Ok, so i've never really played with giants before, but i'm thinking about it this weekend. I've been reading over the rules, and i've come up with a question that the rules doesn't answer.

Lets say I have a giant figure with a wildcard team ability (there's at least one) with a batman ally on the team, or they're just thunderbolted, either way, the giant figure now has stealth. I know that grounded figures treat line of fire through terrain as normal, so the giant figure is in stealth. no question there. the question i want to ask, is what about when they move into adjacency? If they're ajacent for movement purposes two squares away, does that mean they have to stop, and still can't see the giant figure? If this is the case, what do they have to do to be able to attack the giant figure?

I know things like superman ally, or ultimates would negate something like this, but what about the rest of the shmoes out there?

thanks for any feedback.

Stealth has no effect on adjacency rules, and adjacency has nothing to do with line of sight (there is one situation dealing with giants and blocking terrain, but that's not what you're asking about).

To sum up, a figure that tries to go after a stealth giant will stop two squares away (normal giant adjacency) and then could not normally make a ranged attack against them (normal stealth rules) (barring, as you mentioned, Superman Ally/Ultimates/Trick Shot).

follow up question (don't laugh at this one please) if they have to stop, do they need to roll break away to move that one extra space? or can they do it automatically?

They would have to break away on a subsequent turn to move that one space closer.

(I think I might have a clue what you're playing this thursday )

They have to roll breakaway. (Barring powers that automatically breakaway, that wouldn't have had to stop anyway.)

If fail a break away roll, your movement is done, finito. You either take your action from where you are ( If you have a move and attack power) or end that action.

If you fail to break away into a close combat with a giant, you just kind of sit there two squares away, thusly.

Edit: Maybe I misread the question? Next turn, certainly you'd have to roll to break away once more, as stated above.

Just remember that Fliers do not need to stop movement when adjacent. This means that a flying Charger, such as Hawkman, can charge right in and wack your giant.

Thank you very much for asking this question, I waondering the very same thing as I put together a stealth team the other day. Then I put it out of my mind, I may have to remake that team now.

If you fail a breakaway, you may not make an attack courtesy of Charge/Running Shot (or HSS in the case of Constructs) The action ends.

(This is actually in the DR rulebook, IIRC)

DR rulebook Page 20:

Just to add this in there, and pre-emp a question.

Normally elevated figures, ona a building and such, can see over Stealthed foes to the figures behind them. But if that Stealthed figure is a Giant, then they can not see past them. It's a nifty little trick I've used with Andy & Colossal Boy in the past.

Not sure where you get that.

I can't find anywhere that states a Giant character blocks LOF to/from an elevated character to a grounded figure. I've looked in the Rulebook, E&C, and FAQs.

However, I do concede that I may have missed something. If so, please enlighten me.

EDIT:
From the DR rulebook, page 50:

Basically it's following the same priciple that Giant figures block LOF to any figure on the opposite side of them.

So even out of Stealth an elevated figure is unable to target figures that have the LOF drawn through the square containing a Giant.

It's just compounded because now you are unable to see the Giant as well.

That's OK, I found it. Page 37:
That was what I was looking for, a reference, not "that's the way it is".

I also noticed that a Giant does not nessesarily block LOF from an elevated character to another elevated character (for example, from one building to another), but Colossal figs do....

Doesn't your previous post
"A giant character and a character on elevated terrain draw line of fire and make ranged combat attacks against each other as if they were both elevated."

contradict that? If a giant and figure on elevated terrain treat each other as both elevated, the elevated giant would block LOF across it to other elevated terrain.