Jumping down and Movement

[pixelante]

Scenario: a model climbs a 2" wall that is at best 1/2" wide at the top and then opts to jump down for free.

Question: when the model is placed at the base of the wall is the lateral movement required to clear the wall included as movement?

This is for a model with 5" movement so if the movement is included the model has moved 5" climbing and crossing the wall to jump down. If not then the model has 1" of movement left correct?

If the model only had 4" movement would its move end at the top of the wall or would it get a free 1" move from jumping down?

[Tokaji]

No, it isn't counted in that case. Normally, yes, it is, but when the distance on top of the thing climbed is smaller than the width of the base, it just gets absorbed. Part of climbing is that when you're done climbing, the model is placed right on the edge of the top of the terrain directly above where it climbed. So in this case, you'd have 1" of movement left.

[Twisted Metal]

Yeah I would have no issues with climbing over and dropping right down. Also becarefu about saying "jumping". Jumping is its own action...

Speaking of which has anyone ever actually jumped in this game? I cant think of a single instance where I spent the AP to actually jump.

[pixelante]

Falling then. As to your question the jumping rule just doesn't work so no one uses it. It should be free and part of the regular movement with the only stipulation is that the model can only jump half of its movement.

[CRC]

The problem with Jump is that it's a (2) action to move 1/2 Wk. That's too much. It should be a (1) action.

Game designers seem to frequently underestimate how bad 1/4 speed is. I've seen it come up in a couple different wargames, and players always treat it as impassable. (in fact, in one case an opponent whined about how it was worse than impassible, because one of his units fled into 1/4 speed terrain, and then had to spend an entire round walking out of it.)

[Tokaji]

I never even learned that jump was a 2 action until I got the rulebooks for myself. It was just house-ruled from the beginning.

[BC3]

Agreed. Jump should be either 1 AP or 2 AP for your full Wk. At least with your full walk you would have gotten off a rather impressive jump for your activation.