Ok I want to settle this for my friends and myself once and for all.

Can I attack a figure on lower terrain than myself?
Can I attack a figure on higher terrain than myself?
Does either scenario give one figure a bonus to anything?

Maybe.
Maybe.
Probably not.


You are very light on detail here. For example, are you talking about close or ranged combat attacks? Does either character have any powers or abilities that might be brought into play? Is there a ladder/stairwell invovled? And so on.

Please restate your question with the relevent information.

Every single answer, except the last, is ... it depends

Last first... no, you never get a bonus or penalty for attacking from different elevations

And now, the breakdown

Can I attack a figure on lower terrain than myself?
Ranged? Yes
Close? No, unless you have Leap/Climb and were given a close combat action or are on one of the elevation transition squares and so is your target

Can I attack a figure on higher terrain than myself?
Ranged? Yes
Close? No unless you have Leap/Climb and were given a close combat action or are a or or are on one of the elevation transition squares and so is your target

There may be more, based on special powers

Even the Last is 'it depends'... If you have the Kryptonian ATA then you get a plus one to your attack if you are on the highest level.

Be more specific and you'll get your answer.

not just kryptonian ata but there are a few characters that have sp's like jl52's hawkman so i would say that "never" is an overstatement but u won't usually get a bonus for attacking from a diff terrain

to attack from a diff terrain if everyone is regular size or smaller it would have to be ranged and the elevated would have to be on the edge and the lower would have to be within a 45% or less from the elevated's square. without having a map pattern to show it is difficult to explain but like drawing lof your target can not be in a square that is outside of the 90%


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this is crude but i hope it helps. e=elevated terrain a=elevated character L=regular elevation c=lof to and from elevated character

I stand by my statement, "Last first... no, you never get a bonus or penalty for attacking from different elevations"

I am assuming a vanilla statement there. There is no modifier for attacking high to low or low to high. Period.

The Kryptonian one has nothing to do with this. If the Kryptonian is on the same elevation as their target and it is the highest, they still get the bonus. That is not high to low or low to high, that is high to anywhere

Hawkman's SP. Okay, you have something there. I should have put "unless a special power specifically says otherwise"

But you are wrong on the Kryptonian one

i agreed with him without even reading the kryptonian ata but now that i have read it i must say that altho it can apply outside of this elevated situation, we are not "wrong" if the kryptonian is in the highest clear terrain they get a bonus. so if superman is in the highest clear terrain and attacks someone he gets +1. hawkman isn't the only example of an sp either, marquee batman from dkr also

Don't forget IH Spider-Man!

there probably is a newer thread but i found this on bing and its not that old but heres my question. If you are on a let say level 2 elevated terrain and there are 2 opposing characters on level 1 one character is in front of the second can i hit the second character or is the first character blocking it?second question almost same as the first but instead of a character in front of the other character what about blocking terrain i.e. someone drops barrier in front of the character can i hit the fig. or not?

A character will not block the line of fire.
Hindering terrain will not effect the line of fire.
Blocking will block the line of fire.

Slight correction. If the target character is IN hindering terrain then it will effect the attack. If he's behind it then it wont.

And one other clarification. If the first character was a or and it was in front of the second, line of fire would also be blocked

I don't know if that's true unless the Great Size character is the one being targeted.

It sounds like you only consider it on the same level if you're drawing line of fire to it directly and not just through.

MBSTONER IS CORRECT

Makes sense. I guess I should've checked various points of the rules related to this rather than just the PAC.