Firecons

Darryl Hills writes:

@:) We recently had a situation arise while battling in dust
@:) clouds. =20 After nominating that certain batteries were going to
@:) fire on a = particular ship we rolled to get a weapons lock, and
@:) failed.  My opponent then declared that because the weapons had
@:) not been fired = and because their ship had 3 firecons that they
@:) could try to fire the = same batteries by attempting to get a lock
@:) on with the next firecon and = if that failed with the next one.

@:) The rules state that firecons can be used to target multiple
@:) opponents = not the same ship multiple times.  Any Ideas??

  My take on this is that your opponent would have had to declare that
he was attempting to use multiple firecons to target your ship -
before he attempted to fire on your ship.  Otherwise I would assume
that only one fire control had been allocated and that there is no
instantaneous backup fire control.

-joachim