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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:04 pm    Post subject: seeking weapons firing into asteroid hex Reply with quote

Question.

if a plasma torp or drone enters a hex, when tdoes the drone or plasasm take damage...before or after hitting the ship that is in the hex. In this example the ship is in an asteroid hex, and the seeking weapon enterd the asteroid hex from a clear hex.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oddly, the answer to your question is in an example, not the rule itself. In the example following rule (6B2d), the last sentence says, "If the drone's target was in the hex, the drone would damage that target before it takes asteroid damage."
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes I read that, I just thought it to be counter intuitive i would see a seeking weapon taking dmd when entering an asteroid hex, considering the hex is roughly 10,000 across, I assume that it would take dmg before hitting the target.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, well, it is as much a play-balance issue as anything else.

But, that is how it works.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does a seeking weapon take damage when fired FROM an asteroid hex into a non-asteriod hex?
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

D'Arc, I think the drone takes damage when it enters an asteroid hex, not when it leaves one, so no (although I may be wrong - Mike West is the final arbiter).
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terry: I checked the relevant sections of the Reference Rulebook, but find no specific mention. You are correct though, there is no damged scored when leaving an Asteroid hex... only when entering one.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Terry and 'dad are correct. The rules quite specifically use the term "entered". So, you only take damage as you enter an ateroid hex.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 1:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So the answers to these questions are:

1. A seeking weapon fired from an asteroid hex does not take any damage from the asteroids in that hex.

2. A seeking weapon entering an asteroid hex does not take damage if its target is in that hex.


I suppose it should be assumed that a seeking weapon launched in an asteroid hex at a stationary target in an adjacent asteroid hex would take no damage at all.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike wrote:
I suppose it should be assumed that a seeking weapon launched in an asteroid hex at a stationary target in an adjacent asteroid hex would take no damage at all.

That seems a logical conclusion to me.
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