OBA

[leeboy24]

Can you use all your oba factors in the same action sequence, bombarding multiple hexes?

[campsawyer]

Can you use all your oba factors in the same action sequence, bombarding multiple hexes?

Yes, but only three may combined in any attack and they may not combined with onboard artillery.

[Poor Yorek]

Can you use all your oba factors in the same action sequence, bombarding multiple hexes?

Yes, but only three may combined in any attack and they may not combined with onboard artillery.

I tend to disagree with campsawyer's interpretation insofar as the OP's question regarded only OBA. Rule 9.2 generally presumes 1 OBA factor attacks one hex, but then 9.3 allows two or three OBA fire values to be combined into one attack. So I believe the interpretation is that there can only be a single OBA attack (i.e. only targeting a single hex) in any given impulse, but up to three OBA factors can be used to make this single attack.

Nothing in 9.2 or 9.3 seems to suggest (note my caution, I'm not being dogmatic) that one can activate three OBA factors and fire at three separate hexes.

Of course, for on-board artillery, one can target as many hexes as one has bombardment fire units activated.

[leeboy24]

Thanks

[Poor Yorek]

Thanks

Just to emphasize that the language in 9.2 and 9.3 could have been less ambiguously written. Perhaps note that if you go with Camp's interpretation (if I understood him properly) OBA is much stronger - allowing one to pummel a single hex two or three times sequentially in a single activation before the opponent can activate to attempt a recovery; with my interpretation, OBA is weaker as one must use up an activation each time one wishes to attack a given hex, both giving the opponent an opportunity to recovery and, of course, tempting the Fog-of-War gods.

Good shooting!

[Michael Murphy]

I asked this very question many years ago. The official answer is that you can fire up to 3 OBA allottments at one (and only one) target hex. While the old FAQ may be history, this question survives in the annotated rules here at PG-HQ.

[campsawyer]

I asked this very question many years ago. The official answer is that you can fire up to 3 OBA allottments at one (and only one) target hex. While the old FAQ may be history, this question survives in the annotated rules here at PG-HQ.

Mike, where is this located as I did not find this in the annotated rules.

Poor, as for your interpretation, I general play with just targeting the combine modules, but nothing in the rules says that you can only have three and a single target. I would also add in looking at this from the artillery units on the board, multiple artillery units can be activated by a leader and fire at different targets, so why can't off board.

[JayTownsend]

>The official answer is that you can fire up to 3 OBA allottments at one (and only one) target hex.

That is correct! You also fire at separate targets besides being grouped together for one hex. Rule 9.2: Unless scenario instructions say otherwise, EACH offboard artillery factor available in a scenario my fire once per turn at ANY hex on the board containing spotted unit(s) (it has unlimited range).

See example under rule 9.3:

Example: The scenario instructions give the American player an OFF-map artillery value of "3 x 20." These may be combined into one 60-value bombardment, one 40 and one of 20, or three separate bombardmants of 20. They may not be combined with any ON-board units.

[Shad]

I think the question we've uncovered, to two different resolutions, is if you have 6 x 20 and activate your OBA are you firing 3 x 20 now with 3 x 20 on another activation, or are you shooting your entire 6 x 20 wad with the proviso that you can only dump 3 of those one the head of one poor sucker?

[JayTownsend]

Groups of three (MAX) each activation but all OBA gets to fire once per turn if the player desires. Same target if you want to!

So all six could fire on the same turn, just not the same activation, at whatever combination of targets they want to, under spotting rules of course.