Re: Questions concerning beta test Fighter rules

Leslie Karlik:

>a) If I have an escorting Fighter group, and the escorted group decides
to 
>take a secondary move, does the escorting group have to pay 1 CEF, too?

If the escorting group has to make a secondary move in order to stay in 
base-to-base contact with the group it is escorting, it has to pay CEF.
In 
some cases it is possible for the escorting group to stay in
base-to-base 
contact with the escorted group without actually moving - ie. when the 
escorting group makes a short secondary move from one side of the escort
to 
the other; not very common, but it does happen.

>and having more escorts to one group should be possible

As long as you can track which group is escorted and which ones aren't,
sure.

>b) Is fighter weapon range reduced to 3" in vector movement?

No.

>Or is it still 6" for both cases?

Yes.

>c) Since those rules make refuelling more important, when are fighters 
>refueled and re-armed?

As specified on FB2 p.4, section "Fighter re-arming".

(FWIW using DCPs to re-fuel fighters would mean that specialized
carriers 
generally have a WORSE turn-around time than dreadnoughts, since the 
dreadnoughts typically have more DCPs available per fighter group.)

>d) I assume fighters are recovered in the "launch fighters and ordnance

>phase"?

At the end of SHIP movement as specified in the fighter recovery rules
on 
FT2 p.16.

Regards,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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