Carriers with breaching pods?

[deathwalker]

Can a carrier which has breaching pods on board, have half of them pre-launched at game start as per fighters rule?

 

[nekomata fuyu]

I don't see why not. They are fighters after all.

 

[Burger]

Yep, breaching pods "count as if they had the Fighter trait", so they are technically fighters. So not only do they count towards the total for calculating half to begin launched, they can start launched if you like.

For example if you had 12 fighters and 8 breaching pods, total fightes is 20, so you can start with 10 fighters or 5 of each or 2 fighters and 8 pods deployed (or any other combo).

 

[Greg Smith]

Remember, it is only a fleet carrier that can start with half its flights on the table. Regular carriers are limited to 1.