ISA Questions and help

[thehod]

Hey guys I am playing ISA in a campaign and I was wondering about using allied fleets. Do you have to pay twice as much in fleet allocation points or RR to purchase ships from other fleets?

Also I would like to know some basic tactics against the Narn as seeing I constantly have a problem with Emines and the "concentrate all Fire" special action combo ripping my whitestars to peices.

 

[Greg Smith]

There's no doubling of cost for ISA. You can naver have more than 1 FAP of allies though.

You cannot fire e-mines while concentrating firepower.

 

[katadder]

unless they are ship busters

 

[thehod]

where does it say you cant concentrate all fire with emines?

 

[katadder]

well with CAF u need to choose a target and can only fire at that target, e-mines unless shipbusters are not fired at a target they are fired at an area of space, tehrefore cant CAF with e-mines.

 

[Greg Smith]

It is in one of the FAQs.

 

[lastbesthope]

It is in one of the FAQs.

I think it was in one of the rules supplements.


LBH

 

[Commador Q]

i thought you could CAF with emines but the blast radious had to be centered of the targeted ship.

 

[thehod]

anyone know where I can find the FAQs for ACTA?

 

[Gargoyle117]

I am a new player to this game as well, but I have done a lot of digging already. This is what I have found so far. If anyone knows of something else, please add it.

The SfoS FAQ can be found here:
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=995&qsSeries=28

The Earth Minbari War FAQ can be found here:
http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=1004&qsSeries=28

Now my first game is tomorrow morning. I'll be taking my fleet of ISA counters against a fleet of Centauri counters. Does anyone know where I can find counters for the WS-Fighter, WS-Gunship or the WS-Carrier? The ones in the revised boxed set did not include these.

Wish me luck.

 

[katadder]

they are new ships from armageddon so dont have counters as yet.

 

[locarno24]

Tactics-wise, you might want to try hyperspace jumps onto his rear, or failing that pacman it up the flanks with white stars....try and get out of arc of the mines before launching fighters - don't worry, ISA Nials will carve Frazi flights apart without slowing down.
If you've got a victory-class all well and good (hull 6 and adaptive armour laughs at regular energy mines) but with not really that much firepower at long range (6 neutron lasers are cool but not at armageddon priority) you may find yourself losing out to laser and mag gun fire from ka'T* and G'Qu* type ships....do not stay in the front arc of the Narn fleet with a single big ship - it's a bad plan.

Fortunately the narn have no small ships with a long ranged heavy weapon and the agility to keep it pointed at a white star...the Var'nic and G'Vrahn do, but they'll have to deal with multiple white stars each...

 

[Locutus9956]

It should be noted that in campaign play you cannot have more than 1 FAP of allies in your campaign fleet list. You can pick from that list freely. For example in a 10 pt Battle Campaign fleet you could have a maximum of 1 pt Battle of Allies (so you could have 1 Dag Kar and 2 Ka'Tocs) but you copuld if you wanted to in a 3 pt Skirmish level game field the DagKar and a Ka'Toc on its own (youd probably die with that fleet against most skirmish fleets tbh but the example is sound )

 

[Burger]

i thought you could CAF with emines but the blast radious had to be centered of the targeted ship.

I thought that too. E-mines can be fired but must be centered on the ship, and don't benefit from re-rolls.

 

[Reaverman]

i thought you could CAF with emines but the blast radious had to be centered of the targeted ship.

don't benefit from re-rolls.

Since when, and what would be the point of CAF'ng with an E-Mine, if it does not get re-rolls?

 

[Burger]

i thought you could CAF with emines but the blast radious had to be centered of the targeted ship.

don't benefit from re-rolls.

Since when, and what would be the point of CAF'ng with an E-Mine, if it does not get re-rolls?

Since it was on rulesmasters... oh whoops it got deleted.

As for whats the point, eg. a G'Quan CAFs. It gets re-rolls on all its weapons, but can still fire its e-mines, although since e-mines are area effect weapons they can't be "concentrated" so don't get the rerolls.

 

[Hash]

I thought the only restriction with CAF'ing with an e-mine is that, like with any weapon, you can only target the ship that is being CAF'ed...doesn't make sense they wouldn't get re-rolls.

How does the area effect work though? Does CAF'ing mean there is no area effect with e-mines or that there still is one but is centred on the ship that is being CAF'ed?

Maybe one for rulesmasters...unless someone can point out a convenient book reference (or just knows ) that clearly explains this?

 

[Hash]

Since it was on rulesmasters... oh whoops it got deleted.

As for whats the point, eg. a G'Quan CAFs. It gets re-rolls on all its weapons, but can still fire its e-mines, although since e-mines are area effect weapons they can't be "concentrated" so don't get the rerolls.

Ah fair enough then...

 

[Reaverman]

don't benefit from re-rolls.

Since when, and what would be the point of CAF'ng with an E-Mine, if it does not get re-rolls?

Since it was on rulesmasters... oh whoops it got deleted.

As for whats the point, eg. a G'Quan CAFs. It gets re-rolls on all its weapons, but can still fire its e-mines, although since e-mines are area effect weapons they can't be "concentrated" so don't get the rerolls.

That explains everything :twisted:

 

[Methos5000]

I have been reading some conflicting posts on the forums concerning e-mines. Some have said you can drop a mine near your own ships and damage them along with everything else, while others have said you cant even indirectly target your own ships. Which one is correct?

Im guessing they can indirectly target their own ships if they want to risk damaging them. But I would be nice to have it cleared up.