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If there are 2 enemies. The closer one is in cover, and the one farther away has no cover, can you shoot either one? If yes, where can you find it in the rulebook if you can? My friend did a very good job of proving you have to shoot the nearest enemy unless you have accurate shot or sniper all because of my failure to find it.
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Don't have my rules book in front of me since I'm at work, but you are correct that you can attack either. You want to look in the rules book for something about how you can attack any enemy not in cover or the closest enemy in cover.
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We had the same issue at a recent Tournament, and consulted the rulebook, which says in the lower right hand corner of one of the diagrams on Choosing a Target that you can shoot any enemy without cover or the closest one in cover.
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Yes!! Thank You!!!!!
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Your friend may have proved he's a convicing speaker, but he certainly didn't prove anything about the correct rules.  Here's the basic choosing a target rules from the rulebook: 1 Line of Sight: The attacker must be able to see the enemy. See Line of Sight, below.
2 Cover: A character can’t target an enemy who has cover unless that enemy is the closest enemy. See Cover, below.
3 Adjacent Enemies: If enemies are adjacent to the attacker, it must target one of those enemies.Ignoring abilities the only way to eliminate a character from being a legal target is one of those three rules. Only #2 is specifically important to this question, but we'll cover all three. You generally start with #3. If there are adjacent enemies everyone else on the board is ignored. You must choose one of them. We'll assume no adjacent enemies. Next you check #1. You check LOS to all enemies and all of them you can see are potentially legal targets. Then you check #2 and start eliminating character in cover that aren't nearest by counting the number of squares to the nearest enemy. All characters in cover and further than the nearest enemy are eliminated. What that leaves you with is the nearest enemy in line of sight and all other enemies in line of sight without cover.
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Okay to help a layman understand this, here is my scenario.
I have Han Solo facing two Storm Troopers. All are in open ground with no cover and all three have line of sight to each other.
The First Storm Trooper is 5 squares away from Han Solo and the second Storm Trooper is 8 squares away from Han.
Does Han Solo have to target the Storm Trooper that is 5 squares away because he is the closet enemy? Or can he choose to target either one he wants, to make his attack, no matter which is nearest to him?
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See if you can eliminate each of them as a legal target...
Stormie 5 away.
1) Non adjacent when there's an adjacent enemy? NO
2) Missing line of sight? NO
3) In cover when not the nearest enemy? NO
So he's legal.
Now the Stormie 8 away.
1) Non adjacent when there's an adjacent enemy? NO
2) Missing line of sight? NO
3) In cover when not the nearest enemy? NO
So he's legal too.
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