Two Corvette Questions

By PenguinBonaparte, in X-Wing Rules Questions

I'm confused. If the huge ships activate in their own PS skill track, after all small ships, don't they fire after all of them too? We looked at the manual today and didn't see any reference to firing order.

The other one is about the blind spot. They printed a full 360 on the token for the main turret weapon, but the rules seems to say that if the line from the center of the central base to the peg of the target ship crosses the blue line you can't target it. This gives a huge blind spot. Is this correct?

As far as I can tell it only moves after the small /large ships during activation.

As for attacking it goes in ps order.

Your second question your are correct I believe.

It does have a 360 arch, but it can't shoot behind due to it crossing the blue line.

That too me doesn't make sense, but that's how I see it too

I have not read the rules for the CR90 yet, so I can't say if the blind spot thing is the correct internpretation. How ever, it is very thematicaly correct, atleast for any one who have played any of the X-Wing/Tie-Fighter PC-games. The Corellian Corvettes had a huge blind spot in the rear where you could easily park yourself and poud away with your guns unhindered... as long as it had no escort fighters ofcource.

Yeah, makes sense withe game and I like it for gameplay, just not the opening scene of ANH. Kind of like how you could sit inside a Star Destroyer's engines until they added engine wash in X-wing vs. Tie Fighter. Sadly, going into the hangar of a Nebulon B didn't save you. :(

Just looking at the model you can see how the engines might get in the way of firing towards the rear.

And thematically, these were blockade runners, designed to punch through lines of ships and go like a bat out of hell. Makes sense most of their weapons would face forward.

Space is 3 dimensional. Hard to think that a decent pilot wouldn't adjust to get guns a chance to fire.

Space is 3 dimensional. Hard to think that a decent pilot wouldn't adjust to get guns a chance to fire.

Hard to think that a decent TIE pilot wouldn't adjust, keeping his ship in the blind spot.

A TIE is probably more maneuverable than a corvette.

Space is 3 dimensional. Hard to think that a decent pilot wouldn't adjust to get guns a chance to fire.

Hard to think that a decent TIE pilot wouldn't adjust, keeping his ship in the blind spot.

A TIE is probably more maneuverable than a corvette.

That's a pretty big Assumption...my money is on the Corvette! ;)

It states in the cr90 rules that everything than the movement of the ship remains the same. So the corvette moves after all small and large ships but fires according to PS.