Last night I was playing on the outdoor map that came with the Fantastic Four Starter Set (I'm a newb ).
Anyways, when dealing with the force fields (denoted by thick orange lines), does the little grey thing at the ends of the force field still block line of fire? My friend said I didn't have line of sight, OR at the very least, that it counted has hindering terrain, so he got the +1 to his defense.

I assumed it was just artwork, for the following reasons:

A. All different terrain is surrounded by some color of line (red, green, ect).
B. No where else on the map is there terrain that only takes up half a square.

Here are some pictures of the map in question for clarification.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6462/84867660.jpg

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8489/78650142.jpg

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/183/91670559.jpg

Thanks in advance for any help!

Yes, you had LoF (Line of Fire) just fine, and no those are not any kind of terrain as you noted. All terrain has some kind of colored lines around it, which that clearly doesn't. Your friend should not have gotten any kind of hindering terrain bonus.

Thanks! That's what I figured, but I wanted some backup, ya know.

No problem.

Oh BTW, welcome to the wonderful world of Hero Clix in general (your new addiction, let me assure you ), and HC Realms specifically.

Yeah man.... now you are stuck. Good luck and welcome!

Thanks for the warm welcome and prompt reply!

On a funny note, the person who was questioning the line of sight still questions. LOL. I said the cat who answered had like 6000 posts......so you have to know your stuff!

Just for posterity, is there a rulebook quote or something I could toss at him? He says it could go either way, and I say it's definitely just artwork.

It's more the absence than the presence of something. Hindering terrain is delineated by green boundary lines. The markings in question are not surrounded by green boundary lines.

From p. 11 of the 2010 Core Rulebook:

Thanks, that is perfect. Sorry for sounding ungrateful for the original answer, because I'm not.

You guys are great! Off to play!

Dude, I just loved your kid-like squiggly lines on the pictures. That made me laugh.

Ya should have seen the look on my friend's face when I pulled the camera out during the game to photograph the map.