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terryoc · Captain Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 1386

A federation NCL in one of the tactics threads Smile

has closed to Range 1 of a SB for a point-blank shot. They exchange fire, leaving the NCL damaged but alive.

In the Other Functions phase, the SB tractors it. Uh-oh. Shocked

On the next impulse, the SB will rotate. Does the NCL stay in the same hex, now facing the SB's phasers which were previously out of arc, Twisted Evil

, or does the NCL escape certain DOOOOOM by being moved into the next hex? I'm pretty sure that it doesn't move because it doesn't when ships turn, wanted to double check.
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Scoutdad · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:39 am Post subject:

The NCL remains in the hex it was in as the base rotates to a new facing arc... just like having a ship in your tractor beam as you make a 180 degree HET. The tractored ship stays in the hex it was originally in. It doesn't slew around traveling through three hexes as the tractoring ship turns.
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Mike · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:

i.e. the new light cruiser becomes the old junk debris field...
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Bolo_MK_XL · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:17 am Post subject:

Having not played FC in awhile --

How would the rule saying the ship with the most power to movement control movement be resolved ---
Seeing that a base would only use a couple/few points to do its rotation, and a ship using 8/16/24 --
The ship would control movement, so can only assume that the base would lose its rotation ---

Scoutdad · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:24 am Post subject:

I'm guessing that the positional stabilizer would serve to prevent the ship from controlling movement due to the large amount of hand'wavium required to construct a positional stabilizer. Wink

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mjwest · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 3:47 am Post subject:

The tractor rules specifically state that if a ship tractors a base, the tractor is broken the first time the ship moves after establishing the tractor. If the base tractors a ship, that ship does not move until the tractor is released.

And, yes, the NCL sits in the hex while the base's fresh weapons rotate into arc and gut/vaporize the NCL.

BTW, don't forget that, assuming this is a starbase, you have gobs of transporters and marines. Don't vaporize the NCL; board it and capture it. Bonus points if this is the pristine NCL instead of the gutted ones.
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Krellex · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject:

But it can sure be fun to break a ship down to it's molecular level, I have to admit. Twisted Evil

Kang · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

mojo jojo · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 23 Jun 2009 Posts: 340

Tractoring a ship would've been a bad idea. The base doesn't rotate until impulse 2 of the next turn, meaning it would've still been pulverized by the range 0 or 1 shots. And using power for tractors would've meant more internal hits.