Awful Green Things Crew Escape Rules Question

[dduluard]

Hi All,

I'm hoping for some clarification regarding crew escape. According to the rulebook, the crew moves into a boat bay and announces they are escaping, ignoring monsters. Does announcing escape mean that the boat must launch that turn, or can the crew player wait until the boat is full? If the latter, can the monsters attack the crew in a boat that hasn't launched?

Thanks!

[Solelron]

IIRC intent is that crew says we escape they launch automatically and the rest of the crew is stuck with whatever is left.

[sir_pudding]

If you are using the Outside the Znutar rules you can have the boats loiter in space.