spotting when turning around your units

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Originally Posted by RERomine

One thing about hull swivels triggering op-fire, if that occurs you almost have to provide a separate ability to do sector searches without a pivot/turn. This brings us back to the thread topic, more or less. Even as a separate ability, searching around will still be a tedious task.

You wouldn't have to provide a separate search. Not having a separate search may model the limited search ability of a single man with his head above the turret, or men peering through slits/periscopes. Forcing armour to rely more on infantry for spotting may not be a bad thing.

Originally Posted by RERomine

One final thought. If an enemy unit is seen on your flank or rear during your movement phase, what do you typically do if you decide to fire at it? Personally, I orient my front armor to the threat (well, about 15 degrees off straight on) and then fire. This is in case I miss and it returns fire. If this is what we do during our movement phase, why would we do something different during op-fire?

I agree. Well if nothing else changes, perhaps tanks should also be turning their hulls when shooting op-fire so they at least get the same benefit that the 'lesser' sp-guns currently get.

However, if hull swivels were to trigger op-fire, then one advantage of a tank is that you could choose to skip the hull swivel, just turn the turret and fire. Your shot may itself cause op-fire, but at least you get a shot in first, with a hull swivel triggered op-fire, the enemy gets a shot before you.


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