So this was asked in the rumble questions thread by another gent and I thought it was interesting enough to pose to all of you. A friendly model starts its order in base to base with with an enemy designated trooper. An enemy trooper sees this order and shoots the opposing trooper. Sadly he misses because of the -6 for engagement, and kills the designated target. Did the enemy trooper just shoot a civilian to death, ending up losing the game?
I'm going to say no based on this form the Designated Target rule in the ITS PDF. "In some scenarios, the enemy HVTs are considered enemy troopers instead of Neutral Civilians, so they can be targeted by Attacks."
It would be a jerk way to deny them the datatracker bonus points provided the enemy unit doesn't wound the DT too.
.... *expands Kuang Shi tactics* In all seriousness probably needs to be some ruling against this or Kuang Shi and Gaki are going to be really stupid on these missions with "tactical asset denials" after you score your own kill with a Datatracker.
sorry, if you end up shooting your own designated target, while it may be an enemy trooper to them, it still is a civilian from your point of view, so you shot a civilian, right?
Since the Designated Target is an enemy trooper for your opponent but it is still your HVT for you and a civilian for that purpose, that attack becomes invalid. However, the question is, if you are allowed to shoot into the close combat at all, since you could hit the civilian. This would be the same thing like templates where you have the chance to wound the civilian.
Define "deny bonus" here. Killing a civilian results in losing the game, losing all objective points and giving your opponent 2 extra points. As long as your opponent has sourced at least 3 points elsewhere, that's a major victory to them, and a dead Designated Target probably means they already have those 3 other points.
