Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27029853-20170129150901/@comment-31354887-20170516070955

A interesting thing happened today that I thought might be worth telling others about in case it happens to them.

I was flying Poe and Miranda at my game store's weekly casual tournament and I had loaded up Miranda with Sabine, Extra munitions and 3 types of bombs. In my first fight I was up against the Rear Admiral and Carnor Jax, we managed to somehow get everyone over into a corner and Miranda dropped some cluster mines on the previous turn before dropping a conner net in close proximity. The Admiral was left with the option of flying off the field or flying straight into the bombs and eating them but Jax came first and pulled a wide turn leaving his template crossing over 1 cluster mine and the conner net.

So here is where the curious bit happens. Jax only had 1 hull left (curse you hull upgrade) and he rolled a hit on the cluster mine which was the killing blow. However because his template overlapped the net too my opponent reasoned that the conner net triggered as well since a maneuver template counts for setting off a bomb like that. I reasoned that since the cluster mines killed Jax there technically wouldn't be a ship left for the bomb to affect. We called the judge over and she sided with me saying that if the first bomb destroyed Jax there technically wasn't anything left to trigger the net, but she agreed to double check the rules and even do a quick online search, and...

Nothing. There apparently isn't any official ruling for a situation like this in which one bomb destroys a ship before the second one has a chance to trigger. It's probably a niche situation but my opponent was banking on Jax setting off  both bombs even though he knew the first one would take it out in order to clear a bath for his Decimator. The judge ultimately had the final call and went in my favor saying the bombs activated in order that the ship would cross them and if it was destroyed before all the bombs triggered the remaining bombs would stay on the field.

I wound up winning that round, the Rear Admiral ate the conner net and then Poe came up behind and got a range 1 shot to finish off their last 2 hull.