A Seeking Question....I know, another one

[Greg Smith]

If a ship has moved more than 12 inches in a turn (usually by using the All Power to Engines! Special Action) and is attacked by a seeking weapon in any fire arc except its fore, it may be able to evade the weapon long enough to escape any damage.

Under these conditions, the ship makes an opposed Crew Quality check with the ship attacking it with seeking weapons. If the ship manages to win the check, then the seeking weapon attack is ignored.

It states a single check, not multiple checks. Either all Seeking Weapons are Evaded or none are.

The rule uses the singular 'weapon' in three instances, implying that you roll a check against each weapon.

 

[billclo]

I think the simplest thing to do is consider a drone attack (one weapon system line, regardless of how many AD) to be one "attack", and you evade the whole "attack" or not. Rolling against each drone is a) tedious, and b)probably not what Matt meant. Rolling against each single drone will slow the game down significantly.

Since Plasmas are listed and fired singly, I'd say roll against each separate plasma.

 

[archon96]

I would consider a drone a attack a single weapon system because it usually is. Unless its the variable weapons from orions and space station types. The plasma however are a different story.

 

[Rambler]

Hey Matt, can we get a ruling on this please?

 

[JohnDW]

Don't let what you think would happen in real life (or in fiction) distract you from what the rules say will happen as an abstraction to allow the game to play faster than a more complex system.

The rules say one opposed CQ check is made. It does say attack in the singular sense, but each attack can involve multiple weapons and weapon systems.