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General Category => Rules Questions => Topic started by: captain_crusader on February 17, 2008, 01:59:21 PM

Title: placing a BUA on a hill
Post by: captain_crusader on February 17, 2008, 01:59:21 PM

A BUA on a hill gets placed when the hill is, but does it still need to be adjoining a battlefield edge or astride/in contact with a road ? which would mean it has to be in contact with a battlefield edge as roads are placed after hills ? or does it just obey the placement rules for hills ?

Title: Re: placing a BUA on a hill
Post by: landmeister on February 18, 2008, 08:57:17 AM

Good question. I'd say you place the BUA once the hill has been placed. It sounds like an easy way to avoid placement rules for BUAs.  :o

Title: Re: placing a BUA on a hill
Post by: captain_crusader on February 19, 2008, 08:17:08 PM

So I should place a hill, then the BUA as a separate piece of terrain ?

does this count as 1 or 2 FE ?

Does this mean I can only place a BUA on a hill that is already placed adjacent to a road/table edge ?

or if I do not place the hill/BUA next to a table edge I have to put a road by/through it when roads get placed....?

The reason I am asking this is the piece of terrain in question has been modelled by me as a BUA on a hill ! and a difficult hill at that...if only I had modelled it on the flat life would be so much easier....

Title: Re: placing a BUA on a hill
Post by: Geoff Pearson on February 19, 2008, 09:44:12 PM

Quote from: captain_crusader on February 19, 2008, 08:17:08 PM

So I should place a hill, then the BUA as a separate piece of terrain ?

You would dice to place the hill you want to place the BUA on.
So you could not dice for 3 hills then choose which one to place the BUA on.

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does this count as 1 or 2 FE ?

The hill and BUA count there separate FE costs

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Does this mean I can only place a BUA on a hill that is already placed adjacent to a road/table edge ?
or if I do not place the hill/BUA next to a table edge I have to put a road by/through it when roads get placed....?

No it would be where the hill ended up after being dice for, even in the enemies deployment zone!

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The reason I am asking this is the piece of terrain in question has been modelled by me as a BUA on a hill ! and a difficult hill at that...if only I had modelled it on the flat life would be so much easier....

Yes :-)
Any chance you could post a photo of your BUA Its always nice to see terrain people have made.
Can you put TF or PF round it?
Best Regards
Geoff

Title: Re: placing a BUA on a hill
Post by: captain_crusader on February 20, 2008, 10:21:48 AM

will sort out some photos and post them....

Thanks, I am much clearer about when and how to place it now.