So in a forum post I read that a ship can perform as many Anti Squadron attacks as there are squadrons in range.

Now I thought ships only get two attacks regardless of whether you're firing on ships or squadrons. You get two shots, select wisely sortve deal.

How does anti squadron actually work?

9 minutes ago, Forresto said:

So in a forum post I read that a ship can perform as many Anti Squadron attacks as there are squadrons in range.

Now I thought ships only get two attacks regardless of whether you're firing on ships or squadrons. You get two shots, select wisely sortve deal.

How does anti squadron actually work?

That is he main reason @Drasnighta suggested the use of two different terms: attacks and salvos.

During its activation every ship has two attacks (salvos). But while attacking the last step is to choose and attack another squadron you didn't attack yet with the same hull zone. So in fact you shoot to every squadron in range from the same hull zone.

From the RRG

6. Declare Additional Squadron Target : If the attacker is a ship and the defender was a squadron, the attacker can declare another enemy squadron as a defender and repeat steps 2 through 6. The new defender must be inside the firing arc and at attack range of the same attacking hull zone. Each enemy squadron can be targeted only once per attack.

EDIT: at the end you go always from 1 to 6. If you are attacking a ship, when you reach step 6 you do nothing and end the attack but if you are attacking a squadron and you are a ship you basically eat, sleep, rave, repeat until you couldn't choose another valid target (another squadron you didn't attack yet).

Another way to think of it is that "One Attack" is either one ship, or all the squadrons.

Of course, that line of thinking gets you in trouble with cards that say things like "once per attack," and similar, because while shooting all five squadrons off the port side is "one attack" it is also five attacks. This is why Dras suggested that the wording be changed to say you get "Two Salvos," and each salvo is either one ship, or all the squadrons.