ACTA - Armageddon Questions

[Reaverman]

Delta-V2 says you get 3 Wings for a patrol point. Surely it means "3 flights per wing".
Same for White Star Fighter but since this is 1 flight per wing it doesn't make much difference, however the terminology is still inconsistent with SFOS.

Hey I told you that

 

[Greg Smith]

Have we had answers to these?

 

[lastbesthope]

Nope, and here's a few more:

Can Thunderbolts be swapped for Breaching pods. By the letter of the
current rules they can't (In the same way that they can't be swapped for
Starfuries)?

Do the ISA get access to Starfuries/Tbolts from the old SFOS lists or the
new EA Armageddon stats?

LBH

 

[lastbesthope]

A question on behalf of lazy_bum_Student:

Can White Star 2's and White star Fighters skindance?

LBH

 

[Silvereye]

A question on behalf of lazy_bum_Student:

Can White Star 2's and White star Fighters skindance?

LBH

You may as well get the rest of the White Star line involved.

Can the SS Titanic..., no wait that should be the White Star Gunship and the White Star Carrier Skindance too?

 

[Lazy_bum_student]

I saw the skin dancing as one of the only possible ways to make the whitestar fighters last more than a round.

Me: Scramble all fighters, target the lead ship
Enemy: ooh look big guns and skirmish points in single little fighters lets shoot them

2/3 hits per ship later

Enemy: So how many vp do i get per skirmish level ship?
Me: /cry

 

[Burger]

Fighter CQ's:
Armageddon states that all fightes have a CQ of 4, but the ISA and Vree get their usual bonuses, which means they effectively have CQ 5. But this is only true for the ISA. Vree bonus is a +1 to CQ checks, not to CQ.

 

[Voronesh]

So dogfighting isnt an opposed CQ check?

offtopic:
makes them even more lousy in the fighter game.

 

[Triggy]

Enemy: So how many vp do i get per skirmish level ship?
Me: /cry

They're still auxilliary craft so only give up 1VP per flight.

 

[Alexb83]

It's not worded as a CQ check in the rules. It's your CQ+your dogfight score vs. theirs + theirs. So not a CQ check, really.

 

[lastbesthope]

Since we haven't had a ruling on any of the questions I've gathered them all up from the thread:

On the Whitestar Carrier, the Molecular Pulsars do not indicate that they are Anti-Fighter. Is this correct?

Also, on the Whitestar Gunship - The Crew number is only 15. Is this a typo, or is this correct? It seems to be very low for a War Level ship, especially given the Damage and Crew numbers on the Whitestar Carrier.

Hey Dave,
1) I'm assuming that the ISA Victory Class Destroyer uses the same stats as the EA in Armageddon for Starfuries and Thunderbolts rather than the SFOS ones? (Doesn't matter which era as IIRC they are all the same, yes?)

2) The E-M War supplement tells players to use SFOS stats for some ships,
should we now use Early Years EA instead, another of the new EA era fleets, or should they stick with SFOS ones for balance?

3) Not quite an Armageddon question, and it may have been cleared up already but what type of breaching pods do the ISA get to use? Minbari or EA? Is there a difference for the various White Star craft as opposed to the Victory in which pods get used?
EDIT : Ignore this question, reread the ISA fleet rules, they don't get breaching pods

4) Weren't some of the Shadow or Vorlon hull ratings wrong in the tourney
pack/Armageddon? Which ones (if any) and what should they be.

5) There has been talk on the forums of some of the Hyperions having
misnamed weapons, Again, which ones (if any) and what should they be?

Typos:

Shadow Hunter fighter dispersal tube should be 30", not 3"
Vorlon Light Cruiser should have hull 5, not 6
Vorlon Light Cruiser should have a Flight Computer, not just a Computer
Vorlon Transport should be Self-Repairing, not Self-Repaiting
Page 51, Barkiri task force should say Brakiri
Early EA Hyperion Pulse Cruiser's Particle Beam should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Crusade EA Hyperion's bottom Medium Pulse Cannon should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Crusade EA Hyperion Assault Cruiser's bottom Medium Pulse Cannon should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Nemesis' Heavy Phasing Pulse should be a Heavy Phasing Pulse Cannon
The Lordship should have a Graviton Beam, not a Grabiton Beam
Delta-V2 picture is mirrored... not necessarily a typo but the numbers on the wing look funny

Already answered:
Victory's Adaptive Armour does not go offline when it fires its lightning cannon.

Question regarding Triumviron:
For each Hyperplasma Cutter that attacks the same target, add 2AD: so if each one attacks a different target, they get 6 each. If all three attack one, do they get 3x 6AD standard plus 3x 2AD, or 3x 6AD standard plus 2x 2AD for the extra 2?

Did we have a reversal of the ruling on the order of operations on Crippling and Speed Loss to Crits? As I understood it, if you had a Speed 10 ship, -2 speed crit, and were crippled, you were Speed 4, not Speed 3. The Armageddon FAQ seems to change this.

7) Should the Heavy Pulse Cannon on the Third Age Hyperion Command Cruiser really have a Boresight arc or should it be Forward arc?

8 ) The Starboard Laser/Pulse array of the Crusade era Warlock has the trait Anti-Fighter, this should surely be Twin-Linked?

9) Can we also have a written clarification of how much it costs to put G'Sten and Sheridan in War and Armageddon Level ships. Matthew has previously stated that to place Sheridan in a War ship raises the Pl of the choiice to Armageddon, and that placing him in the VCD costs the usual Armageddon point + 1 Raid PL choice.

Another very slight typo:
On Page 80, the text "Turn:" in the Shadow Fighter flight stats should be in Bold.

Delta-V2 says you get 3 Wings for a patrol point. Surely it means "3 flights per wing".
Same for White Star Fighter but since this is 1 flight per wing it doesn't make much difference, however the terminology is still inconsistent with SFOS.

Can Thunderbolts be swapped for Breaching pods. By the letter of the
current rules they can't (In the same way that they can't be swapped for
Starfuries)?

Do the ISA get access to Starfuries/Tbolts from the old SFOS lists or the
new EA Armageddon stats?

A question on behalf of lazy_bum_Student:
Can White Star 2's, White star Fighters, White Star Gunship or White Star Carrier skindance?

Dogfighting is not considered a CQ check? (Pertains to Vree bonus to CQ checks, but not CQ)

LBH

 

[Davesaint]

*Bump*

Still waiting for official rulings

Dave

 

[lastbesthope]

Can we get an answer on these before the Masters of War tourney?

LBH

 

[Davesaint]

*bump* still waiting for answers........

 

[MongooseMatt]

>>>On the Whitestar Carrier, the Molecular Pulsars do not indicate that they are Anti-Fighter. Is this correct?

Correct.

>>>Also, on the Whitestar Gunship - The Crew number is only 15. Is this a typo, or is this correct? It seems to be very low for a War Level ship, especially given the Damage and Crew numbers on the Whitestar Carrier.

Correct.

1) I'm assuming that the ISA Victory Class Destroyer uses the same stats as the EA in Armageddon for Starfuries and Thunderbolts rather than the SFOS ones? (Doesn't matter which era as IIRC they are all the same, yes?)

Correct.

2) The E-M War supplement tells players to use SFOS stats for some ships,
should we now use Early Years EA instead, another of the new EA era fleets, or should they stick with SFOS ones for balance?

E-M War supplement not used in this tournament.

Shadow Hunter fighter dispersal tube should be 30", not 3"
Vorlon Light Cruiser should have hull 5, not 6
Vorlon Light Cruiser should have a Flight Computer, not just a Computer
Vorlon Transport should be Self-Repairing, not Self-Repaiting
Page 51, Barkiri task force should say Brakiri
Early EA Hyperion Pulse Cruiser's Particle Beam should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Crusade EA Hyperion's bottom Medium Pulse Cannon should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Crusade EA Hyperion Assault Cruiser's bottom Medium Pulse Cannon should be a Medium Plasma Cannon
Nemesis' Heavy Phasing Pulse should be a Heavy Phasing Pulse Cannon
The Lordship should have a Graviton Beam, not a Grabiton Beam

Victory's Adaptive Armour does not go offline when it fires its lightning cannon.

>>>Did we have a reversal of the ruling on the order of operations on Crippling and Speed Loss to Crits? As I understood it, if you had a Speed 10 ship, -2 speed crit, and were crippled, you were Speed 4, not Speed 3. The Armageddon FAQ seems to change this.

The FAQ is correct.

7) Should the Heavy Pulse Cannon on the Third Age Hyperion Command Cruiser really have a Boresight arc or should it be Forward arc?

The arc is Boresight (there is only so much space up front!).

8 ) The Starboard Laser/Pulse array of the Crusade era Warlock has the trait Anti-Fighter, this should surely be Twin-Linked?

Correct.

9) Can we also have a written clarification of how much it costs to put G'Sten and Sheridan in War and Armageddon Level ships. Matthew has previously stated that to place Sheridan in a War ship raises the Pl of the choiice to Armageddon, and that placing him in the VCD costs the usual Armageddon point + 1 Raid PL choice.

This is correct.

>>>Delta-V2 says you get 3 Wings for a patrol point. Surely it means "3 flights per wing".

Correct.

>>>Can Thunderbolts be swapped for Breaching pods. By the letter of the
current rules they can't (In the same way that they can't be swapped for
Starfuries)?

By letter of the rules. . .

>>>Do the ISA get access to Starfuries/Tbolts from the old SFOS lists or the
new EA Armageddon stats?

Use the ISA list for now.


>>>Can White Star 2's, White star Fighters, White Star Gunship or White Star Carrier skindance?

Only those ships listed can skin dance (and there is no _way_ we will ever let the carrier do it!!!).

>>>Dogfighting is not considered a CQ check?

No, it is not a CQ check.

 

[Triggy]

Thank you Matt!

It increasingly seems like the rule of thumb is to follow the rules as written unless you hear otherwise (even if the ruling may seem daft at least a literal interpretation is written down and indisputable).

 

[Ripple]

Matt, thank you for addressing this thread...always nice to have official answers....but...

you contradicted yourself above on the issue of ISA using 'furies/T-Bolts. You say the Victory should use armeggedon EA fighters but the ISA should us the SFoS lists for now.

Thanks again

Ripple

 

[Voronesh]

Yer there is a contradiction on the VCD's fighter complement.

And Dogfight 3 Auroras would be plain evil.

 

[lastbesthope]

Thanks Matt,

I noticed that fighter contradiction too.

LBH

 

[lastbesthope]

2) The E-M War supplement tells players to use SFOS stats for some ships,
should we now use Early Years EA instead, another of the new EA era fleets, or should they stick with SFOS ones for balance?

E-M War supplement not used in this tournament.

Granted, but what about outside the tournament?

LBH