a few questions

[GeKi]

Hi,

2 days ago we first played in her majesty´s name.

1. A friend of my played Englysh Army and one of his riflemen used the rifle with bayonet in close combat
and broke it.
The question now is did he loose just the bayonet or both?

2. Can I shoot through friendly or enemy models?

cheers

[Blofeld]

The question now is did he loose just the bayonet or both?

I'm sure someone will clear this up later but I'm pretty sure that close combat weapons don't break or misfire like long range weapons so I'd say that nothing would be broken unless he fired his rifle and that misfired.
Hope that's correct
Blofeld

[GeKi]

A Fumble can also happen in close combat

see page 17

cheers

[wulfgar22]

Personally, I'd only break the bit that was being used when the fumble happened...so in this case just the bayonet.

[Craig]

Indeed, it is just the bayonet that is now useless. Of course, your chap could continue using the rifle as a club.

Onto your second question, section 3.3.1 third paragraph applies. To wit, if you can see part of the figure you are trying to shoot at you do have line of sight. Depending on how many figures are in the way you might choose to count them as Type 1 or 2 cover, thus applying a penalty of -1 or -2 to the attack roll.

Shooting through a group, I would rule, is the same as shooting into one and is covered by section 3.3.3.