I made a post illustrating examples and counter-examples of obstacle placement, which give a subtle difference when you apply the text to the letter in the epic tournament FAQ.

http://teamcovenant.com/mu0n/2015/08/13/obstacles-rules-interpretation-std-dogfight-vs-epic-mode/

There are some errors still left in the epic tournament faq that FFG should be fixing soon.

Good article is good. Thanks.

I'd like to see FFG bring clarity. If that's how they actually want things deployed I'd be surprised. I'd expect that it's supposed to be 'deploy two obstacles at the same time, not at range one of each other, within range 2-3 of each other.'

Maybe I'm mistaken though.

Jacob

Thanks for the post!

In my first epic game, my opponent and I got the rules confused, and we ended up with a weird configuration of asteroids such that the final pair had almost nowhere on the board it could fit. Clarifying the "within" versus "at" wording would have fixed the whole problem for us.

hmm, so the rules are not updated to debris clouds yet.

Oh well since it is all casual anyways house rule in some debris clouds.

Before the debris clouds we used some of the satellite tokens and made them give out ion tokens when they hit but are removed if it is hit by a huge ship or a small/large ship.

Thanks, Mu0n. I'm definitely going to be dipping into Epic as soon as I pick up my Raider and this is perfect.