acta breaking off dogfights

[meglos]

A while back i played a game were some starfuries jumped some vorlon fighters in a dogfight,they killed a few ,then when it came to the vorlon fighter phase my friend decided to just fire into my fighters with his anti-fighter guns.

So my question is when fighters engage in dogfights can a player break off
or like in some games close combat goes on till 1 side wins?

My feeling is dogfights are really chaotic,to break off requires the opponent
being willing to allow you to do it ,how many pilots were shot down in WW1/WW2 by fighter aces when they probably just wanted to break off but the ace didn't want to ? it takes 2 to tango.

what is the rule for this ?

 

[Burger]

No, you cannot break off a dogfight. When in base contact with another fighter flight, you must dogfight until one of you is dead. No firing of fighter's guns normally is allowed.

 

[meglos]

thanks very much sir.