NEW RULES

The following are unofficial house rules, additional rules, and rules suggestions that you might want to use in your games. Make sure that you and your opponent agree on their use beforehand though.

“Take Cover!!!”

Many army's tactical doctrine uses `suppressive fire' to keep their enemy from moving or firing, allowing other units to advance or flank their enemy's position. Soldiers also know that it is sometimes better to `hit the dirt' and minimize their chances of becoming a casualty, rather than standing in the open with “guns-a-blazing”. The following optional rule is intended to address the above situations.

When unit is selected as a target by an enemy unit, the unit has the option to “Take Cover!!!”, and hopefully survive the incoming attack.

After the enemy has declared his targets and checked his range, but before he has rolled to hit, the targeted unit may declare that they are “taking cover”; models drop to the ground, dive for cover and generally try to make themselves as small a target as possible. This gives the targeted unit a +2 to any cover saves they it is allowed (e.g. a 5+ cover save becomes a 3+ cover save).

If they are not in cover, then they receive a 5+ cover save.

Taking Cover cannot modify a Cover save to better than 2+ regardless of any other bonuses.

Any unit “taking cover” will not be able to move, fire their weapons, or initiate an assault in their next turn.

If they are assaulted, they will not benefit from being in cover and the attacking enemy may strike first. This is because they are not in any position to fire or defend themselves from an assault, as they have opted for a purely defensive posture.

Models that may normally strike first (Banshee masks or for whatever reasons) lose their first strike ability when "taking cover".

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