Re: More Rules Questions

Date sent:  16-JUL-1996 08:35:56 

>Whenever I go ship design crazy, I round up.  I think the justification
is
>per FT p.26, plus the addage "Unless otherwise noted, always round to
the
>disadvantage of the player."  (You can tell I'm a Shadowrun GM.  (8-) )

You too? 8-)

>The way we play it is that the PDAF can only fire at fighters that are 
>going to fire at the target ship, and that damage is simultaneous.  
>PDAFs and ADAFs can only fire ONCE per turn, once you've shot, that's
it.

>Of course, if somebody who's read the rules more carefully would like
to 
>hammer me on this, please do so.  (8-)

In the real rules, a fighter group can only attack a ship after the ship
has fired at it (IIRC), but this then makes it unclear as to if or when
PDAFs can be used.

The way we play it, because the rools don't make much sense as written
(unless you nominate all fighter firing before firing starts and
action it after the target ship fires) is that PDAFs are not used as
'firing' but rather immediately fire on activation of the fighter group
outside the normal turn sequence BEFORE the fighters get a go. The
firing ship, which does not count as being activated, and can use it's
PDAFs after it has used its activation, can 'borrow' ADAFs from other
ships (and use it's own). The fighters that survive continue the attack.
In short, the defence systems kick in on the attackers turn rather than
the defenders.

ADAFs can, of course, be used in normal firing to attack any fighter
group
within 6".

Each PDAF and ADAF can only be used once, so multiple fighter groups can
swamp a target.

>(You know, this might be good information to stick in the FAQ.  Is that

>currently being updated?)

>J.

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