Double Boresight Attempts

[Sulfurdown]

The last game I played brought up an interesting question about boresights. Up until we actually laided it out the idea of a double boresight it didn't seem that hard to get, but when we actually had two ships attempting to line up we began to question if it was even possible unless you move your ship directly into the opponent's boresight, which I think you'd need to declare as such and would be foolish. Otherwise the second ship moving will be moving off plane and turning to boresight the first ship. Every turn after that would repeat this unless you lay out a complex double boresight, baiting efforts or using all stops & pivot, etc.

Has anyone really had two ships boresight each other in a game?

 

[Burger]

What you are describing, I would call mutual boresight rather than double boresight. A double boresight would be one ship boresighting 2 others in the same turn, and is quite easy to achieve.

If you're using declared boresights rather than eyeball, there aren't many ways to get mutual boresights. Examples would be:

1) as you said, A declares he is moving into B's boresight then turns to boresight B himself
2) both performed All Stop And Pivot the previous turn, and boresighted each other
3) A is boresighting B, B performs All Stop And Pivot to boresight A; B cannot fire this turn but next turn both could All Stop, CAF, APTE or simply not turn, and remain mutually boresighted.
4) A moves, B boresights A, then a gravitic shifter is used on A to make him boresight B :lol: (you can't fire the GS on your own ships so your opponent would have to do the last step for you...)

 

[chaos0xomega]

What you are describing, I would call mutual boresight rather than double boresight. A double boresight would be one ship boresighting 2 others in the same turn, and is quite easy to achieve.

How is it possible to line 3 ships up in a perfectly straight line?(3 ships = boresighted ship, target a and target b)

 

[Sulfurdown]

After two ships have moved it's possible to draw a line between them. As long as you have a ship that can stop on that line and turn to boresight one of them - you've got yourself a double boresight.


(My original post was indeed better termed a mutual boresight, my bad.)

Thanks, Burger, I wasn't sure if I was missing some glaringly obvious way to achieve a MB/S without someone deliberately aiding the enemy or an all stop & pivot.

 

[Triggy]

After two ships have moved it's possible to draw a line between them. As long as you have a ship that can stop on that line and turn to boresight one of them - you've got yourself a double boresight.


(My original post was indeed better termed a mutual boresight, my bad.)

Thanks, Burger, I wasn't sure if I was missing some glaringly obvious way to achieve a MB/S without someone deliberately aiding the enemy or an all stop & pivot.

Or the opponent could just like shish kebabs