Smoke rounds in Epic 41K

Any unit with the Artillery modifier may be equipped with smoke rounds at a cost of 5 points per unit with smoke rounds.

Using smoke rounds:

• The firing unit’s detachment must be on Special orders.
• Smoke rounds must be fired as part of Preliminary Bombardment.
• A unit may only fire one smoke round per firing phase.
• Firing the smoke round counts as the units fire for that phase. They do not get to fire for effect also.
• For each smoke round fired place a 6cm circle (a "blast template" ).
• The template blocks line of sight/line of fire for all units, except flyers. Please note that skimmers line of sight is blocked by smoke rounds. The smoke is a pillar, not a hemisphere.
• If placed on a unit the unit has it’s line of sight blocked, and it is blocked as well. (i.e. you can’t see it and it can’t see out of the smoke cloud). You must cover at least 3 figures for infantry units and 2 figures for cavalry units. There is no other effect for placing a smoke round on a unit.
• During the rally phase smoke clouds are removed after Blast Markers are removed.
• To remove a smoke cloud roll one die per cloud. Smoke clouds are removed on a 4+.