RE: RE: [FT] Simultaneous Fire

--- steve@pugh.net wrote:
> On 15 May 2001, at 10:15, David Griffin wrote:
...
> The FASA game did have three movement phases in each
> turn, each 
> movement phase was followed by a shooting phase.
> Most weapons could 
> only fire once per turn. 
> 
> It did have the oddity that at the start of each
> firing phase the 
> players placed a counter marked 'fire' or 'no fire'
> face down next to 
> the ships. These were then all turned over. Ships
> with 'fire' 
> counters could then fire at any target. Bit of an
> odd half way house. 
> 
> I can't remember whether fire and damage within a
> phase were resolved 
> simultaneously or in some sort of initiative order.
> I think it was 
> probably initiative order.

I waited to reply till I could consult my copy
of the rules. Damage was simultaneous within each
phase. Of course if you didn't have a "fire" token
deployed you couldn't fire, but if both did, then
fire was simultaneous. I played this game a lot
and was pretty sure I didn't remember an asynchronous
fire.

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