Talk:Airen Cracken/@comment-454133-20161122174848/@comment-454133-20161123160002

Zlappy: Hrm, that's not at all what I imagine when performing a barrel roll. It's not a robotic arm doing the ship's movement, and I'm not blindly dialing in coordinates. I can adjust the position of the ship while dropping it down, even sliding against their base while guiding it down, and presumably plant it touching but not overlapping, perfectly aligning it just as I'm landing it. But maybe you have experience with tournaments and their rules of enforcement that limit that.

That said, with some research I realized the Touching definition itself seems to have the answer here. You cannot cause ships to be "touching" with a barrel roll, even if their bases touch. Ships only become "touching" if they overlap during a maneuver.

So as someone above said, only Daredevil can pull it off, just not for the reason they seemed to be describing. Daredevil is the only known mid-combat maneuver possible, so if Airen gives you an action, you could force a touch that way.