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(Answered) Grappling questions
« on: 26 July 2019, 16:14:51 »
Regarding grappling attacks(TacOps, page 90), I have a couple questions:

1: Upon a successful grapple attack, is the target mech rotated to face the attacker? I want to say no, but the bit saying that both units can only fire forward torso/head weapons at each other(without any reference to facing) makes me wonder. If I grapple a Battlemaster from behind, is it only able to fire the rear lasers at me, or is it rotated by the attack and can fire the forward weapons instead?

2: When grappled units fire at each other, is the range considered to be 1 or 0? I'm reasonably sure it's supposed to be 0, but I just wanted to check, for minimum range purposes.

Thanks!
« Last Edit: 24 August 2019, 15:39:33 by Xotl »
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Re: (Research) Grappling questions
« Reply #1 on: 24 August 2019, 15:39:26 »
1. Maintain facing; ignore normal weapon arcs because this is a special circumstance and it shouldn't break anything.

2. They're in the same hex, so range 0.
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