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Hi all
Just a quick clarification on Interceptor needed:

If my opponent goes first and shoots all his Riptide's weapons and then I deep strike some pods in my movement phase, can he shoot at them?

Conversely if I go first and he fires his Riptide's weapons at me in my movement phase can he shoot in his subsequent shooting phase?

He says the rule states that he can not fire in his next turn saying that since it is turn 1 he would not be able to shoot in his turn 2. Then went on to fire interceptor in turn 2 saying he was using his turn 3 shooting phase this time and so forth until I had no reserves left to bring in.

I would have throught that he could only fire his weapon once, either my movement phase or his shooting phase....

Who was correct?

Thanks again!
Mike

If you go second, he can shoot you from Interceptor ,but won't be able to shoot with any of the weapons he shot in his next shooting phase.
If you go first his next shooting phase would be his first.

The rule says it cannot fire next turn. Not next shooting phase.

So to me this means he fires it in turn 1 and then cannot shoot it again until turn 3. Leaving you 1 moving phase to get more stuff in unharmed.

A turn is a player turn. Your opponent's next turn is the turn where he has a shooting phase next.If your opponent goes first and shoots on your first turn, his second turn is his next. If you go first your opponent's next turn is his first one.

 B0B MaRlEy wrote:
A turn is a player turn. Your opponent's next turn is the turn where he has a shooting phase next.If your opponent goes first and shoots on your first turn, his second turn is his next. If you go first your opponent's next turn is his first one.

This is correct.

LongFang4Life wrote:
Hi all
Just a quick clarification on Interceptor needed:

If my opponent goes first and shoots all his Riptide's weapons and then I deep strike some pods in my movement phase, can he shoot at them?

Conversely if I go first and he fires his Riptide's weapons at me in my movement phase can he shoot in his subsequent shooting phase?

He says the rule states that he can not fire in his next turn saying that since it is turn 1 he would not be able to shoot in his turn 2. Then went on to fire interceptor in turn 2 saying he was using his turn 3 shooting phase this time and so forth until I had no reserves left to bring in.

I would have throught that he could only fire his weapon once, either my movement phase or his shooting phase....

Who was correct?

Thanks again!
Mike

BRB P9 "Whenever a rule refers to 'a turn' it always means 'playerturn' unless it specifically refers to a 'game turn'."

BRB P38 Interceptor "If this rule is used, the weapon cannot be fired in the next turn, but the firing model can shoot a different weapon if it has one."

So we get the player firing a model with Interceptor being unable to fire that weapon(s) in the next PLAYER turn.
If you went first and he intercepted, he cannot fire that weapon on his first turn (ie : 2nd player turn), but may fire another weapon
If you went second and he had already fired, he can use interceptor and then cannot fire that weapon in his next (ie: now the 3rd player turn) turn.

So yes, he can only fire that particular weapon once (either through shooting or interceptor) per game turn (essentially) and it may not fire the next player turn (which may be your turn if he fired in his shooting phase, or his if it was using interceptor during your movement phase).

However, I scratch my head at the statement "went on to fire interceptor in turn 2 saying he was using his turn 3 shooting phase this time and so forth until I had no reserves left to bring in."
Just confusing and makes no sense tbh (you cannot use a turn from later in the game in the current turn!)

R - you are missing the case where the unit that fired Interceptor is then charged in the same player turn; here the model that intercepted IS able to fire overwatch, as it is not the next turn.

nosferatu1001 wrote:
R - you are missing the case where the unit that fired Interceptor is then charged in the same player turn; here the model that intercepted IS able to fire overwatch, as it is not the next turn.

Sure, but the OP mentioned nothing about being charged so I didn't think to look at that.

I was just correcting the assertion that you can only fire the weapon once per game turn - with interceptor and overwatch it is entirely possible to charge the same player turn a model has intercepted.

thanks for all ur help, it sounds like he was doing it correctly - he went first and shot, then intercepted on my movement in turn 1. In turn 2 he didn't shoot but intercepted on my movement phase again. In turn 3 he did the same and in turn 4 I didn't have anything for him to intercept so his riptides didn't shoot any weapons.


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And could he fire his missile pods and the ion accelerator when he is intercepting, or just one weapon?

He can fire both, but any weapon he fires with Interceptor cannot be fired in his next shooting phase.

thanks again!

So he was saying he's usings his "Turn 3 shooting phase" in regards to firing his interceptors. Sounds like he was doing it right, just shooting his interceptor weapons during each of your movement phases and then not using them or using a different weapon in his shooting phase.