Can Narn E-mines Concentrate All Firepower?

[Boomer]

Quick one...can Narn E-mines use the Concentrate All Firepower to allow re-roll of any "misses"? Man, if they can thats beyond brutal... :shock:

 

[Tzarevitch]

I don't believe so. It would seem to be illogical that a weapon with that big a blast radius can concentrate anything, but you may want to wait for some more authoritative reply.

Tzarevitch

 

[Sulfurdown]

No, Energy Mines specifically cannot concentrate fire.

 

[H]

although i believe Ship busters can, because they specifically target one vessel, and can be intercepted, having no blast radius.

 

[Burger]

If you CAF! with a G'Quan for example, you get re-rolls on all other weapons as usual. You can fire your E-mines too, but they must be centred on the CAF target, and do not get re-rolls. And hiff is right about ship busters, because they lose the Energy Mine trait.

 

[lastbesthope]

although i believe Ship busters can, because they specifically target one vessel, and can be intercepted, having no blast radius.

Ship Breakers can CAF because they lose the E-mine trait.

Any weapon with the E-mine trait cannot CAF.

LBH

 

[Celisasu]

There's something funny about the idea of CAF'd E-Mines.


Concentrate all those massive dispersed explosions on the White Star!

 

[cordas]

There's something funny about the idea of CAF'd E-Mines.


Concentrate all those massive dispersed explosions on the White Star!

It would be a nice idea..... but can't see any way it could possibly work.

 

[Valen is my name]

if you want to concentrate your e-mines don't you just fire them all into the same point in space?!

 

[Ripple]

Funny, given the way explosions work it actually makes more sense than concentrating say a beam.

I fire my beam at a ship, how exactly can I concentrate more than a standard shot? What exactly am I doing? Do i not normally try to maintain contact with the enemy hull as long as possible for the one shot?

Now I fire my e-mines, target the explosions as close to the hull as possible, we want maximum effect on that one vessel. Don't just get them into the blast area, put it right up there nose.

Explosions actually are more damaging the closer you get. Just seems kinda funny to me from that perspective. Now if concentrate all fire really means 'helm, hold steady to give the weapons man the best shot' or 'use all the guns at once, not like usual where we cycle the firing, damn the risk to the barrels' I could see it I guess. But that should still help out the mines just as much. (better targeting and/or more mines thrown)

Would still only be re-rolls on the targeted ship, not anything else caught in the blast, but still.

Ripple

 

[Burger]

I think the logic behind CAF is that you are dedicating all of the ship's tracking and targetting computers to locking onto just the one target, instead of multiple. Therefore you have more processing power to keep the beam aimed at the target as it tries to move out of the way.

With e-mines, you just fire and off they go, it doesn't matter how many computers you dedicate to maintaining the target lock, once they are fired it is too late.

Now, how does CAF work with missiles, again??

 

[captainsmirk]

Now, how does CAF work with missiles, again??

Umm...

Unlike E-Mines missiles are guided. If they are anything like modern ship based missiles they will be guided by the parent ship (or a helicopter admittedly but thats only neccessary due to the curvature of the earth, not a problem in space) most of the way and use their own terminal homing (if any) only at the very end.


Nick

 

[cordas]

I think the logic behind CAF is that you are dedicating all of the ship's tracking and targetting computers to locking onto just the one target, instead of multiple. Therefore you have more processing power to keep the beam aimed at the target as it tries to move out of the way.

With e-mines, you just fire and off they go, it doesn't matter how many computers you dedicate to maintaining the target lock, once they are fired it is too late.

Now, how does CAF work with missiles, again??

Exactly the same as it does for beams... the firing ship is able to keep a far better lock on the target, and is relaying the info to the missile to keep its tracking guidance upto date Makes as much sense as CAF does anyway...

 

[Captain Kremmen]

You could not normally CAF with a G'Quan anyway because of the boresight beam weapon?

Cpt K

 

[Burger]

Fair enough about the missiles. Your technobabble is greater than mine

You could not normally CAF with a G'Quan anyway because of the boresight beam weapon?

You can with its other weapons. And the beam if the target doesn't move and you had it boresighted last turn, or use a planet, etc.