Re: Using FTFB interceptors
From: Channing Faunce <channing@g...>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 16:06:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Using FTFB interceptors
Tom McCarthy wrote:
> From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@aimnet.com>
>
> >A dogfight keeps going till one side decides to leave
> >and take the "parting shot" is how I read it.
> >
> >They can start the turn in dogfight status (if that's how they ended
last
> >turn) but then they adhere to the Fighter-toFighter Combat rules (FT
p.17).
> >
> >"...he may move his Group away provided it has not already moved that
turn;
> >if he does this, however, the attacking Group gets a free round of
attack
> >rolls before contact is broken."
>
> Which brings me back to the point of contention. Can the attacking
Group
> follow (assuming it hasn't moved yet this turn) ? Can it initiate
another
> dogfight ? With the same group ?
Page 17 of Full Thrust 2 ed. last column states that if a group breaks
away from
a dogfight the other may take a parting shot, then move as normal, but
*may not*
attack a second time that turn. One attack by a fighter group per turn.
Chan Faunce