Federation Commander

[gulik23]

How do you determine who moves their drone first? Ex: Klingon drone targets a Fed ship; Fed drone targets the Klingon drone. At a certain point, the drones are one hex apart. Klingon drone is facing B and its target, as well as the Fed drone, is two hexes directly in direction BC. Both the Fed drone and the target are facing F. The Klingon drone can move in direction B or direction C. The Fed drone can move in direction E or direction F.
Which drone moves first?
If the Klingon drone moves to B and the Fed drone moves to F, the Klingon drone is destroyed. Same if the K drone moves to C and the Fed drone moves to E. But if the Klingon drone moves to B and the Fed drone moves to E (or they move to C and F, respectively), the Fed drone misses and will likely never catch up to the Klingon drone.

We ended up rolling off to decide, but I'd like to know if there's an actual rule that should apply here. Thanks!

[mjwest]

Rule (2A5) step 5 "Seeking weapons move" specifically state that "[i]f a seeking weapon is targeted on another seeking weapon, the target must move first.

So the Klingon drone (in your example) should have moved first.
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[gulik23]

Aha! Thanks!! (That was the result of the die roll anyway--lucky for me, your intrepid Federation captain!!)