Shooting from check

[ulzgoroth]

How does the game decide whether you're allowed to just shoot a piece that is checking you? I haven't figured out the pattern.

I am pretty sure it is not that you can only shoot if it's guaranteed to work, because I've had it not work (when the target was on a diagonal and there was a piece on the flat adjacency that shielded it).

[ulzgoroth]

Lesson: it looks like it will allow even 'bad idea' shots after you have depleted your 'don't be dumb' shields. How it decides whether the shot is a bad idea remains unclear.

[matheod]

If i remember, You can shoot if you have enough power to theorically kill the piece. But as shot is random you might not get all shot.

You can also shift+clic if you want to bypass the shield things.

[Doctor Teo]

What I've discovered is that if you're in check, and the piece checking you is right next to you, and your firepower equals or exceeds that piece's health, it won't consume a shield, it'll just shoot the piece.

That being said, there are times you do have enough firepower, but you're either not aiming directly at the target (even though the result would be the same), or the target checking you is more than a space away. I've had runs where I had the scope active (just about perfect accuracy), plenty of firepower, but I still had to go through my shields before I could take the shot, which killed the piece.