On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Paul Tobia wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Mark A Shieh wrote:
<<SNIP>>
> > 2) Dogfighting
> >
> > It says to work your way down from initiative. It doesn't
> > mention alternating fire. Does this mean that if I have 5 Nightwings
> > (4/2 assault) and 5 Fighta-Bommerz(3/2 assault), each of the
> > Nightwings will try to shoot one of the Fighta-Bommerz before they can
> > retaliate? This could suck for the Orks.
>
> Remeber that flyer detachments on Intercept go first. If two detachments
> are on Intercept and in the same location then the higher intercept value
> does get to go first.
This is only true with a tie in intercept value on intercepting units. If
both sides don't have units on intercept, the higher intercept goes first,
even if it was the unit on ground attack.
> The way around this (and Nighthawks in general) is take more than one
> detachment of flyers.
>
> Let me show you and example I had two nights ago. I had two dets. of
> Marauders (3 each) and one det. of T-bolts (3). My enemy had one det. of
> Nightwings (5) and one det. of Phoenix Bombers (5). We declared at the
> beginning (before Move init. was drawn) and basically all bombers went on
> Ground Attack and all fighters went on Intercept.
>
> I won Move init. so I began by placing one Marauder det. on the board. He
> summariily placed his Nightwings to Intercept. Then I placed my other
> Marauder det. away from the first. Since he had no other dets. in
> Intercept the second group was unhindered. Yes the first group took some
> hits (one destroyed, one damaged) but the second group of 3 were
> untouched.
>
> Now to his turn... he places the Phoenixes and I get free hits with my
> T-bolts because his Nightwings have been used this turn. If he would have
> used his Nightwings to protect his bombers then both of my Marauder groups
> would be free and clear.
>
> So, in summary, Eldar flyers are a bitch, but there are so many
> permutations of deployment, declaration, and placement, that even Tyrnaids
> will have a chance to do some damamge.
Yep. If you have more detachments of flyers, you can spread them out and
prevent the better, while better, but less numerous troops can only kill
off some of the other flyers.
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