vu sur games squad par Ole Boe
[color=red]Originally Posted by bebakken
I have no problem with what you're saying. However, there is some trouble with the mechanics of applying the 1/2 MP Road Rate to a Narrow Street. [/color]
I don't think there is any trouble...
NRBH, but I believe the 1/2 MP Road Rate is 1/2 MP for entering a hex while crossing a road hexside. VBM is a little bit different mechanic; you travel along the hexside, rather than cross it.
You are correct - the old road rules were written to distinguish movement on and off the road, and with normal roads, you must cross a road hexside to be on it. However, when using VBM along a narrow street, you're clearly "on" the road, as per B31.11: "A unit Bypassing along a Narrow Street hexside is always assumed to be on the road within its hex". To say that a vehicle that's clearly moving on the road cannot use road rate because it's not crossing a hexside is IMHO to read it far to literally, especially since an AFV will have crossed a hexside as part of the VBM many times.
But perhaps the biggest stumbling block is how one would expend "half the normal Bypass MP". "Normally", there isn't a road involved. "Normally", the non-obstacle portion is Open Ground.
I think you're stumbling in your own feet now. Its of course "half the normal Bypass MP" of that hexside not "half the normal Bypass MP" of hexes you normally bypass on other boards. Or are you saying that you can ignore the additional cost for smoke etc. as well, since there normally isn't smoke in the hexes you bypass? Clearly not.
As Ole Boe said, the road is the non-obstacle terrain. What is the "normal Bypass MP" for a road, assuming a BU vehicle? Well?
There isn't one, because it's never been encountered before. Now, we know what the "normal" MP rate is for a Road... I guess that would be doubled for Bypass, but we have to extrapolate that.
D2.4 says "The MP cost of VBM is double that of the hex's non-obstacle terrain (usually Open Ground)" and B3.41 "A vehicle may cross any road hexside at a cost of 1/2 MP ". Yes, you will have to calculate 2 * 1/2 * 1/2 by yourself. I don't see the problem.
The wording in B31.11 is utterly ridiculous. (snip...) So every movement reference on a Narrow Street should specifically address the road, and not cause one to circumambulate through two chapters to figure it out.
I see yopur point, like many other ASL rules, it could be written clearer if it had been written less general, but I guess they sticked with the 1/2 of normal to include things like smoke, elevation change, BU/CE etc.
donc c'est bien 1/2 MP pour un véhicule CE dans une narow street.