Triplanetary Combat Question

[Aman]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

As penneyft points out, though, it renders the rule useless - there would be no point in attacking multiple targets simultaneously.

Actually, there's an excellent point to attacking 3 ships at 1:1 instead of 1 ship at 3:1. If you get a D3 result, and all three ships are D1, that means they can't fight for a full turn, and next turn you can hit them again singly and possibly destroy one, or collectively and keep pounding them into submission with multiple Dx's. Even rendering 2 of the 3 ships D1 is still beneficial - they are out of the fight for a turn, so next turn you hit the lone fighter at 3:1, then return to the other ships.

The reverse logic doesn't apply, btw, there's no problem with multiple ships shooting at one ship - ganging up when you can only attack a target once a turn is obviously the best thing to do.

In any event, I was hoping there was a rule, but there's lots of ways to do it that are fair and make sense, so no big deal.