Tornade wrote:
well maybe this will answer the original question
Line of fire: the observer can always fire at all the planes without checking for planes hiding other planes. The only exception is when there is no deflection between to two planes and another planes stays exactly in the middle. This can only happens when the enemy plane is exactly behind to plane with the observer and there is no deflection.
i lifted that quote from the game rules posted on the site...
personally in the case of this particular game i think that line of fire should be blocked...since there is no deflection between the target plane...the blocking plane and the firing plane... perhaps that exception was not programmed into the game system
i am fighting Sajami in the same scenario right now and if maybe some of the other players would help out instead of hanging back while i do all the work...well...i am still hopeful to nail him
I believe that what is occurring is the result less of a “bug” than a “rules design flaw” in the youplay.it site.
First, remember that the rules used on this site are not the GDW Blue Max rules. They are modifications of those rules. Note the first item on the complete English rules page: "Foreword: In this page you can read are the original rules of the board games. Even if we tried to keep the online version of the game very similar to the original one, we slightly modified some rules to adapt them to the online game and other rules are not implemented (Observer, Jamming, Lewis gun and Campaign rules).” (I would strongly disagree with the use of the term “slight” in this statement, but that is a subject for a separate discussion.)
The source of the problem under discussion appears to come from the (unnecessary) hack job done by this site on the Observer rule (note that the quote by Tornade is not found in any of the GDW Blue Max rules). Further, this site implemented the replacement Observer rule, and only that rule, ignoring the existing Combat rule, which eliminated the possibility of this situation occurring.
The second paragraph (in the rules on this site, the fourth paragraph in the Blue Max 2nd Ed. Rules) says; “An aircraft may not fire through a hex containing another aircraft, although the player may fire at the target of his choice in a hex containing several aircraft, both friendly and enemy.” (As an aside … the site apparently couldn’t resist editing the original GDW text, although the intent is the same.) Without the “Line of fire” addition (see Tornade’s quote), there was no problem. No aircraft could fire through another aircraft, whether it was a single-seater, or the observer in a two-seater.
Therefore, as the Combat rule is clearly a universal prohibition which overrides the Observer rule, neither the Nieuport nor the observer of the Bristol should have been able to fire at each. Some might classify this as a bug. I call it a design flaw. Regardless, the current implementation is in error.
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