From LOS Warmachine University
This Ground Pounder position is
not legal because Siege doesn't have LOS to the template.
Even though Siege has LOS to the colossal, the Ground Pounder position is
still not legal because Siege still doesn't have LOS to the template.
Even though the forest is gone, the Ground Pounder position is
still not legal because Siege still doesn't have LOS to the template.
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Rules Clarification : Ground Pounder (Edit)
- Short version:
- You need to have at least one tiny piece of the template in your LOS.
- Models of all sizes block your LOS when you're trying to place the template.
- But once the model is covered by the template, you get to attack it whether or not you have regular LOS to it.
Placing the template
- If you have a method of drawing LOS to the models that you're about to Ground Pound (such as them being a huge-base model, or you casting Mage Sight on them), that doesn't help at all with placing the template. You're essentially trying to get LOS to a point "on the table", not to a model. (Infernal Ruling)
- You need to be able to draw LOS to at least one point of the AOE. It doesn't need to be the centrepoint. This allows you to "shoot around the corners" of LOS-blocking terrain. (Infernal Ruling)
- Models of all base sizes block LOS to the template. (Infernal Ruling)
Making the attacks
- Ground Pounder does not target, so it can bypass stuff like Feign Death.
- Ground Pounder ignores concealment, but not cover.
- If you use Ground Pounder to "shoot around a corner" as described above, all models in the template will get attacked even if the terrain completely blocked LOS to them. (Locked thread)
- Unlike normal AOE attacks, all hits are direct hits, so your opponent can use stuff like Sacrificial Pawn on any of them.
- Although it uses the AOE template it's not actually an AOE attack, so the attacking model is considered the point of origin of the attack (for the purposes of stuff like Shield Wall).
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