does Tactical Jammer block Assault missile attacks as well?? meaning if i have a couple of small ships tucked in behind a big base ship would they still get hit by them? "Splash damage effect" ??? Tac Jammer " Your ship can obstruct enemy attacks."
Tactical Jammer
No - assault missile splash damage is simply that - just damage - it isn't considered a hit or an attack - it is the result of a successful attack / hit
That sucks.. BUT it would help increase the use of missiles or at least assault missiles... Something I think this game needs. Missiles just don't seem to be cost effective to me at least...
That sucks.. BUT it would help increase the use of missiles or at least assault missiles... Something I think this game needs. Missiles just don't seem to be cost effective to me at least...
I'm not sure I understand your point. Tactical jammer allows the ship equipped with it to obstruct enemy attacks... Meaning if you try to shoot at one of my ships through a ship with the jammer I roll an additional defense die. It makes my ship a flying obstacle (at least in the sense of obstructing attacks).
yes meaning i would want to hide my ships behind it. but assault missiles would still damage them to a degree. just saying that over all I am all for the use of more missiles in the game as i think they are over costed. however even if in this case it actually doesn't help me..
Sounds as if you're reading the card, and assigning your own meaning to what obstructed means. Obstructed does not mean blocked, hidden or immune to damage. Obstructed is defined in the rulebook
When measuring range during combat, if the edge of
the range ruler between the closest points
of the two ships overlaps an obstacle token, the
attack is considered obstructed. Because of this
obstruction, the defender rolls one additional defense
die during the “Roll Defense Dice” step of this attack.
So Tactical Jammer doesn't block or prevent missile shots, nor does it block or prevent normal attacks. It just makes the target harder to hit.
yeah yeah i figured that one out..lol for some dumb reason i was thinking totally Blocks everything..... forgot that all it would do is just gives the blocked object an extra green dice... still helpful.
By the way, when counting range through TJ equiped ship do we count the whole area the ship occupies as an obstacle for the shot or only if the shot goes through the ships base?
54 minutes ago, topacesteve said:By the way, when counting range through TJ equiped ship do we count the whole area the ship occupies as an obstacle for the shot or only if the shot goes through the ships base?
You measure closest to closest. Does that line pass through the ship carrying tactical jammer or not?
Only the base counts.