[ASLML] DC residual

[Bruce Probst]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2004 22:50:03 -0400, "Bruce Bakken" <bebakken at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>>If you're attempting to target the AFV (which is legal), you won't leave 
>>any residual (since only the designated target can be affected).
>
>I don't agree.  While a Thrown DC that is successfully Placed will only 
>attack Vulnerable PRC with a Specific Collateral Attack, it still leaves 
>Residual FP in the Location for that attack.

D.8 explicitly says otherwise.

>The same would be true if you 
>fired HE at the AFV and hit it; it would attack Vulnerable PRC, and leave 
>Residual FP in the Location.

Again, D.8 explicitly says otherwise.

D.8 COLLATERAL ATTACKS: "A Collateral Attack receives no increased benefit due
to Multiple Hits, nor does it leave Residual FP (A8.2)."

>In this case, it seems to me that a Thrown DC (resolved on the 30 FP column) 
>would leave 12 Residual FP in the Bridge Location.  The Placement DRM (for 
>Throwing) would not reduce the amount of Residual FP (A8.26), since the DRM 
>apply to Placement and not for To-Hit/IFT.

D.8A SPECIFIC: "When a vehicle is attacked ... as a pre-designated target but
not destroyed, etc., any Vulnerable PRC in/on it are subject to a
full-strength Specific Collateral Attack as per D.8 above. ... No other unit
in the same Location is affected by the FP of a Specific Collateral Attack."

The Thrown DC must pre-designate the vehicle as its target (per A23.5); this
makes the DC FP vs. PRC a Specific Collateral Attack (per D.8A); this means it
leaves no Residual FP (per D.8).

(There is also no Collateral Attack if the DC actually destroys the vehicle,
per footnote 1 of the Collateral Attack Table, so there is no Residual FP in
that case either.)

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