Laying smoke

[ghalgor]

hi all

Under v5 of the rules, how many times can a unit successfully lay smoke in one impulse. The rules state if successful you can still move but with a -1 MF and if unsuccessful gain an ops complete marker. But I can’t find any limitations if continually being successful.

This came up in my game last night as I layed smoke, moved (-1 MF) was successful on another smoke attempt (I played this as another -1MF) then couldn’t move any further as I had run out of MF.

Thanks in advance

 

[Stéphane Tanguay]

In previous editions, you would get an ops complete marker after your first attempt in one turn, regardless if you were successful or not. In V5.0, a change was proposed to allow units that successfully layed smoke to move (to take advantage of it (albeit with a -1 MP). If you don't take advantage of this opportunity, you are then marked ops complete. See also the first paragraph under 4.1 in V5.0 of the rules (page 28):
Units that ..., attempt to lay smoke (7.0) ... are marked with an Ops Complete marker