[ASLML] Re: Hulldown in VBM?

[Sam Belcher]

Beseler writes:

> eg: Facing the enemy, a tank moves into bp up alongside the 
> left side of a 
> building.
>  A wall is infront of the tank, and extends to the vertex 
> just off its left front  fender.  The hexside parralleling  
> the Left side of the tank is wide open.  At what point do we 
> judge that 
> shots coming
> from the front, front left, then directly from the left, 
> 'cross' the wall vertex?

Lets take a specific hex. Look at 3T3. Assume an AFV in T3 in bypass along
the T3/S3 hexside. (There is a wall on the T2/T3 hexside.)

The tank in 3T3 would be hull down to fire from an enemy AFV in bypass in
3T1 on the T1/U2 hexside. In this case, the LOS is traced exactly through
the end of the wall. Per the rules, the wall extends to the end of the
hexside and includes fire traced right down the hexside.....

The tank would be hull down to fire coming from U2. The fire crosses the
wall hexside that the tank is claiming Wall Advantage on...

But the tank in 3T3 would not be hull down to fire from S1 or T1. Even
though the LOS is traced to the vertex at S3/T3/T2 the fire is coming from
"outside" the wall - i.e. not across the T2/T3 wall. 

This is how I understand it, I was unable to find a specific example in the
rules that spells it out - it may be there, but I was not able to find it. 

Sam