Talk:Mercenary Copilot/@comment-184.74.162.10-20180208190302/@comment-454133-20180208194237

Unlike Tactician, this effect doesn't restrict the range measurement to "in arc". Thus the special edge case Tactician faces doesn't apply to Mercenary Copilot. Instead, whatever range you measure for closest to closest is the range. If any part is at range 2, it's range 2 and this card doesn't apply.

Tactician's special case is if the closest point is at range 2, but he only part of the ship in arc is at range 3 (or closest is range 1 and in arc is range 2, whatever). Because Tactician specifies "in arc", it must choose the closest point in arc, regardless of the closest point outside the arc. Effects that don't specify in arc don't care about this; there are very few effects in this game that experience that edge case (thankfully, since it confuses many people).