Re: [FT] rerolls for anti-fighter fire query

The man who used to be unable to hit with Pulse Torps but has now
unspecialised on PDSs wrote:

> >> Noam's fighters were all 'stealth-2', which meant they acted as 
> >> doubly-heavy fighters, or fighters with level-2 screens. 
> >
> >Hm... That's quite different from how the ship stealth works, isn't
it?
> 
> Yeah. Noam? Wanna address this?  ;-)

Um... Mark, are you *sure* you want to cut your PDS ranges to 4-5 mu
when
his fighters can still shoot at you from 6 mu out?

> >Against ships, a re-roll ignores both screens and armour - the rule
> >doesn't say anything about heavy fighters, and neither does the PDS 
> >rule.
> >Against stealthed fighters, I'd say that by rolling a 6 you've
managed
to
> >burn through their stealth and locate them well enough that the
re-roll
> >hits as if they were standard fighters as well.
> 
> Noam's thought on the matter was that he saw the PDS/anti-fighter fire

> as the rolls attacking individual fighters, with rerolls attacking new
indi-
> vidual fighters, so all fighters retain the benefit of the Stealth.

Valid point, of course. However, since the entire group tends to travel
together, once you've located one of them you have a fairly good idea of
where to look for the rest <shrug>

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
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