Asking to see dials or maneuvers

By wurms, in X-Wing Rules Questions

What is the official tournament ruling on opponents asking to see your ships maneuver dial, because they don't know its maneuvers? It's legal to print out the maneuver reference sheets, right? But if someone asks to see my dial, can I refuse? I never have, nor probably ever will, but if a player is ever a total **** during the game, I want to know my options.

Recently, like half my games at tournaments, its a crucial round in the game, I set my dials, then my opponent asks what the greens are on my ship, or to see the dial itself. So I have to pick my dial up, spin it around, and hand to them. Really annoying. One game, I was flying the Inquisitor, and my opponent ask the guy playing on the table next to us if he could see the Inquisitor's dial. "Im like WTF?" He didn't even ask me to see my ships dial first. He just interrupted someone else's game.

I feel like players either need to know the maneuvers or else print a reference sheet of their own. I have never refused to show my dial to anyone, but I am getting really annoyed with the amount of times I have to hand my dials over.

You're required to provide that information if asked. You're not required to hand over your dial. Either print out a combined reference sheet of your own or take the specific-ship sheets with you to big tournaments.

8 minutes ago, wurms said:

I feel like players either need to know the maneuvers or else print a reference sheet of their own. I have never refused to show my dial to anyone, but I am getting really annoyed with the amount of times I have to hand my dials over.

I always hand my dial over, since it provides the least information possible. It's too easy to ask "Biggs, he's got a Green-3, right?" and then, if I check my own dial, to realize that, if the 3-straight were what I had just planned it, I'd likely know it's color. You want to know anything about my ship's basic movement...let me scramble my dial and hand it right over. It's too easy to social-engineer the other way.