ACTA supporting fighters - Official answers only please

[Iain McGhee]

A question that came out of a thread on the main ACTA page:

If you have a fighter flight supporting another fighter flight can you have a third flight support the supporting flight and a fourth supporting the third and so on, forming a "chain", or are you restricted to one flight and one supporting flight only ?

 

[B_Steele]

You measure support to the fighter flight that is actually doing the dogfighting. So (barring Dilgar special rules) the flights touching the fighter flights IN THE DOGFIGHT being battled (chosen to perform the dogfight roll) at the time are actually supporting. Does that make sense?

-Bry

 

[Burger]

I think the question is referring to flying "on support", rather than supporting in dogfights. As in page 31, "Supporting ships and flights".

As an extension... can 2 flights both fly on support of each other? (finding practical applications of that one is an exercise fo the reader... I have one in mind )

 

[Iain McGhee]

Burger's right, I was really asking about fighters flying in support with regard to intercepting fire etc rather than dogfights. The question wasn't really in context if you hadn't seen the forum post. Sorry