A question arose last game: How is a grenade "trajectory" defined? Can you throw it from within an objective room (with a roof) through the open door to a point outside the room where you don't have LOF in a boomerang-like horizontal curve? Or does the curved trajectory only apply vertically, allowing you to lob grenades over intervening obstacles but not around them?
There is no grenade trajectory. Either you have Line of Sight, in which case the grenade is thrown in a straight line just like any other BS Attack, or you perform a Speculative Attack, in which case any legal trajectory is enough to qualify (in other words, as long as the target location isn't the inside of a completely closed room).
And as anybody playing for long enouph to know how the game plays with actual parabolic trajectories, will say you, the game plays far far better without them.
I kinda miss shadow zones. Made about half of our tables unplayable for grenades ... But I also miss "elevators" and the catch-all "activate" short skill.
Shadow zones bogged the game down. Activate and Elevators were useful rules to help make terrain pieces, such as overly tall buildings, playable. @Bostria Still want the scenery rules to come back.
To be honest, imagining a Domaru just slamming an E/M grenade straight through plaster and mortar kinda sells the spec fire that doesn't care about proper trajectories. The catch-all Activate was useful for those complicated tables with lots going on, but there's nothing preventing you from re-inventing the skill for those rare tables.
I was on some tournaments with so called "table-rules"; like -no placing on top of pillars in caves (signed with cute little markers that looked like traffic signs with a red cross above footprints) -in-house staircases that needed a short order per level. -short order to open a laser gate and another to close it again and so on.... i don´t see any problems with that. These are parts of the terrain and don´t come with any disadvantage for either player.
Plus smart grenades with a limited amount of mobility built in, grenades 180 years in the future are probably closer to semi-autonomous drones than the simple metal-wrapped explosives of the past century or so.
