Federation Commander

pneumonic81 · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject: firing out of an asteriod hex

One of my opponents likes to sit in an asteriod hex and fire occationally. He has been adding +1 to direct fire weapons, which I beleive is correct. However when launching seeking weapons he claims that there is no effect on them from the asteriod hex.

What this ends up looking like is a hex that he can safley fire drones/plasma out of but if any drone or plasma enters the hex, it receives a penalty. The question is, how can such a hex damage incoming weapons but have no effect on weapons that are leaving. Also if there is no effect on seeking weapons fire from an asteriod hex, then why is there an effect on direct fire leaving that same hex?

perhaps someone can clarify if there is a problem here, or if I am misreading the rules.
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DNordeen · Commander Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 545

For the +1 to direct fire, you are correct. 6B3 specifically includes the hex of the firing unit.

For the damage to drones, your opponent has it right. Ships, fighters, shuttles, drones, and other units receive damage for each asteriod hex entered.

There's no real easy way to do it any other way. If you take damage for every hex you leave, then he can fire into an asteriod hex without damage. If you do both entering and leaving, than everyone recieves double damage.

For "rationalization" purposes, you could assume that the firing ship has moved to the edge of the field to fire or has programmed in an initial flight path to avoid the asteriods. Since you couldn't do that for other hexes, the drones would take damage for each hex entered.
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mjwest · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject:

DNordeen is absolutely correct.

BTW, pnemonic, that really sounds like a nice little tactic submission to me ...
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pneumonic81 · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject:

Yeah its a fairly good tactic, the drawback is that you yourself have to move through the asteriods at 0+1 or 8+1 which then limits your manuver options.

We have all used it since I have at least 4 panels of asteriods in each fight (they are wicked fun to play with).
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texastwister · Ensign Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 17 Location: Austin, TX

willhc · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:46 pm Post subject:

Hrm...maybe asteroids will be the terrain this weekend...
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pneumonic81 · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject: