Setting up the Battlefield

THE RULER, RANGES, AND COVER
Ranges are exclusive. You can’t use a direct fire weapons system at hand to hand range (that is, at a distance of only 1 ruler unit), nor an artillery weapon system at hand to hand or direct fire range (that is, at any distance within the length of the ruler).
Measure the physical space between the mobile frames at their closest. If the ruler can touch both mobile frames, it’s direct fire range; if it can’t, it’s artillery range.
Any structure on the battlefield is cover if it’s 3 bricks or more high, except stations. All standing mobile frames count as cover.

A mobile frame is in cover against an attacker if:
» it is within hand to hand range of cover
» the cover is between it and its attacker, in whole or in part

The only cover that matters is cover within arm’s reach of the defender. If there’s cover anywhere else between the
attacker and defender, but not within hand to hand range of the defender, ignore it.
Don’t consider line of sight, only the defender’s cover and the range of the attack.