Smoke and Embarked Troops

[River Black]

Hopefully a few simple questions with a simple answers.

 

If a vehicle pops smoke can a unit that is embarked on the transport fire out of the fire point? Also is the firing from a fire point resolved at the same time as the firing from the vehicle? Does the embarked unit have to fire at the same thing as the transport? I guess what all of these questions boil down to is… does the transport count as being part of the embarked unit?

 

Im sorry if this has been answered before. I checked the last 20 pages and couldn’t find an answer and as you could imagine a search involving smoke launchers really didn’t work to well.

[Hfran Morkai]

From my understanding the embarked unit cannot fire if smoke is triggered as the unit would be firing blind because smoke is triggered in the movement phase. The way I play the game is the embarked unit has to fire at the same target and I resolve targetting seperately. However I'm its one of the grey areas in the game.

[F3d3x]

They are two separate units, they can both shoot at two different targets even while embarked, and they can shoot after the transport pops smoke.

[ShinyRhino]

There is nothing prohibiting the embarked unit from firing when a vehicle has deployed smoke. Embarked units are separate from the transport, and each can fire at a different target. Refer to the Maine Rulebook FAQ on GW's website for a hardcopy of the ruling.

[Frosty the Pyro]

Nothing grey about it smoke only effect the triggering vehicle, the unit inside is not the triggering vehicle. The unit inside is a different unit, different units may fire at different targets. The order units fire at is determined by the controling player (though all models in said unit fire simultainously)