I swear I remember seeing that they can't. But the card as its posted on armada warlords simply says: "when attacking at close range".

There was a large amount of people, including myself, that think they can be used on squads.

At least that's what I remember.

That's what the Card says.

1) Be attacking.

2) At a target at Close range.

That's all you need. There's no Target Restriction.

Of course, if you fire at Squadrons, you'll only get it on one singular squadron 'shot', and not the whole arc's worth of attacks.

So a Raider 1 with racks, concentrate fire, Agent Kallus and Ordnance Experts, that's a lot of damage on your chosen victim squadron. 6 reroll able black dice.

7 minutes ago, Mad Cat said:

So a Raider 1 with racks, concentrate fire, Agent Kallus and Ordnance Experts, that's a lot of damage on your chosen victim squadron. 6 reroll able black dice.

Braced to 3 !

6 hours ago, Flengin said:

Braced to 3 !

And then Mauler Rams Jan into oblivion!

On 6/30/2017 at 8:52 PM, Mad Cat said:

So a Raider 1 with racks, concentrate fire, Agent Kallus and Ordnance Experts, that's a lot of damage on your chosen victim squadron. 6 reroll able black dice.

On 6/30/2017 at 9:00 PM, Flengin said:

Braced to 3 !

On 7/1/2017 at 3:52 AM, Mad Cat said:

And then Mauler Rams Jan into oblivion!

Mad Cat on point, but in general I feel like if you want the raider to be running AA you should go flechettes, and if you are gonna be forced to drop racks on a target try and pick a high health squad that cant brace/scatter.

I mean, you sure can, but would you? MAYBE to get like the last couple hits on Maarek/Jendon/Jan/Biggs, but that seems situational. I would rather murderface the carrier with Racks, personally.

20 hours ago, Caldias said:

I mean, you sure can, but would you? MAYBE to get like the last couple hits on Maarek/Jendon/Jan/Biggs, but that seems situational. I would rather murderface the carrier with Racks, personally.

In the right circumstances I'm absolutely fine using concentrate fire for a clutch extra die on Raider flak against a priority target. If I'm willing to do that in the right situation, I would happily pop the External Racks in similar circumstances to mess up an important squadron.

I agree that my primary targets would ideally be ships, though.

On 6/30/2017 at 8:00 PM, Flengin said:

Braced to 3 !

AND SCATTERED TO 0 !

Uhh.... Why is this not getting more air time as our to-come savior of ship AA?

I am very surprised that the card is actually worded as such. I wonder if its a typo. Looks too good to be true.

On June 30, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Undeadguy said:

There was a large amount of people, including myself, that think they can be used on squads.

At least that's what I remember.

I swore I read that it couldn't and people were arguing it couldn't. Maybe I just misremembered.

To answer this question? I think its Mostly because its a Discard, and thus, only useful on a single shot. So if you're not packing Blue as part of your AA, its still going to be scattered away by a Scatter Ace, or Braced to 1 by a Brace Ace...

People hate discards that don't have massive effects. On odds, this'll do less damage than Cluster Bombs. - In its favour is you are actively triggering it, ratehr than waiting for your opponent to do something... But still.

It is cheap, but you're going to be sucking up your Ordnance slots to do it - and that slot is prime for doing damage to ships for most people.

Fletchettes started to change that game, and at the same cost as them - it has competition.

Yeah External Racks aren't nearly as good against squads as the identically-priced Flechette Torpedoes, but they are flexible in their (one) use and can (and should in most cases) be used against ships.

I had a hammerhead that was on 1 hull and 100% chance of death before next turn, so I blew them on a squadron and it was glorious. I mean, if you are going to lose it, might as well use it. That is about the only time I think it would be worth using on a squadron, but at least the card gives you the option, decreasing the chance it will end up getting taken off the board face up.

On July 7, 2017 at 11:41 AM, BrobaFett said:

I had a hammerhead that was on 1 hull and 100% chance of death before next turn, so I blew them on a squadron and it was glorious. I mean, if you are going to lose it, might as well use it. That is about the only time I think it would be worth using on a squadron, but at least the card gives you the option, decreasing the chance it will end up getting taken off the board face up.

Oh I use them on squadrons a LOT. =) To great effect. Win by lots of points. Reduce damage hugely.

Sounds like a good way to make use of the Ordinance slot on the Pelta Assault. 3 points spent flexibly; pop it on a ship if you can, but if you need it for a particular squadron you can do so. It already has a blue you can fish for an accuracy with(though two would be nice)