I ran into what I thought was a non issue but I was given a very convincing argument. If the Striker bumps during its Adaptive Aileron's move does it lose its action. The rule does state,

”A ship must skip its perform action step if it overlapped another ship while executing a maneuver."

The title does call it a maneuver. What's your guys thoughts on this.

The designers have already said that bumping with ailerons doesn't cause you to skip your action; I'd assume that's how it will be FAQed. BUt I doubt that will be before xmas at this stage.

They already said that you can perform your action after bumping with the ailerons. If you bump with your dial manevuer you miss out.

Cool, where did they say that?

Team covenant video interview is where I heard it.

Edit:

If you don't want to watch the interview, FFG has responded to an email about bumping on a maneuvers outside of the Execute Maneuver step during a ship's activation.

The question asked uses an example of Tycho with Daredevil getting an action from Lando so that FFG would answer it as they do not answer questions about unreleased content.

The response was:

'A ship only skips its “Perform Action” step when it overlaps another ship during the “Execute Maneuver” step of the Activation phase. So Tyco would not skip his “Perform Action” step in your example.'

The FAQ probably wont show up until we get the rest of wave10. Otherwise they'd have to re-faq in less than a month.

What happens when the ship hits an asteroid with ailerons but is clear with its regular manoeuver? We ruled that the ship would roll for damage but would keep his action but we werent sure. And what about if it was some debris? Would the ship get the stress if it overlaps only with the ailerons?

What happens when the ship hits an asteroid with ailerons but is clear with is regular manoeuver? We ruled that the ship would roll for damage but would keep his action but werent sure. And what about if it was some debris? Would the ship get the stress if it overlap only with the ailerons?

I think the current ruling is that obstacle effects happen at any time regardless of whether a ship is completing a maneuver or not. Debris field would apply stress and ship would roll for damage. As to an action after aileronning over an asteroid? I'm not sure...

And the obvious follow-up: what happens if you've dialed up a red maneuver but have a stress after the aileron movement across debris? Straight 2 or complete the red and have a pair of stress? If you've dialed up a green the debris stress goes away and all is right again.

And the obvious follow-up: what happens if you've dialed up a red maneuver but have a stress after the aileron movement across debris? Straight 2 or complete the red and have a pair of stress? If you've dialed up a green the debris stress goes away and all is right again.

Aileron happens before revealing your dial. You would treat the stress gained from hitting debris during that maneuver the same way that you would treat stress from any other source. If you reveal a red maneuver while stressed, you preform a white 2 straight. If that causes you to hit the debris a second time you'd get a second stress and roll for damage again.

What happens when the ship hits an asteroid with ailerons but is clear with is regular manoeuver? We ruled that the ship would roll for damage but would keep his action but werent sure. And what about if it was some debris? Would the ship get the stress if it overlap only with the ailerons?

I think the current ruling is that obstacle effects happen at any time regardless of whether a ship is completing a maneuver or not. Debris field would apply stress and ship would roll for damage. As to an action after aileronning over an asteroid? I'm not sure...

Per the rules on obstacles, you'd lose your perform action step for hitting an asteroid with the Ailerons maneuver. FFG hasn't mentioned any sort of exception to the rules for that.

Can you explain as I don't agree. I believe we've argued this back and forth multiple times, but:

You do your aileron, hit a debris, get a stress, roll a Dice for damage, reveal dial (green maneuver), move, then the perform action step occurs. Well past the aileron debris bump (as long as your template didn't overlap the debris when moving off it obvs)

Debris specifically would not deny your action, as debris doesnt deny actions to begin with. The stress it gives you denies actions, which if you did a green move and didnt hit it twice to get a 2nd stress you would get your actions.

Rocks deny action steps, and overlapping. Both in email and that interview they said it doesnt, so were just waiting for the wave10 FAQ to drop.

Can you explain as I don't agree. I believe we've argued this back and forth multiple times, but:

You do your aileron, hit a debris, get a stress, roll a Dice for damage, reveal dial (green maneuver), move, then the perform action step occurs. Well past the aileron debris bump (as long as your template didn't overlap the debris when moving off it obvs)

There are three steps (with sub-steps) that each ship performs during its activation:

1. Reveal Dial

2. Execute Maneuver

3. Perform Action

The rules for overlapping asteroids require that you skip your Perform Action step when a maneuver causes the overlap. It doesn't matter what step you are in when the overlap occurs. Hitting an asteroid with the Aileron maneuver isn't that much different than Advanced Sensors. Both of them occur at essentially the same time (before revealing your dial) and both require that you skip your Perform Action step.

Rocks deny action steps, and overlapping. Both in email and that interview they said it doesnt, so were just waiting for the wave10 FAQ to drop.

I haven't seen/heard a statement from FFG regard Ailerons and asteroids. It was just bumping ships that I recall that they were making an exception for.

Why on earth would it not deny your action for one situation but permit the other?

Thats some 40k level of inconsistency right there.

Why on earth would it not deny your action for one situation but permit the other?

Thats some 40k level of inconsistency right there.

It's two different blocks of rules. It's entirely possible that they will change both but there is no reason to assume that they will. The big difference is that (in most cases) you will be able to account for obstacles when setting your dial and your opponent is not able to use obstacles to ensure that you are constantly losing actions. If you hit an obstacle with your Aileron move, it's your own fault.

It all depends on what rule change FFG is actually planning on making to support their ruling. FFG has basically came out and said "ignore what the rules say in this case of overlapping another ship, do this instead".

This is one of the strongest thing about the Striker, with the awesome pattern of maneuvers. Who cares about Koyogram when you can move bank, move hard and barrel roll back? Or with EU, bank, hard, boost?

That's near to be an unblockable ship. You can block his title maneuver, but it's hard to block it AND his maneuver.

This ship is amazing

Why on earth would it not deny your action for one situation but permit the other?

Thats some 40k level of inconsistency right there.

It's two different blocks of rules. It's entirely possible that they will change both but there is no reason to assume that they will. The big difference is that (in most cases) you will be able to account for obstacles when setting your dial and your opponent is not able to use obstacles to ensure that you are constantly losing actions. If you hit an obstacle with your Aileron move, it's your own fault.

It all depends on what rule change FFG is actually planning on making to support their ruling. FFG has basically came out and said "ignore what the rules say in this case of overlapping another ship, do this instead".

They may be different paragraphs but theyre the same idea: your ship hit something -> bad thing happens. Quite frankly im surprised bumping doesnt cause damage and hitting a ship was just included in the obstacles rules.

Like i said, thats some 40k level of inconsistency. Paragraph-specific ruling, not idea ruling. Its one of the reasons 40k is such a pain to play with anyone that tries to be uber strict to the rules because it causes a ton of "that makes 0 sense" comments. It got bad enough where down to the specific instance of a rule clash it would go one way instead of the other, despite it not directly saying it does.

Why on earth would it not deny your action for one situation but permit the other?

Thats some 40k level of inconsistency right there.

It's two different blocks of rules. It's entirely possible that they will change both but there is no reason to assume that they will. The big difference is that (in most cases) you will be able to account for obstacles when setting your dial and your opponent is not able to use obstacles to ensure that you are constantly losing actions. If you hit an obstacle with your Aileron move, it's your own fault.

It all depends on what rule change FFG is actually planning on making to support their ruling. FFG has basically came out and said "ignore what the rules say in this case of overlapping another ship, do this instead".

They may be different paragraphs but theyre the same idea: your ship hit something -> bad thing happens. Quite frankly im surprised bumping doesnt cause damage and hitting a ship was just included in the obstacles rules.

Like i said, thats some 40k level of inconsistency. Paragraph-specific ruling, not idea ruling. Its one of the reasons 40k is such a pain to play with anyone that tries to be uber strict to the rules because it causes a ton of "that makes 0 sense" comments. It got bad enough where down to the specific instance of a rule clash it would go one way instead of the other, despite it not directly saying it does.

But they are two different blocks of rules that explicitly contradict the ruling from FFG. It's not a gray area in the rules that can be interpreted one way or the other. I expect to see the rules for bumping to receive errata in the forthcoming FAQ to make them consistent with this ruling.

Which part of hitting an obstacle would you skip if you hit it with your Aileron maneuver? FFG finally issued errata for what happens when you overlap an asteroid doing anything that is not a maneuver. I suppose that they could further extend that to "performing a maneuver during the Execute Maneuver step of the Activation phase".

I've submitted a rules question to FFG to see if they intended that ruling to also cover asteroids.

Here's the question that I submitted:

Team covenant video interview is where I heard it.

Edit:

Alex explains it at about the 20:00 mark.

Movement timing chat with next FAQ?

Eh, not sure if we need that.

Going down that path for sure but i doubt its necessary yet.