Re: Fire vs hand-to-hand on order cards

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Apr 23, 2014; 9:59am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Fire-vs-hand-to-hand-on-order-cards-tp7580735p7580756.html

Haste wrote

The Space Crusade rules page 6 "Marine player's turn" say:
He may move and fire each miniature in a turn.

The Space Crusade rules page 14 "Hand-to-Hand combat" say:
Instead of firing, a miniature may attack using hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore there is no difference between fire and hand-to-hand.

I guess it's all down to interpretation really, but I would argue that the rule book is describing what you can do in a 'normal' turn and the Order Cards override and change what you can do in a normal turn.

 

Haste wrote

But in this case the "Close Assault!" order card would be useless in comparaison to "Fire!".

Exactly and it specifically mentions Hand-to-hand as being different to shooting

I think it's also worth pointing out that the Order Card is after all called "Fire!" which implies shooting (as opposed to being called something more general like "Attack!") and of course "Close Assault!" has implications of Close Combat in it's name with the word 'close' being used were as 'Assault' can be taken to mean an attack at range or in hand-to-hand - but I think that's enough trying to break-down and read into the meanings of the titles for now.

"By Sections!" is another card were similar issues could crop-up too

Of course this is just how my group does it - it's up to you how you interpret the rules in your games and as long as you're consistent and all your players agree there shouldn't be any problem