RE: Fighters and Hangers

[Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jared Hilal wrote:

>As far as I can tell, the FB changes to fighters only affected 
>movement/endurance and added rules for screening capital ships (adopted 
>from EFSB) and intercepting missiles (to go with the new SM systems). The 
>rules for fighter attacks, both against ships and against other fighters 
>(both long range and dogfights) were unchanged except for the addition of 
>rerolls and the allowance for split fire in dogfights.

You missed some fairly important changes:

Fighter attacks against ships were changed by being moved from the ships' 
fire phase (fighters used to attack immediately after their target ship had 
fired, or after all ships had fired if their target didn't fire any 
weapons) to a separate phase in front of it, and of course they were also 
affected by the changes to the point defence fire rules.

Similarly allowing split fire wasn't the only change to the 
fighter-vs-fighter combats; furballs also changed from simultaneous fire to 
the groups firing in initiative order, and in addition ranged 
fighter-vs-fighter fire was moved from after fighter-vs-ship attacks to 
before them.

Regards,

Oerjan
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