Splitting Burst in ARO with MA4/5

Just wanted to check something we stumpled upon today.
The more eyes to take a look at this the better.

Till today I was operating under the assumption you simply can not split Burst in ARO.
However that seems to be wrong.
Supressive Fire, Fireteam 3 Man Bonus, Total Reaction and Neurokinetics specifically mention you have to direct the full Burst against the same Target in ARO.

There doesn't seem to be a restriction like this for troops with B2 in CC regarding AROs.

Burst
In the Active Turn, each time a troop declares a CC Attack, it can make as many attacks as the Burst (B) value of its CC Weapon. However, in the Reactive Turn, the Burst value is 1 but can be modified after that by some Special Rules or Skills.

During the declaration of a CC Attack, the player can distribute a number of attacks equal to the Burst value among one or more targets, as long as all targets are valid (in base to base contact with the attacker).

So it looks like you can split B with MA4/5 in ARO, as long as you split the B in between Active Troopers (because AROs need to be taken against Active models).
This would allow to take normal rolls against Coordinated CC Attacks, Fireteam CC Attacks and G:Sync/G:Servant + Controller CC Attacks, while also opposing the CC Attack in a FTF.

Can someone find anything that makes splitting B in ARO against multiple Active Models impossible?
Thank you for your help.

 

Unfortunately that isn't quite what the rules say.

Each time the Active Player activates a trooper by spending an order, each eligible enemy gets one single ARO, regardless of the number of Skills the Active Player declares during that Order.

AROs must choose the trooper activated by the Order as their target.

There are multiple "Active Troopers" in our case and the only thing that seems to prevent splitting Burst in between them is a specific clause that only shows up for BS Special Skills and 3 Man Link Bonus.
There is no such thing as a rule that straight up prevents you from declaring an ARO against more than one Trooper, although it would be great if you could find one.

 

Thanks, for the record I don't think it was intended to split B in ARO at all. It would be much easier to just include that in the ARO rules instead of mentioning it across 5 BS references just to forget CC AROs exist.

 

Gotta disagree on that, "The Active Trooper" can be a lot of things at once.
Which is the core problem, a lot of people try to argue "The Active Trooper" is the guy who triggered the ARO, when in reality there are just multiple Active Troopers and the Rules forgot to mention that is possible.
Which for instance gets tricky if people in a Fireteam don't have/are not using Stealth vs a Hacker.
There isn't any restriction that you have to use the ARO you got against the Trooper that triggered it, the ARO rules only mention "Active Trooper".
So the ARO generated by a Celestial Guard walking through a Interventor's ZOC could be used against the Crane next to him despite using Stealth.

Thankfully that is a rare interaction and so you don't really have to argue on the table about that.

 

That cancels Stealth anyway so the interaction doesn't occur and there is no discussion.
Or what do you mean?

 

Core Links with Sixth Sense L2.
But you seem to refer to the flipside.

That never worked. Your non stealthed dude triggers an ARO and the Link Leader Hacker is an Active Trooper you can use that ARO against.
Stealth doesn't prevent targeting and if someone else triggers the ARO you have every right to use that ARO against the Link Leader Hacker as he is an active trooper.

 

No we don't. That's common sense applied, as usual with Infinity rules you'll find someone claiming Stealth prevents ARO declarations or some other interpretation trumps logic.
Nothing official about that.