Dogfighting: Gunner or Vehicle Skill?

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by Tallor

For vehicles that shoot with relatively static weapons (braced catapults, mounted weapons on the front of a plane), would the attack roll actually be a Vehicle skill roll, since the trick is pointing the vehicle at the target? What do you think?

The rule is definitely that you attack with Gunner, though you may need to make some control rolls for the maneuvers that put you in a position where you can make that attack.

EDIT: And I think this is very fair, really: you do need to point the vehicle to point the gun, but you need to figure out where to point the gun, which is not a small problem. Obviously a fixed mounting weapon's going to differ (by familiarity) from the same weapon in a different sort of mounting.

(Aside, note that naval weapons almost never are actually fixed relative to the ship. They're at least a little bit aimable.)