Hi guys,

When exactly is a ship classed as over lapping an obstacle?? I am thinking here, after it has completed it's move, does it physically need to be over lapping?? Or is touching classed as over lapping.

It has come up for me quite a bit recently, and I cannot find the answer, people seem to play it differently.

Thx

Paul

only if the base is actually on the obstacle, is it on the obstacle.

Hold the obstacle down, hold the template down, if you can fit the whole base, including nubs, onto the tabletop, it's not on the obstacle. If any part of it clips the obstacle, it is.

Although unlike with other ships if the maneuver template ever goes over an obstacle then the ship has as well.

For an Asteroid this means rolling for damage and losing the Perform Action step but as long as the ship's final resting place is not on the Asteroid it may make it's attacks.

Or is touching classed as over lapping.

There is only "overlapping" and "not overlapping".

Mathematically, no normal maneuver ever makes a ship touch an obstacle perfectly . It either overlaps or there's a tiny gap. But the difference can be so small that the natural imprecision of moving ships by hand overwhelms it. That's why you see different groups handle it differently.