[FT] PDS as direct fire weapons

One we just ran into in a game,

May a PDS fire at a ship directly to the aft if the ship has fired its main
drives?

We played that it may since it may fire at fighters to the aft, but couldn't
find anything on it in the rules. Of course this would bring up the type one
beams...

Where is the option for using PDS as direct fire weopens?

The_Beast

> On 22-Jul-99 at 08:59, devans@uneb.edu (devans@uneb.edu) wrote:

> On 22-Jul-99 at 08:59, devans@uneb.edu (devans@uneb.edu) wrote:

Its not in the new PDS rules area. It is on the icon description page
(?)
which is the page prior to and opposite the first page of the NAC ships IIRC.

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Its not in the new PDS rules area. It is on the icon description page
(?)
which is the page prior to and opposite the first page of the NAC ships IIRC.

Dean
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That would explain it, though I'm still embarassed. It keeps being a new game
to me, given every time I keep finding rules I've been
mis-interpreting. Night fore last, I used Class 1's slaved to AFDC's,
sorry, Hobie, and failed to fire Class 1's out my rear arc when I had done
course changes, but no accel or decel, you're welcome, Hobie.

I have a faint memory of one or the other being declared a typo, and I think
it was allowing PDS in anti-ship mode. I'd have to do better at
searching the archives than I have so far to know one way or another.

I am totally ambivalent about which way to go with the rear arc thing.

I'm hoping we'll continue using the weak PDS's at the local gaming store.

The_Beast

You do need a seperate fire con if you are firing it at a different target to
what your other weapons are firing at.

Slim

[quoted original message omitted]

Fleet Book 1 page 12.
Also PDS does not require a FCS even in anti-ship role and screens do
not effect the roll to hit.

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Brian Bell
http://fly.to/fullthrust

> Slim wrote:

> You do need a seperate fire con if you are firing it at a different

No, you don't. FB page 12.

Regards,