Can you do it?
I know you may not barrel roll if it would cause you to overlap another ship.
However, can you maneuver....barrel roll into a clear area...then position your ship along your legal area to barrel roll, forward or back, for the result that the two ships are touching, thus, may not fire at one another or for use of the Intimidation EPT?
Can you do it?
I know you may not barrel roll if it would cause you to overlap another ship.
However, can you maneuver....barrel roll into a clear area...then position your ship along your legal area to barrel roll, forward or back, for the result that the two ships are touching, thus, may not fire at one another or for use of the Intimidation EPT?
This does not result in "Touching". This results in the ships being "Adjacent".
"Touching" can only result from overlap.
As noted you may be touching in a physical sense but you aren't "touching" in a rules sense which will prevent attacks from being made or other touching things to take place. At present the only way that "touching" happens is if there was an overlap; the Stationary Maneuver can hold "touching" that has already happened but that's it without a new overlap.
Good answer guys. Thank you.
I'd like to point out that this is incredibly unlikely to happen in an actual game. Unless your ships started off adjacent, and then made a straight maneuver, then barrel rolled, I don't foresee this happening like...ever.
But I suppose crazier things have happened
The situation isn't so unlikely. You just need another ship to your side but not DIRECTLY to the side which would completely prevent the BR in that direction.
You could also barrel role and end up touching physically to the front or back of your ship because you can control the forward/backwards part of the movement. This is much more likely than rolding and contacting a ship on your side.
You could also barrel role and end up touching physically to the front or back of your ship because you can control the forward/backwards part of the movement. This is much more likely than rolding and contacting a ship on your side.
That is normally how it happens unless you're just looking at your teammate who was flying beside you and just rolled the same way. Straight left or right will rarely put you in super close proximity (touching but not) but when there is room to move the forward/back part of the roll could put you into near contact.