There is a dispute within my group of players. One player remembers reading a ruling that a smaller character with Stealth in hindering terrain would block line of fire to a bigger character if that line of fire crossed the square the smaller character occupied. After much failed search-fu, I've decided to punt it to the group to see if anyone else can back up this claim.

Example, a character in hindering with Stealth possessing (A) is in the line of fire between an attacking character with (B) targeting a character with (C). Is line of fire from B to C blocked by A?

(x= empty square)

BxAC

Relevant ref:

STEALTH
When it is not your turn, hindered lines of fire drawn to this character are blocked.

Heroclix Rules Errata & Clarifications
Lines of fire drawn to or from a character are not blocked by characters smaller than themselves.

The player is wrong. No such ruling exists. You quoted the relevant rule yourself: "Lines of fire drawn to or from a character are not blocked by characters smaller than themselves."

Thank you. I couldn't see how it would be ruled any other way, but hey, you never know.

Really appreciate the response. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

In fact I believe that no such rule ever existed.

Next time make your friend back up his claims by citing the ruling. No reason to make you do the leg work.

The "Stealth Shield" was pretty common back when stealth was a very strong defense to have. This is because it was so powerful. I can understand a longtime player misunderstanding this.

I do agree with you on having the opponent do the lookup. From experience, forcing the player with the objection to do the legwork will generally have them think twice about arguing for the sake of it, though that may not be what the player was doing in this case.

Right. I love using a stealth shield.

I don't think it has ever occurred to me to try to get a player to confirm or disprove my question. It's one thing to debate here in the realms but to put the burden of proof on another when the rules don't suoport your argument seems nuts to me.

It never worked in the way described by the OP.

right - the figure had to be the same size for the "stealth shield" to work, not a smaller figure.

... Pulse Wave is the universal disinfectant to take care of this problem ...

No, it didn't. When most figures in play (99%) were normal-sized though, and Stealth was awesome (opposed to decent now) it was very widely used. I was just saying that based on remembering how good it was back in the day, a player might overestimate how it works now if they haven't read up on some rules. In this case, size rules.

I probably should have clarified a bit more. Sorry about that.