[Aslml] Complete Beginner

[Sam Belcher]

Bruce, One point...

> >Secondly could someone explain infantry smoke placement in simple terms
> to
> >me. I'm OK with the MF involved and the fact it takes place in the MPh
> but I'm
> >mightly confused by the "exponent" part of A24.1. To me exponent means
> "raise
> >to the power of" but that makes little sense in the context the rule uses
> it
> >since, if I'm reading it correctly, only a single die is rolled and for
> the MMC
> >I have raising their firepower to the power of the exponent results in
> numbers
> >well above six. Thus MMC can always place smoke but ends its MPh if it
> rolls
> >a six. Is that true or have I completely misunderstood?
> 
> Uh, it's just a number on the counter Charles, and that number is called
> the
> "Smoke Placement Exponent" of the squad.  Check out the counter
> illustrations on the inside front cover of the ASL Rules.  You don't need
> to
> read anything deep and mathematical into it, and yes it basically operates
> exactly as you've described.


NO, it most certainly does NOT operate as he described. 

He said you take the exponent and raise the FP to that power and then try to
roll less than THAT number on one die. IOW, you would only fail to have
infantry smoke if you rolled a 6 and pinned...??

e.g. a US 666 has a smoke "exponent" of 3. Six cubed is 216. Not hard to
roll less than that with one D6.

Sam