 Re: Mortars
to further elaberate on what has already been mentioned this is the scoop. In old rules G48" ment that you had to actually guess the distance from your mortar crew to the intended target. So lets say you are playing on a 4'x6' board and you deploy in the center of your deployment zone. An enemy squad is half the board away so you would guess 24" measure the distance, place the template and then roll scatter.
With the new rules (and it looks as if they will stay the same in 5th ed.) they work like this.
Pic an enemy unit and place your template. Once that is done measure range, if the center of the template is with in the range (in this case 48") than you get to roll the scatter dice and A) 1 d6 if you have line of sight to target or B) 2 d6 and pick highest if you can't draw line of sight to target. Therefore the Guess in Guess range weaponery means nothing in the new rules.
I love Mortars, reguardless if they are in your comand squad or a Heavey Weapons Platoon. I personally only take them in Comand Squads, I don't have room in my doctrines to spend on a heavy weapons spot.
That is my two cents,
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