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If a riptide uses the generator the effect lasts until its next movement phase.
If it chooses ripplefire can I shoot it's secondary weapon twice if intercepting?
I ask because someone suggested it can only shoot twice in the shooting phase.

What do you guys think?

Does the weapon gain the rule or the model?

Ripple fire only lets you shoot that weapon twice on your own turn.

I dont see anything that limits it to the Tau shooting phase.

The generator says the effect lasts until the next movement phase.

Though the "ripple fire" entry says "this turn", nothing specifies that its player turn and not game turn.

Its one of those situations where it would hae been helpful if GW had used "Rounds" for game turns, and turn for player turns....

RaW I would say you could overwatch or intercept with Ripple Fire.

RaI I could see it going either way,

"This turn" IS player turn, unless specified otherwise. No double overwatching or intercepting for the Riptide.

Yes you can shoot twice with overwatch/interceptor fire by RAW. The nova reactor effect grants the Riptide the text in the appropriate entry. So, on your turn it has "may fire twice this turn", and on your opponent's turn it has "may fire twice this turn".

Steel - unless specified otherwise, turn means player turn. Page 2 or 3, from memory

 Peregrine wrote:
Yes you can shoot twice with overwatch/interceptor fire by RAW. The nova reactor effect grants the Riptide the text in the appropriate entry. So, on your turn it has "may fire twice this turn", and on your opponent's turn it has "may fire twice this turn".

It clearly says you twice this turn after you have done a nova charge roll at the the beginning of his movement phase yes it will last until the start of the next turn but if you ignore the context of the rule (in that you have to nova charge beginning of his movement phase to be able to select a option, this option then says for this turn) thats the only way you could RAW argue that you can fire twice in your opponents turn