Regarding the argument we had last night please refer to the top of page 43 (small rulebook) under the heading "Score to Hit"
"Select the easiest team to hit in the target platoon for each shooting team and use this team for all to hit rolls from that shooting team against the target platoon"
So as I was saying last night you pick the easiest target which in last nights case was in the open/short range. You then roll your to-hit dice and allocate hits. Allocating hits taking up a seperate part of the rules and is unrelated to the dice roll to hit, once you have hit it ceases to have an actual score (ie 4, 5, 6) just becomes "A hit"
To clarify for everyone else what happened last night (simplified) was that 2 shermans where shooting at 3 panzers. 2 of the panzers were at short range 1 at long. The tank at long range was through side armour so was obviously the preferred target. In order to hit the long range, side armour tank it was decided that the score needed was 5's and to hit the front armour short range tank it was 4's. The Us general was instructed to roll to hit against that specific target (as agreed by both the US & Nazi generals with me standing in the back ground ranting
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My understanding is the dice roll to hit should have been 4's all round (short range in the open) and then after hitting on 4s the first hit should have been allocated to operational tanks within 16 inches and then operational tanks outside 16 inches even though he is at long range and technically couldn't be hit by score to hit of 4's.
My general interpretation goes:
From shooting team find the easiest to hit target in the target platoon
Roll dice count number of hits.
Allocate hits (with no reference to what score was rolled to achieve a hit).
So any other thoughts?
Daniel?
