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shalis:
Sorry if its been asked.  Long time player of VB6 but only a couple games in C#.  Its been awhile since i had played and recently resumed.

I seem to remember back in VB6 days sometimes using my AMMs for anti ship role in a pinch. .  although now that i'm typing this the possibility occurs to me that maybe i had multiple fire controls and switched between them. 

Currently i've been using a mix of 10cm lasers and AMMs for PD as beams are so much more effective now a days.  Anyways i'm digressing.  I have a scout ship with several 10cm turreted lasers with beam PD fire controls that just got jumped by a spoiler at point blank range, can i just verify that there is no way for me to use a Beam PD to target a ship and/or none of the PD modes include shooting at ships within range only missiles?

thanks for your time, and apologize if its a redundant question.

Andrew:
No you cannot.
Beam fire controls can target any ship within their range. If you cannot target the ship shooting you, check that you have active sensors which are on , and that the Alien race are set to hostile.

shalis:
Sorry, i probably wasn't clear.  the ship has beam fire controls set to single weapon and PD, so i'm guessing that your first answer applies and they cannot target ships.

It does have active sensors and the ship does show on target list.  I should have put a regular beam control in them to switch the lasers to in situations like these, oh well thats what Mk. II is for.  :)

Thank you Andrew.

GrandNord:
If you are within range (accounting for enemy jammer and stealth), you have active sensors on and you have BFCs with weapons assigned you can target enemy ships.

Any weapon can be used as PD (with more or much less effectiveness depending on the weapon, turret speed, BFC speed and range and the reload rate), you just need to assign a PD behaviour to a BFC (right part of the combat tab of the naval organization window when you have a ship selected).

Since PD weapons are just normal weapons with assigned PD behaviours you can just assign an enemy target to a PD BFC and order the BFC to open fire as normal.

Andrew:

--- Quote from: shalis on April 04, 2024, 03:11:18 PM ---Sorry, i probably wasn't clear.  the ship has beam fire controls set to single weapon and PD, so i'm guessing that your first answer applies and they cannot target ships.

It does have active sensors and the ship does show on target list.  I should have put a regular beam control in them to switch the lasers to in situations like these, oh well thats what Mk. II is for.  :)

Thank you Andrew.

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Apparently I was not clear :(
Any Beam fire control can target any enemy ship in range . so you should be able to shoot at him, the pont defense settings have no bearing on your ability to shoot at ships

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