Specialist Arms Forum
Battlefleet Gothic => [BFG] Rules Questions => Topic started by: yari on April 07, 2015, 01:21:01 AM
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When an wave of attack craft are making their attack on an enemy ship, do they have to keep formation?
I had a line of fighters as a 'picket' in front of my ships with gaps too small to get through for a 20mm base.
My opponent blasted one fighter so there was a bigger gap his attack craft could get through.
The wave was 8 strong assault boats in a 4 by 2 formation and he wanted to attack with all. What happens now?
The formation could not fit through the gap (only a single 20mm base could get through at a time) so do the assault boats have to go through 1 at a time in waves of 1 or can they conga through single file?
Thanks
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IIRC, yes, AC waves must keep formation. You can split larger waves up into smaller ones, as per the example you gave (good luck with that ;)), but they couldn't "conga" through.
Hope that helps!
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Yes, it does
Ta
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As an aside, if you launch a wave of 8 AC, shouldn't they be in 3x3 formation because of the 2010FAQ?
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Hmmm, not sure I thought the wording was that you had to create the wave in a fashion which made the least 'circumference' or outer distance. In the case of 8 markers, that would be a 2 x 4 blob, as a 3x3 blob with one missing would actually have an outer measurement of 14 edges, while a 2 x 4 would only have 12 edges.
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hmm, that makes sense.