Auxilia, Auxbots and random TO:Camo

[MDG3ist]

Hi all, I don't know if this should technically be in the PanO section as it's mostly about Auxilias and their Auxbots, but here goes anyway, along with a bonus question about TO: Camo markers and mines, just for kicks...

1) Can the auxbot take advantage of forward observer and also be used to target enemies, or just the auxilia?
2) If they can, as target is a BS attack, during the active turn, can the auxbot declare BS attack: target and the auxilia declare BS attack with the combi rifle, or do they both have to either shoot or mark a target?
3) As both attacks happen simultaneously, am I right in saying if the auxbot successfully targeted an enemy the auxilia wouldn't receive the targeting benefit from his bs attack, so in essence even though the enemy is immediately targeted, you don't get the benefit until you spend your next order?

4) Finally (from left field...) do to:camo markers set off mines if they use short movement skills that don't reveal them within a mine's zone of control? I know the rule about deployment and camo, but could a marker that hasn't been discovered move into/through a mine's trigger area without interacting with it in any way, and not set it off?

Thanks as always to any clarity you can provide to the above!

[MDG3ist]

P.S. sorry I assume the answers to 2 and 3 also apply if one is using a flash pulse and the other is shooting?

[Errhile]

No.

It is Auxilia profile who gets equipped with Forward Observer gear.
Auxbot does not.

Please note that there are 3 different variants of an Auxbot available to PanOceania, and each has its own, distinctive profile. If they share a characteristic with their controlling troop, it is clearly listed. E.g. Auxbot_3 which has Mechanized Deployment (so it can be deployed alongside it's controlling ArmBot).
Auxilia use Auxbot_1, and it doesn't share any characteristic with its controller troop. Especially, no FO equipment is listed on the Auxbot, even in case it is used by a FO Auxilia.

[Stiopa]

In N2 Auxilia Auxbots did have FO skill, but they lost it in N3. As Errhile says, only Auxilia controllers can use FO now.

Camo/TO Camo Markers do cause mines to explode, and so do Holoechoes; the only markers that don't set mines off are Impersonation markers, as they're considered as friendly by mine's IFF system.

[MDG3ist]

Okay thank you both that clears up a lot!

[MDG3ist]

So on the same order the auxilia could use target and the auxbot 1 could use its flamethrower though, as they're both bs attacks?

[Errhile]

Seems so.