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Dash move, enemy not reacting when ending movement

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:09 am
by rf900
I have found some strange situations in which using the dash move on an unnoticed unit that ends up the move in a cover tile next to an enemy unit. In these cases it appears that the enemy does not react fire against it. Even other enemy units that then are able to fire do not do it. If you fire then with that unit then the enemy will react as normal.

I think it is not intended to work this way, reading the description of the action.
Dash
- Infantry that have not fired in the current turn may Dash two tiles (non-diagonal) at twice the normal movement cost.
- If the unit was not visible to the enemy before dashing, it will not be reacted to by other units on the first tile of movement.
- The unit may be reacted to normally by eligible units after the second tile of movement.
- The unit is considered to have moved fast after attempting a Dash.

Re: Dash move, enemy not reacting when ending movement

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:01 pm
by AndrewGardner
If the second tile of movement of a dash leaves the dasher in a cover tile adjacent to an enemy infantry (or equivalently, not in a cover tile), they should draw reaction fire at that point as if they had just moved into that tile normally from both the adjacent infantry and any other units in range. If you are seeing different behaviour, please provide more details. There are situations where infantry can have less than a 100% chance of reacting to an adjacent moving infantry unit, but it is not typical.

If a previously unseen dasher is interrupted after the first tile of dash movement, it will not draw reaction fire immediately. Performing any further action that would have drawn reaction fire normally will do so at that point. Enough AP is refunded to an interrupted dashing unit to complete the move normally.

Re: Dash move, enemy not reacting when ending movement

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 6:33 am
by rf900
I think it is the first case but I will try to do a quick sample with the editor to test it.

Re: Dash move, enemy not reacting when ending movement

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 1:51 pm
by rf900
Did a small map to check it and seems to work fine, it may have been I did the second case in the game.