Post by medievalthomas on Dec 20, 2017 17:16:51 GMT
The key sentence is:
"A flank or rear contact on an element providing rear support is treated as if on the supported element."
It means what it says. So whatever type of contact you have with the supporting element counts as if contact on the supported element. So if this type of contact would provide a -1 overlap modifier - it does. Bear in mind that you can only be overlapped once per flank.
Generally when Phil uses a word he means its dictionary definition. He rarely defines terms to have game meanings. We have to make them up ourselves (like Quick Kill). He never feels bound to express the same concept using the same words. So its rarely helpful to look around at other rules and try and project some meaning unto a different sentence based on some odd turn of phrase used elsewhere. It would be extremely helpful if we had terms such as Hard Flank (to represent front edge to flank contact), Flank (to represent a simple corner to corner overlap) and Friction Flank (to represent mutual flank contact), but we don't. So here we must apply the simpliest and clearest definition of contact - ie any touching except just corner to corner (and Joe thinks this should count too).
If it helps just pick up the element and put it in the same relative position with the supported element - if that creates an overlap than so be it.
TomT
"A flank or rear contact on an element providing rear support is treated as if on the supported element."
It means what it says. So whatever type of contact you have with the supporting element counts as if contact on the supported element. So if this type of contact would provide a -1 overlap modifier - it does. Bear in mind that you can only be overlapped once per flank.
Generally when Phil uses a word he means its dictionary definition. He rarely defines terms to have game meanings. We have to make them up ourselves (like Quick Kill). He never feels bound to express the same concept using the same words. So its rarely helpful to look around at other rules and try and project some meaning unto a different sentence based on some odd turn of phrase used elsewhere. It would be extremely helpful if we had terms such as Hard Flank (to represent front edge to flank contact), Flank (to represent a simple corner to corner overlap) and Friction Flank (to represent mutual flank contact), but we don't. So here we must apply the simpliest and clearest definition of contact - ie any touching except just corner to corner (and Joe thinks this should count too).
If it helps just pick up the element and put it in the same relative position with the supported element - if that creates an overlap than so be it.
TomT
