Beneath the leaves wording and aura

[joe caelli]

The beneath the leaves rule from crypsis corps reads:

" Beneath the leaves: While this model is within 3 of severe, hazardous, and/or concealing Terrain, enemy models treat the area within 3 as having those same traits"

While the group has agreed this means while the crypsis is within 3" of terrain with those traits the area within 3" of crypsis has those traits for enemy models; a question arose wether it could be read that the area within 3" of the terrain with those traits is treated as having those traits. eg. A cypsis sidles up to a 50mm pit trap marker and now the area within 3" of that pit trap is also hazardous and severe. Effectively making a 5" area thats a pit trap.

As  said we've landed that the 3" applies to the crypsis not the terrain; but I had a hard time describing why. Could someone give a concise reason why it applies to the model and not the terrain? trying to work on some rules comprehension.

Is it because auras ALWAYS effect only the model? or is it in the wording of the rule? Is  there a specific phrase that gets used when the terrain is being effected? 

 

Finally, why is the phrase 'enemy models treat the area within 3 as having' used when the rule could read 'enemy models treat 3 as having' ?

[PiersonsMuppeteer]

Since the second clause doesn't state a different object from the model with Beneath the Leaves, the generating object is the model with Beneath the Leaves. Malifaux Mining Law on Prospectors would be an example of a model generating an  from an object other than itself.

The phrase is like that simply for clarity/ease-of-use. With it, you don't have to have the Aura rules memorized in order to know how to resolve the effect.

[solkan]

5 hours ago, joe caelli said:

Finally, why is the phrase 'enemy models treat the area within 3 as having' used when the rule could read 'enemy models treat 3 as having' ?

It's partly a matter of tradition, and partly a matter that 'treat X as having' would be like saying 'treat within X" as having'--the effect has to have something to apply to, and if it's applying to an area (rather than the things inside that area) it needs to say so.

And it also avoids having to answer various questions like 'How tall is an aura?'

[joe caelli]

thanks! looking at the prospectors rule makes it much easier to parse.