it doesn't state "explicitly" is that in the case of a bridge the 
>rubble
>falls into two seperate locations...the bridge location and the depression
>location beneath the bridge. The exception for bridges in B24.121 could be
>read to mean that the bridge catches all the falling rubble preventing it 
>from
>falling into the depression location. In fact I am not at all sure that 
>rubble
>on the bridge automatically equals rubble in the depression but there isn't
>enough detail in the rules to make a good argument.
>
>Later-
>
>Tater (One Mean Spud!)
>
>
>

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