Message text BlueDragon wrote:
Longneck wrote: BlueDragon: I agree the rules are silent on this, but one without a crew could be considered neither friendly nor unfriendly. We imply that now by allowing transfers between adjacent friendly ships that aren't grappled or fouled, but you CANNOT TBP to an abandoned "friendly" ship without grappling/fouling. That's inconsistent.
The inconsistency is because I have no time to code at the moment, so I couldn't finish the changes to grapple/fould system. According to the rules, there's no need to grapple/foul your friendly crewless ships to transfer to them. So no inconsistency there.
For not having much time, you're doing a better job of keeping up than I am!
But by "according to the rules" do you mean the boardgame rules, or youplay? I assume you mean the boardgame rules. If so, you're right, there's no inconsistency, but we don't allow that. On the site, you do have to grapple/foul to transfer to a friendly crewless ship. I can accept your "WSIM world" argument. I've told several people on the forum "that's just the way it is -- play to the rules".
That said, my logic goes like this: I assume the boardgame allows transfers between friendly adjacent ships because both ships are cooperating. Guys on the receiving ship are helping their mates aboard, etc. I don't know, just my guess. That won't happen on a crewless ship, so I have no problem with requiring grappling/fouling. It's just that an enemy shouldn't have an advantage by being able to OBP just because they didn't previously control the ship when a friendly ship has to TBP.
For me, this is a major reason I almost never grapple. If I do win, the ship my guys came from is free for the taking and, unless they're already grappled/fouled, I have to do that first to regain control, which could take several turns.
So I'll make one last argument that we should either: 1) allow a transfer to friendly crewless ships without grappling/fouling, or 2) allow an OBP if grappling/fouling is necessary.
"No" is OK, just my take on it.  |
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