EW Activation

We've never required an action for EW to be activated.
If a unit is giving orders, and an opposing unit wants
to use its EW to spoof the orders, it just spends a
counter without using an action. 

I'm not sure that's the *official* way to use EW, but
that's what we do.

How do you spoof an enemy commo attempt if you have to
activate to use EW?

Kevin

> > Is EW activation an action?
> 
> How about that. It's not on my "Advanced Rules
> Summary" charts. And I thought I'd gone through the
> rules with a fine toothed comb. I have played it as
> an action by the EW unit. If the unit is part of the
> command unit (as it often is), then it counts as one
> of the two actions conducted by the command unit. If
> it's a separate unit, it requires an action, when it
> is activated, to operate the EW unit.
> 
> > If it is an action, it would have to be an Element
> Action (to coin a new
> > phrase). An element action is one that effects an
> individual element of a
> > unit (restricting the number of additional actions
> that element can perform
> > without restricting the number of actions that the
> rest of the unit may
> > perform). Element Action is not unprecedented
> (just not named so) as heavy
> > weapons action is a separate action for a unit,
> but only counts as an action
> > for the element and all of the leadership actions
> are element actions. Thus
> > an EW unit could activate the EW and move or
> activate the EW and fire a
> > weapon, but not activate the EW, move and fire a
> weapon. But a 2 man unit
> > with an EW element could move, activate the EW and
> have the non-EW element
> > fire.
> 
> Ummm... I don't think so. That's not how I was shown
> how to play the game, or how I take how the game is
> played.
> 
> My understanding is that a leader action counts as
> one of the two actions for a unit. There are no
> "element actions". If a unit's leader attempts to
> transfer actions to subordinate units, that transfer
> takes up an action. The rest of the command unit
> could not fire at the same time. Likewise, if a unit
> has an EW component attached to it, activating EW
> counts as one of the unit's actions.
> 
> Maybe this is something I've interepreted
> incorrectly, but it's the way I've played every game
> and it's the way I've seen every game played.
> 
> Allan Goodall - agoodall@canada.com
>
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