Bug - cover

[CheeseshireCat]

It's a common bug, which was most irritating in Might&Magic 6-8. Cover works against you. Most of your shots are sunk into the small fence right in front of you (even though it's closer than your weapon's lenth), but 99% of shots against you just punch through/ignore it.

[CheeseshireCat]

And another part of the same. Even knee-high cover completely protects from explosions. Tested by standing an unarmored soldier near a grass fence and dropping grenades (hand, from launcher, and plasma) in the adjacent spot on the other side of the fence. Not a single scratch. And the soldier wasn't even crouched.