Talk:Pivot Wing/@comment-27666888-20161224105422/@comment-31642426-20170525223754

Yeah, I mean it is supposed to be a penalty for an illegal move. The problem arose, as mentioned above, when there became a way to stress your opponent out after they set their dial.

For my personal taste, I feel the 2 forward is too generous. Its kind of a "ah shucks" result (except for the nightmare scenario I outlined above). The real issue is that it would be hard to find a single penalty that would be severe enough to actually be considered a penatly, that would then not be unfair to someone who legally selected a Red Maneuver who became the unwilling victim of a Cargo drop. Equally as difficult to find one that is fair to the latter scenario whithout some loophole for someone to exploite and select an illegal red manuever on purpose.

It seems to me that the correct solution would have been to create a solution for both scenarios. Like keep the "opponent gets to choose a maneuver off your dial" that was the orginial rule for scenarios where the illegal maneuver was chosen by the ship owner. They chose an illegal maneuver, so they get a nasty penalty. Then, for the scenarios where the ship owner selected a perfectly legal Red Manuever who, through no fault of their own, later picked up a stress from some Activation Phase action from a Lower PS ship, the result could be a white 2 forward.