ACTA: Contact and AF Vs Skindancers (official only please)

[Iain McGhee]

OFFICIAL ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE

Two questions that have been doing the rounds for a while:

1:Contact- Do fighters making suicide attacks on a ship need to make contact with the base or the stem of a model ? I'd say stem.

2:AF against Skindancers- Can skindancing models be targeted with AF fire or not ? I'd say no.

Thanks.

 

[MongooseMatt]

Correct on both counts!

 

[Da Boss]

Should AF be allowed to fire if the fighter fails its skindancing check - ie is not actually skin dancing

 

[Burger]

What about AF from other ships? Assuming they are within 2", of course.

 

[lastbesthope]

Should AF be allowed to fire if the fighter fails its skindancing check - ie is not actually skin dancing

If a fighter fails a skindancing check it's destroyed, nothing left to fire anything at.

LBH

 

[Greg Smith]

Ah, but can you shoot it down before it impacts the target?

 

[lastbesthope]

Well I've always rolled the damage as soon as I fail the check so I'd say no.

LBH

 

[Iain McGhee]

I'd agree with that as the skindancing attempt is made as part of the movement phase and AF fire is performed after all fighter movement. If it succeeds it can't be shot at and if it fails it goes splat