I agree with Andras regarding Hedges, blocks LOS and provides cover?

[MrBluze]

Quoting the text on page 19 of the revised rule book regarding hedges:

Hedges: Hedges run along the boundaries between hexes. A hedge is considered to be in neither of the two hexes it divides. A hedge is a hex-side terrain. If a sight line crosses a hex side with a hedge along it, then that line of sight is blocked. If a sight line runs exactly along a hedge hex side, that line of sight is not blocked by the hedgerow hex.

I must say that I am in agreement with Andras regarding hedges providing cover. If it is a fringe hex how can it provide cover? It is simply a wall of shrubs to hide from not like a bluff. If a player moves around to the side where an opponent is visible then the hedge cannot provide cover. Even though this a small issue, stating that a hedge provides cover, it is wrong, since in this game cover allows a player to make a cover roll. In a way it does provide cover, because you can’t fire at something you can’t see. Being behind a hill, forest or a city would have to be considered cover then. This is not being consistent to state that a hedge provides cover. There will be arguments regarding making cover rolls. There will be a player in a tournament, who will have a unit in a hex that has a hedge on its fringe that will interpret the information in the glossary as an opportunity for a cover roll. After my rambling on the question is, if a unit has a LOS to a targeted unit in a hex that does have a hedge on its fringe, does the targeted unit get make a cover roll?
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[Y2UAsk]

First, in order to provide cover, a) the LOS must cross the hedge hexside, and b) the target unit must be in the hex that is bordered by the hedge.

Regarding the question of whether hedges should provide cover, note that the name "hedge" is somewhat misleading. The type of feature the game is dealing with is not an ordinary garden hedge but the sort of obstacle one finds in Normandy's bocage country. These are substantial mounds of rocks, earth, trees, and brush that have been built up over centuries by farmers clearing stones from their fields. They are sloping walls, sometimes up to 6 or 8 feet high, topped by tangled growth with roots that tie the whole mass together. They provide excellent concealment and bullet-stopping cover to units behind them, as well as being impediments to movement by both tracked vehicles and men.

Steve