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Several questions regarding starship free attacks:
1) Do free attacks occur in the helm phase (when they are provoked) or during the gunnery phase after it is provoked?
2) Do free attacks function like PC reactions? (i.e. can a starship make multiple free attacks in a single round of combat?)
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Good Questions. This is what the CRB says:
This free attack doesn’t benefit from any bonuses or additional abilities from other actions taken aboard the enemy starship, such as divert or lock on. Any character currently in a gunner role can make this attack. If no one is designated as a gunner (often the case in starships with only one crew member), the enemy starship can’t make a free attack. A weapon used for this free attack can still be used as normal later in the round.
I see that I have been doing this wrong. The attack would happen immediately in the Helm phase. I believe this because of the last sentence that says the weapon can "be used again as normal later in the round".
As far as I can tell, there is no Reaction in Starship Combat so if two or more ships move through a hex with other starship, each ship could be attacked as outline above.
Sorry for raising this post from the dead, but my question is related and I thought it'd be better to post here than to start a new topic...
This free attack doesn’t benefit from any bonuses or additional abilities from other actions taken aboard the enemy starship, such as divert or lock on.
Does this mean the computer cannot be used for free attacks?
The computer bonus is arguably not an "action taken" the way a captain might boost something. If the computer bonus is set for a gunnery bonus that turn, I'd let that stand personally