Crewmitglied Jan Ors

JayRhea von A Few Maneuvers schrieb:Here is my initial rules question:
Some abilities affect "friendly ships at Range X." Most of these abilities use "other" or "another" to denote that the ability does not affect the ship that the range is measured from. But some abilities do not use these qualifiers.

The question is can a ship be considered "at Range 1" from itself?

My interpretation is that a ship is not considered to be at Range 1 of itself. For a ship to be at a certain range that section of the range ruler must overlap the target's base. The rules for measuring distance state to place the range ruler so that it touches the point of origin and points away from the ship toward the target. Therefore, the point of origin cannot be at Range 1 because that section of the range ruler does not overlap the point of origin's base.

Here is Frank Brooks' initial response:
I don’t believe there are any abilities where this matters. If an ability does not say other or another, then it has no effect if you affected yourself. If you can give me an example where it matters whether a ship is at Range 1 of itself, I will give you a more helpful response.

Thanks for playing,

Frank Brooks
Associate Creative Content Developer
Fantasy Flight Games

Here is my follow up:
Thanks for the quick response. This is actually an issue with the new Jan Ors crew card from the Rebel Aces expansion that has recently been previewed in Game Trade Magazine.
Once per round, when a friendly ship at Range 1-3 performs a focus action or would be assigned a focus token, you may assign that ship an evade token instead.

If a ship can be considered at Range 1 of itself then a ship equipped with Jan Ors could assign itself an evade token.

Here is Frank Brooks' response to my follow up:
That is indeed an example. (Sometimes its hard to remember what information has been released yet so I didn’t want to disclose anything that wasn’t announced yet.) Up until Rebel Aces, there aren’t any abilities where this matters.

I cannot answer rules questions about ships that are not released yet. I will reply to this once Rebel Aces is available for purchase.
Thanks for the question though. We will add it to the FAQ.

Frank Brooks

Associate Creative Content Developer
Fantasy Flight Games