Talk:XX-23 S-Thread Tracers/@comment-27239000-20151117203819/@comment-107.179.141.188-20160128233240

In the Huge ship rules, that came with the GR-75 it says:

"A ship that acquires a target lock on a huge ship must acquire that lock on a single section of the huge ship. The closest point of the chosen section must be within range. THe red target lock token is placed next to the chosen section of the huge ship and its effect only applies to that section."

Based on this is seems that when you acquire a target lock (not take the target lock action!!) you must be within range.

So these range restrictions seem to be in place when acquiring a target lock, not just when taking the target lock action.

However, when passing a blue target lock, it makes thematic sense that they are just transmitting the information to another ship, so that can happen out of range. And based upon my reading of the tracers card it seems to me that the intention is that anyone within the range 1-2 of the attacker can get a target lock on the ships even if they are out of range, since it is similar to this passing a bue target lock token.

However, with other cards that let a ship acquire a target lock (not get one given to them), even without taking the target lock action, it seems that the intention of the creators is that it is within range, and they do specify that in the huge ship rules, and I see no reason why it would be different in the regular rules.