Op Fire vs. Pending Melee attack?

[Charlie Heckman]

Clarifying the Op Fire rules...

Assuming that a Squad starts a turn in an adjacent hex to one of my GO Squads, and the enemy wins Initiative... they can move into my hex and initiate Melee without any Op Fire opportunity by either my defending unit or any other friendly unit in LOS, correct?

Op Fire is triggered when an enemy unit spends MP in a hex and so no MP would be expended until they entered my defender's hex AND no fire is allowed into a hex with friendly units.

So given my starting premise, the only way to blast them before they enter melee is to win Initiative. Am I correct or missing something here?

There is no mechanism for the defender's about to be Melee'd to Op Fire as the attacker's enter their hex. Correct?

- Charlie

 

[Ty Snouffer]

That is about right. Enter a hex for Melee doesn't trigger OF. See the 2nd para of 8.0 in the 4.1 rules.

. . . there is no OF against the enemy units as it enters the Melee hex

 

[Barthheart]

You have it correct. Your only defence is to win the initiative.

 

[Charlie Heckman]

Thanks Gents, just wanted to verify the point.