ACTA 2E Questions: Wy did (X) change?

[Da Boss]

Also gives the Maximus yet another role - captial ship defense!

I would have prefered it as it was - less damage and keep the
interceptors.

 

[emperorpenguin]

OK then just to get the ball rolling: Why no interceptors on the Primus?

It does of course give the Sentri fighters something to do now.

2 reasons

1) Canon: We never see a Primus using any kind of defensive interceptor fire in the show in spite of ample opportunity to do so (ie taking a beating from a G'Quan and B5)

2) Fleet style: The Centauri are about lots of firepower on relatively fragile hulls.

As you say the Sentris can act as interceptors now while you can also protect a Primus with your Maximus now.

 

[Lord David the Denied]

How's this Sentris-as-interceptors lark work? Can other races do it?

 

[Burger]

Any fighter with non-weak weapons can do it... it is quite risky for the fighter, though!

 

[Da Boss]

everyone can do it - who actually has fighetrs!

They act as interceptors in all ways but you can't stop once you have declared and any 1 rolled means it is destroyed. Actually means Shadows fighters have a use now!

 

[Lord David the Denied]

Interesting. Very interesting. An excellent tactical option for fighters, I think... 8)

 

[Romu]

Yeah that makes them really worthwile imo. Thats good cos i'm a big fan of fighters

 

[H]

Question: oh rats, it's a fleet book question, I'd better not ask as it might change!!

I've used maneuvre to shield, protecting a warlock from a vorlon HC, with a Hermes ;-)

 

[Triggy]

Had it used against me by Triggy at a tournament. Very useful in convoy scenarios too as well as being "canon"

I'm not sure why it went

Didn't help me much though after the shielding Maximus forgot its Interceptors and the Octurion took a weapons lost critical as its first hit It was my own fault though as it would have worked spectacularly otherwise

 

[thePirv]

I've used M2S quite a few times. Very handy action, especially when you've got a ship like a Drakh Raider with a no weapons crit. Use it as a damage soak allowing bigger ships to get in range and batter the enemy. Yes, it usually means the loss of the smaller "protecting" ship, but protected ship usually takes revenge for the loss of it's smaller brother.

 

[H]

I've used M2S quite a few times. Very handy action, especially when you've got a ship like a Drakh Raider with a no weapons crit. Use it as a damage soak allowing bigger ships to get in range and batter the enemy. Yes, it usually means the loss of the smaller "protecting" ship, but protected ship usually takes revenge for the loss of it's smaller brother.

and in the RPG drakh supplement, they have ships whose sole job is to fly into incoming fire to protect larger ships.

 

[MustEatBrains]

Oh, one question: is it true that the way fleet points are calculated/split up has changed? If yes, how?

 

[Burger]

Yes, FAP splitting has changed... I couldn't tell you how because there were 2 different ways in the PDF I was sent! The way it was described was totally different to the table, and example! Hope they fixed that... I did point it out within a couple of hours of receiving the PDF...

 

[Davesaint]

everyone can do it - who actually has fighetrs!

They act as interceptors in all ways but you can't stop once you have declared and any 1 rolled means it is destroyed. Actually means Shadows fighters have a use now!

The Abbai can't do it because the Kotha has weak weapons.

 

[Kosh127]

So how do the Dilgar look?????

 

[thePirv]

Speaking of FAP breakdown, could someone in the know, possibly even from Mongoose, give us a nice chart like Hash did for Armageddon, just to totally clarify things? Nice big chart in player resources would be great

 

[Davesaint]

So how do the Dilgar look?????

The Dilgar are nasty.

 

[katadder]

currently the FAP breakdown is similar to armageddon but you get 4 patrol ships for a raid point and you only get 18 patrol for an armageddon point.
thats the one in the rulebook anyway
there was going to be a huge breakdown in the fleetlists book. as burger said though the example didnt match the table which i also sent in straight away so its odd they still sent a broken one to 2nd tiers.

 

[Burger]

It's also oddd they didn't tell us which was correct, after my repeated asking! It's pretty hard to say whether something is balanced or not if you don't even know how many you get for a raid point.

 

[Davesaint]

And then there is the issue of the haven, tethys, and I think the sho'kov(missle armend patrol hull)..........