[ASLML] DC residual

[Bruce Bakken]

> >
> >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)."
>

The Collateral Attack does not leave Residual FP, but the original attack 
versus the AFV does.

A Collateral Attack "is resolved as a separate attack vs the vehicle's 
Vulnerable PRC immediately subsequent to the resolution of the attack vs the 
vehicle..."

While this "separate attack" (Collateral Attack) does not leave Residual FP, 
the original "attack vs the vehicle" does leave Residual FP, per 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).
>

When a vehicle is pre-designated as the attack, we know that no other unit 
is affected by that attack.  Likewise, no other unit than the PRC are 
affected by a Specific Collateral Attack.

This has no bearing on the Residual FP left by the original pre-designated 
attack.

>(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.)
>

The Residual FP (if any) is left by the original attack, whether 
pre-designated or not.  Whether the original attack creates a Collateral 
Attack is an independent issue.

See the D.8 EX on page D2 [2nd Ed] for an example of ordnance TH striking 
the vehicle, making a TK DR, and leaving (ROF dependent) Residual FP.

It also seems that perhaps the Thrower's Location might receive Residual FP, 
since "both the target's and thrower's Locations are immediately attacked by 
the DC".  However, A8.2 says "the target Location in which the attack is 
resolved", so evidently only the AFV's Location receives the Residual FP.

Regards,
Bruce Bakken

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