kyussinchains wrote:
So you can snipe singleton baneblade/shadowswords/voidspinners but as soon as you get a company of them, the targeting guy on the spaceship goes 'THREE war engines? In that case I'll turn off the targeting computer and just use the Force(TM) and hope to hit the one with the commander onboard'
I think most people will be able to relate to the shell game, I see this as a similar situation.
Quoting section 4.3.4 of the rule book:
"Pin point attacks can only be made on enemy war engines (war engines are the only things big enough for a spacecraft to pick out on the battlefield)"
So spacecraft can only pick out big targets... but can still differentiate between a number of them in close proximity by means of far smaller details and markings.... from orbit.... through clouds and smoke....This seems unlikely and gamey to me.
If the rule book had said the following then I might have taken a different position:
"Pin point attacks can only be made on enemy war engines (war engines are the only targets considered worthy enough to justify the significant efforts and resources represented by an orbital strike)"