Shooting

[Noggin]

Played our first game of Western the other night and very good it was too.

One question that arose concerned shooting. When a group shoots a long shooter or fires a bow does the range have to be measured in straight lines from one of the four straight sides of the shooters square or can it dog leg?

We were puzzled as it didn't seem clear how to shoot at a unit in a diagonally adjacent square.

[martin goddard]

Good Q

The target square must be visible using a line of sight from shooter square centre to target square centre.
The range is then measured in complete squares.
Short shooters can shoot into the 8 squares that surround their own.
Bows and long shooters have no diagonals when measuring. They count the first square that touches(on the face) their own as square 1. Then they continue to count until the count arrives within the target square. No diagonals are allowed in this count. Thus a target that is in a square diagonal and on the corner of the shooter square is at a range of 2 squares.

Hope that helps

[Noggin]

Perfect Martin. Thanks very much. This is how we played it so glad to know we were doing it correctly.

[martin goddard]

Good news!