Heya guys
I got a Question about a Specific Turn. Just help me out here;
So I am the Yin; the other guy plays L1Z1X:
Me: I have my mothership online and use it together with two carriers and a shitton of GF to cap a planet. End my turn. GF are on the Planet.
Other guy: Activates the same system and moves his 5 Dreadnoughts in. Since he has Assault Cannons online they have prefire.
so:
First things first; Van Haugh can utilize GFs as fighters in Space combat. The other Guy argued that prefire always happens BEFORE the actual space combat so I can not use my GF to tank the hits. I can not deny that it sounds plausible and let it pass. The van Haugh lives though because he is unlucky as hell and misses 3 hits. one of the carrier dies and the Van Haugh takes a hit.
So as I mentioned before; I placed the Groundforces on the Ground before. Other guy insists that I may not use them because the "as though as they were fighters"- clause sounds to him like they have to be in ship or a spacedock with fighter capacity. The playgroup disagrees and I can use them.
At this point, though not relevant to the battle itself, the question comes up if "as though as they were fighters" also means that there has to be sufficient Fighter capacity in the system for the groundforces to participate.
4 Qeustions came up in this situation:
1.Can the Van Haugh use Groundforces to tank up pre-combat fire?
2.When defending: do the Groundforces have to be in Space (in a ship) in order to be utilized as fighters? Or can the do that from the Planet surface as well?
3.When defending: do Groundforces that are used "as though they were fighters" count towards your FIGHTER-capacity?
4.Do they profit from fighter and/or GF techs when used "as though they were fighters"?