• Registered: 2006-03-03
  • Posts: 10

Topic: Fire-linked

I was wondering, if you have a weapon battery with the fire-linked SA, do you have to use it whenever that battery fires?  For example:  say you have two opposing vessels in your ab arc.  Vessel 1 has already taken some dammage and could be destroyed with just a few shots, meanwhile vessel 2 is relatively undamaged.  Could I split my fire and still use fire-linked, have to disengage fire-linked, or would I have to pick one target and hit it with everything in that battery?  Thanks.

  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: Fire-linked

No, you cannot choose to "turn off" Fire-linked weapons

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: Fire-linked

You may be misreading the fire-linked trait.

It does not require you to fire all weapons at a single target -- it does mean that all weapons fired at a given target are resolved with a single roll of {ROF} dice.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: Fire-linked

so they don't all share the same targeting data?

  • Registered: 2005-03-31
  • Posts: 54

Re: Fire-linked

How would that affect firing against fighter flights? I guess that a flight could only lose a single fighter  :?:

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 3,578

Re: Fire-linked

Honestly, I think people are assuming Fire-Linked is more complicated than it is. All weapons fired against a single target succeed or fail based on the roll of one weapon's ROF dice.

Example: 5 weapons, each with a ROF-2, are firing at a single target. Therefore, two dice are rolled, with each success indicating five hits.

In the case of a fighter flight, as with any other weapon, one fighter is eliminated per hit.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website