• Registered: 2010-12-25
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Topic: Seekers - Choosing your route to target

A seeker flight can move into any hex that moves the seeker closer to the target and if presented with two choices, the owning player chooses.  This part is crystal clear.

The next clause states that if a seeker is forced into a hex with another ship/flight/etc. it prematurely detonates and attacks that ship.  According to the letter, this would mean that if a seeker has a choice, it must go around a non-target ship and attempt to continue to it's original target.  Is this the intent or can a seeker player choose to move into a valid hex (i.e. one closer to the original target) that contains a ship and make an attack?

Thanks

Brian

  • Registered: 2008-12-22
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Re: Seekers - Choosing your route to target

bcantwell wrote:

A seeker flight can move into any hex that moves the seeker closer to the target and if presented with two choices, the owning player chooses.  This part is crystal clear.

The next clause states that if a seeker is forced into a hex with another ship/flight/etc. it prematurely detonates and attacks that ship.  According to the letter, this would mean that if a seeker has a choice, it must go around a non-target ship and attempt to continue to it's original target.  Is this the intent or can a seeker player choose to move into a valid hex (i.e. one closer to the original target) that contains a ship and make an attack?

Thanks

Brian

My interpretation of "forced" would mean that if it occurs as a result of the previously described movement requirements/limitations, not strictly as the result of an outside force.
Erik

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
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Re: Seekers - Choosing your route to target

bcantwell wrote:

Is this the intent or can a seeker player choose to move into a valid hex (i.e. one closer to the original target) that contains a ship and make an attack?

The movement of a seeker is always up to the controlling player, so long as it moves closer to the target. So yes, a seeker may voluntarily move into the hex containing a different target and detonate prematurely.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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  • Registered: 2010-10-21
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Re: Seekers - Choosing your route to target

What if a shuttle moves into the seeker flight?  Do they take it as a target?  As in a wild weasel?

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
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Re: Seekers - Choosing your route to target

If the seekers are in the same hex as a (valid) target, they attack.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

mj12games's Website