Re: EW Activation

We looked in the rules for a reason why an EW unit
would ever want to be "inactive" and couldn't come up
with one.

I can think of "Real Life" (tm) reasons, but none
represented in game terms.

Also, do you play that ECM must be made "active" each
turn? Or, do you play that, once activated, it's on
until it's turned off?

We just assume that that in absence of a reason to be
inactive, an EW element would come on table active.

--- agoodall@canada.com wrote:
> On Thu, 31 August 2000, Kevin Balentine wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure that's the *official* way to use EW,
> but
> > that's what we do.
> 
> Interesting interpretation.
>  
> > How do you spoof an enemy commo attempt if you
> have to
> > activate to use EW?
> 
> The way we have played it, you don't get your chits
> until EW is active. To do that, you have to activate
> the EW unit. That means the EW unit is almost always
> the first unit activated. You don't get to spoof
> your opponent until you activate your EW unit. Mind
> you, he doesn't get to counter EW until HE activates
> his, so it sort of evens out.
> 
> The confusing part seems to be whether ECM is active
> or not. If you don't have to spend an action to make
> it "active", why not make it active all the time?
> There seems to be no reason for EW to not be active.
> Unless, of course, there is a modifier to hidden
> units using EW. 
> 
> Allan Goodall - agoodall@canada.com
>
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