Inarah Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Seems to me they should be able to just go right over walls and fences without hindrance. Can flyers engage in melee with other flyers? Is there any method by which models on the ground can attack a flying model? Spells and arrows maybe? What about Reach? What if a model is on elevation 3 terrain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdripley Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Flying models ignore terrain of every type - the terrain is on the ground and the model is in the air. The rules make no provision for very tall buildings/mountains, I presume for ease of play. If it's terrain it doesn't matter for the movement or LOS of a flying model. Fliers may engage in melee with other fliers. Imagine a layer cake - the lower layer is for burrowed models. They never have LOS for ranged/magic attacks to anybody, but can freely move on their lower layer of cake, and may fight each other. The middle layer is for regular models on the ground, and they can move about and shoot subject to the terrain that's on the table and the other models on the table. And the top layer is for the models that are flying. LOS is always unrestricted and the only things their bases may interact with (as in getting into b2b with) is other fliers. Models on the ground may shoot using RAV (although they suffer -1 RAV for doing so) and casters may use spells on fliers (with no penalty to CP). If you don't have any archery, hopefully you have a caster who can cast Winglock to bring the fliers down to the ground where your soldiers can beat them up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inarah Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 That was my next question... do flyers have to land to attack models on the ground? I see that for Swift Attack they do not, but for a regular melee attack do they have to be on the ground? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Landt Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 That was my next question... do flyers have to land to attack models on the ground? I see that for Swift Attack they do not, but for a regular melee attack do they have to be on the ground? Yes. As per the rules on page 36, while Flying, models can only engage in melee with other flyers (except flying swift attacks, as you point out). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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