Gone to Ground

[Andrew T]

Afternoon Mark

Could you just clarify the Gone to Ground rule for my nugget brain please?

The rule states that units attacking a Gone to Ground unit suffer a -1d6 modifier to their attack. I can interpret that in 3 way:

1. The attacker rolls 1 fewer attack dice e.g. a unit with 4 attacks would only roll 3;
2. The number of attacks are reduced by a random amount determined by the roll of a D6 e.g. a unit with 4 attacks would roll 1-6 fewer attacks as per the dice roll;
3. The To-Hit value is increased by a random amount determined by the roll of a D6 e.g. a Gone to Ground unit in the open would normally be hit on a 4+ but this is increased depending on the roll of the dice.

I think that option 1 makes most sense. Or am I overthinking it and have got it completely wrong?

Cheers

[Big Insect]

OPTION 1 is the right answer.
If your attack value is 4 (dice) and your target is Gone to Ground, you remove 1 dice, so you are just rolling 3.
Cheers
Mark

[Andrew T]

Hi Mark

Yeah thought so. That's me overthinking stuff again.

Cheers

[Big Insect]

The 'Commander' rules offer a variety of ways to achieve similar effects.

Deducting attack dice is the most common one.

The other is by increasing the score needed to hit a target ( so a +4 goes up to a +5 for example).
However, increasing the 'score to hit' is capped @ 6. So that nothing becomes impossible to hit ( as long as you role 6s), just very difficult.

Deducting dice can, however, result in a '0' factor & so that is a no opprtunity to hit situation, but this is generally rare (or realistic in certain circumstances).

Cheers
Mark