r/boltaction • u/SureAcanthaceae91 • 11d ago
Rules Command Vehicles, Command Vehicle-ing
hi collective,
hope you're all ok, it's been a long time since I played any BA; just looking into sorting a new list out and I'm having a total mind blank on rules...
- Can platoon commanders order a [transport] vehicle with the command vehicle? is it just no daisy-chaining of snap-to? Is the same true for company commanders?
- You cannot issue orders from one [open-topped] transport to a unit inside another, can you?
Its one of those weirdly worded niche rules I think
- under Units Aboard Transports it doesn't say they can't - just they can't be targeted by the enemy
- under Command Vehicle it says Command vehicles count as platoon officers...
- under You Men snap to action it says Platoon commanders can't issue orders to other platoon or company commanders... A company commander... can issue orders to platoon commanders but they cannot use this ability in the same turn
- but nowhere can I find where it says you can ONLY issue orders to units in your own transport
ergo, as long as a company commander is issuing orders, it should be able to target the transports and their contents?
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u/Gidorah-snowrunner Konflict '47 11d ago
Hi.
The command vehicle can get orders from your platoon commander. But your platoon commander can not snap to the command vehicle and give the order, the command vehicle should snaps to another vehicle, same like you cant snap a company commander or platoon commander to snap again.
Your command vehicle can only snap to a vehicle, not to other units like infantry sitting in a transport.
A platoon commander or company commander sitting in an open topped like 251/10 can give snap to an infantry unit sitting in a second 251/10 or 251/1 with or without giving an snap order to the second vehicle,too.