Hi all,

As per the title. Are my own command dials hidden to me once they are turned down?

The hidden comments on the FAQ are not explicit on this and a section of the larger local community seems to think that this is the case believing it changed due to 'dial manipulation' whilst looking.

Anyway curious as to what others believe.

Cheers

They are not, as per the rulebook.

Page 3, RRG, "Command Dials"

• A player can look at his ships’ facedown command dials at any time. When a player looks at a ship’s command dials, he must preserve the order in which the command dials are stacked.

As this is a Core Rule, in order for it to be changed , there would have to be specific Errata for that rule. Such a thing does not exist.

In Short, Hidden information is unavailable to one or more players. In the case of Command Dials, they are unavailable to One Player - your Opponent. You can view them at any time. If your opponent asks you what commands you have where, you can totally lie, unless they're Isard-ing You.

Otherwise, the Hidden Information rule applies to things like Director Isard, where you could look at their Dials at a specific point, but if you forget , and ask them later in that turn to remind you, they're under no compulsion to actually answer you truthfully.

Otherwise, it was basically a Copy-paste from the Card games, where Card Counting are a thing.

Cheers Dras