So I have a unit of skeleton archers from my tomb kings list trying to fire over a unit of skeletons at a unit of minotaurs beyond them. My opponent says that there’s no way that I can even try to shoot at them since they’re blocked by my skeletons(who are not currently fighting the minotaurs). I look and the minotaurs are twice as tall as the tiny skeletons and I tell him that true line of sight says that I can see and shoot them but at a -2 penalty (except that tomb kings always hit on a 5+ because of magic arrows). He says I’m too much of a power gamer and storms off with his army after one of the minotaurs dies to the shots fired by my archers. This was only in the second turn and most of his army was still alive.
Was I wrong or did he overreact?

Just adding here, true line of sight can be quirky, but it was partly due to it that they removed the old “large target” rules, I reckon. Shooting bows is nice, I’m just waiting for GW to make high elf archers a bit more worthwile.

My only problem is that he’s the only other guy who plays fantasy consistently at my club. He’s a player who’s used to older versions of the game but he’s been claiming I’ve been interpreting the rules only for my own benefit lately and I guess this was the straw that broke the camels back. Don’t think I’ll get to play fantasy again for some time because he doesn’t think it’s true line of sight. I even asked him if he’d like to come over look at it and make the call.
He’s also a guy who gets pissed if he sees killing blow or (god forbid) heroic killing blow. He got pissed earlier in the game when I killed a chariot with my heroic killing blow Tomb King.

I will admit to be a rules lawyer but I at least try to be fair and balanced about it. If I find something that works against me I bring it to my opponents attention. You probably remember me from the open terrain discussion which I’m actually arguing for my opponent since he brings beastmen a lot of the time.

High elves? Who cares about high elves? How about wood elves? High elves already have everything. :/

@aellan said:
Shooting bows is nice, I’m just waiting for GW to make high elf archers a bit more worthwile.

I won’t deny wood elves also need to be updated, but shooting wise High Elves are.the less interesting.elven choice. No fluffy rules, nothing.that makes you think “Oh, thats high elf archery.” Wood elves have great scouts mobility and that str bonus to their bows at shorter range, if I’m not misken, and a few more fluffy rules, dark elves got repeater crossbows, high elves got expensive bs4 plain archers and the worst scouts in game ( I still cant figure why shadow warrior won’t use poison on their hated enemies like most other effective assassin scout). But we are getting offtopic here, as I said before, true line of sight can be hard to get used to for older players, and now 40k will get it as well, so maybe more people will get used to it. Try and talk to that guy about it when he is in a better mood, maybe try and discuss what he considers exploiting about it and try to make him understand different army mechanics that allow the kind of move you used and how, getting.to know your army, he could better counter it.

Well the weird thing is wouldn’t I have been able to shoot monstrous infantry behind regular infantry under old line of sight rules anyway? Other systems that don’t use true line of sight have it so that if your base is larger you can be seen over smaller based models.
As for elves don’t high elves have fire arrows base? That’s kind of good. Though for the most part high elves are just good at CC and magic.

Huh thought seaguard or some other unit had fire arrows since I was using a hellpit abomination against a high elf player and he said they had fire arrows so no regen save.