Larger Planets, Gas Giants and Direct Fire

[JimDauphinais]

This question pertains to the planets found on the map panels that come with Klingon Attack.

1) Is it correct that a hex that even partially contains part of a planet is considered a planet hex?

2) Is direct fire allowed along a hexside that separates a planet hex and a non-planet hex? For example, is direct fire allowed between hexes 1004 and 1106 on the small hex side of the Gas Giant Map Panel that comes with Klingon Atttack?

[mjwest]

Please check this Terrain Questions thread. It has the answers to these questions.

Which, oddly enough, is currently the thread immediately below this one ...

[JimDauphinais]

Mike -- Thanks. I found it, but it is not easy as the question and your answer are very far apart from each other in that thread. I had previously performed a search of all Rules Question threads using the search function but missed it. I can see why I did. For the lurkers, the answers to my questions are (1) yes and (2) yes.

[phul]

Just so I can make sure I've wrapped my pee brain around this...

Fire down the hex spine of a planet hex (of any size planet) is open, fire through a planet hex (of any size planet) is not (even if it doesn't touch the 'planet art').

Did I get that right?

[mjwest]

Yes.

Any given hex is either "all-planet" or "all-space". (Of course, "all planet" could be an atmosphere hex in the case of the really big planets.)

But, yes, you got it.