Reserve Artillery

A player’s reserve artillery unit does not have any figures,...

Reserve Artillery

The rules say that "When three or more targeting dice roll the same number, a shell crater is placed in the On Target hex.'

This is very clear, and by strict reading it means that a roll of 1-3-3-5-5 would NOT cause cratering, as no 3 dice rolled the same number.

However, after an initial faulty memory of the rule, we loosely interpreted it as 3 On Target dice cause cratering, which means that this roll WOULD crater the hex.

Should we follow the strict wording, or is our interpretation the actual intent?

looking at the FAQ,the actual literal wording is correct. Has to be 3 dice of the same number. Example 3 (or bottom Left diagram) gives such an example, and indicates NO cratering.

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Is the reserve artillery unit a single unit that can only be ordered once on a players turn, or if you are able to order units in more than one sector, can it be ordered once per sector?

Draco Paladin wrote: Is the reserve artillery unit a single unit that can only be ordered once on a players turn, or if you are able to order units in more than one sector, can it be ordered once per sector?

it is a single unit.
"A player’s reserve artillery unit does not have any figures, instead it is represented by a reserve artillery token, in a player’s play area. "
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Conceptually you could have more than 1 Reserve Artillery units in a scenario. Hasn't ever happened in a scenario, but if you had two Reserve Artillery units, a 5 & a 4 strength, you could order the 5 in one section and the 4 in another with a multi-section card like Recon in Force (and a huge number of HQ tokens). Would cost 1 order for each unit.

From all rules and forum comments I've read, the same number rolled from 3 dice must appear, and the chance of that occurring is next to nothing.

The chance of triples on 3 dice is 6 in 216. (2.8%)
Rolling at least triples
on 4d it is 126 in 1296 (9.7%)
on 5d it is 1656 in 7776 (21.3%)

from personal experience I can tell you it happens