Author Topic: (Answered) Attack by Grounded Fighter  (Read 652 times)

TimberwolfD

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(Answered) Attack by Grounded Fighter
« on: 31 July 2024, 01:12:34 »
Total Warfare (p. 249, Heading Attacks by Grounded Aerospace Units) includes rules for grounded fighters and DropShips to attack while landed. For DropShips, there is a note under Firing Weapons that DropShips use ground ranges and damage while there is no similar sentence for fighters.
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Resolve each individual weapon as a separate attack, using ranges and damage values as found on pages 303-304.

Attacks by and against fighters are defined  however nothing is said about using the standard ground weapon ranges and damage values.
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Fighters have the same firing arcs and attack directions for incoming fire on the ground map as they do on the space map; all weapon attacks by grounded fighters apply a +2 to-hit modifier.

So far I have not found any limit that constrains grounded fighter ranges. So, theoretically a grounded fighter's small lasers are now quite long ranged.

Is this intentional?

On a side note, my reading of the DropShip section includes rolling cluster rolls for attacks with cluster weapons, however this is not explicitly stated. Is this a correct interpretation, or should cluster rolls be assumed to be 7?
« Last Edit: 02 August 2024, 11:39:14 by Hammer »

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Re: Attack by Grounded Fighter
« Reply #1 on: 02 August 2024, 11:39:03 »
We are going to issues some clarifying errata.

Total Warfare, p. 249:

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Attacks by DropShips are carried out with the exceptions noted above concerning firing arcs for grounded spheroid DropShips. Resolve each individual weapon as a separate attack, using ranges and damage values as found on pages 303-304.

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Attacks by aerospace units are carried out with the exceptions noted above. Resolve each individual weapon as a separate attack, using ranges and damage values as found on pages 303-304, using ground unit cluster rules as appropriate.
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