Starship Combat Questions

[tatsuken]

In the basic starship combat section it says that firing a weapon on a starship is all full round action. If this is so, how do small one man ships like starfighters engage in combat? Does this mean they can't perform any mauevers in a round (other than fly straight which is a free action) in which they plan to fire weapons?

Are there rules for being both the pilot and the gunner on a small (under 50 tons) starship?

 

[Eric]

Starfighters would have fixed mounted weapons not turrets. There for, moving you ship and targeting your weapon are essentially the same action.

 

[cmdrx]

There are no specific rules in the book for small craft, but I have house ruled it as such:

Weapons in a fixed position can be fired as a standard action. i.e. you can move and then fire.

Weapons in a turret require the full round action.

This works for fighters with fixed mounts and turrets that have been locked into a forward position. Mind you on a starship, if you are the lone pilot it's almost better to let the computer fire while you perform evasion actions.

 

[tatsuken]

Thank you, that makes sense. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that problem.

 

[Zutroi]

Keep in mind that while your pilot is doing a full round action of evasive manuevering, your gunners are doing their full round actions of blasting away at things... Very few ships have a crew of one!

 

[tatsuken]

Unless they're one man fighters.