Blast weapons and reactions?

[Laughingman]

Can you reaction fire or over-watch with blast weapons in HH 2.0?

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

Yes.

Edited no to yes as I was wrong

Edited August 29, 2022 by Altis
I was wrong

[General Zodd]

Yes you can. Barrage weapons can’t be used in reaction fire, and template weapons use the Wall of Death rule, but blasts are not mentioned in the reaction section as an exception.

A couple of people in this thread and elsewhere have confidently stated you can’t, but I think they’re getting confused with the Snap Shot rules, which do not allow Blast weapons to be fired.

Edited August 29, 2022 by General Zodd

[Gorgoff]

23 minutes ago, General Zodd said:

I think they’re getting confused with the Snap Shot rules

And with 1ed, of course. 

I was of the assumption as well before someone pointed out that now it is indeed possible to fire Overwatch with blast weapons.

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

Hold my hands up here yep I failed to double check the rules like i usually do and was remembering the old rules.

Thanks for helping me learn the new rules

[GodEmperorOfMankind]

2 hours ago, General Zodd said:

Yes you can. Barrage weapons can’t be used in reaction fire, and template weapons use the Wall of Death rule, but blasts are not mentioned in the reaction section as an exception.

A couple of people in this thread and elsewhere have confidently stated you can’t, but I think they’re getting confused with the Snap Shot rules, which do not allow Blast weapons to be fired.

Also I believe barrage weapons can fire, as long as its directly and not indirectly. 

Although which weapons have barrage and a minimum range that would let you do this I don't know

[General Zodd]

2 hours ago, Altis said:

Also I believe barrage weapons can fire, as long as its directly and not indirectly. 

Although which weapons have barrage and a minimum range that would let you do this I don't know

Yeah, that’s how I’ve interpreted it, the key thing is that you can’t react against a unit you don’t have LoS to, basically, which is fair. Though, as ever, they appear to have taken a fairly inelegant linguistic route to get to where they wanted to go!

Also, barrage weapons ignore their minimum range if they’re firing directly. Last sentence of the second rules paragraph on page 232. So you’re grand!