Re: [FT] rerolls for anti-fighter fire query

>> Noam's fighters were all 'stealth-2', which meant they acted as
doubly-
>> heavy fighters, or fighters with level-2 screens. 
>
>Hm... That's quite different from how the ship stealth works, isn't it?

Yeah. Noam? Wanna address this?  ;-)

>> Now a 6 will allow for a reroll, and the first time I got a reroll
roll
>that
>> hit (rolled a second 6! :), we weren't exactly sure how to handle it.
>Does
>> the reroll do 'straight' damage (ie, take out whatever number of
>fighters it
>> would normally do), or does it go against the fighters as if they are

>> normally screened? (ie, in this case, only 1 ftr killed on a 5 or 6) 
>We 
>> opted for the latter interpretation. 
>
>Against ships, a re-roll ignores both screens and armour - the rule
>doesn't say anything about heavy fighters, and neither does the PDS
rule.
>Against stealthed fighters, I'd say that by rolling a 6 you've managed
to
>burn through their stealth and locate them well enough that the re-roll
>hits as if they were standard fighters as well.

Noam's thought on the matter was that he saw the PDS/anti-fighter fire
as
the rolls attacking individual fighters, with rerolls attacking new
indi-
vidual fighters, so all fighters retain the benefit of the Stealth.

>Against normal heavy fighters... well, I'd go with the standard re-roll
>rules for simplicity, but I can't come up with good PSB support for it
>:-/

I'm all for simplicity. :)

I'm also all for my weapons fire to actually HIT something, too.  :-/ 
(yeah,
I started getting hits towards the end, but by that point most of my
fleet
had been crippled; see also AAR when I get it posted :)

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