ATTACK SUB Q & A (8/6/91) (source: Consimworld Attack Sub folder, posts #14 and 44; Q&A and errata from AH tournaments) 3.2D ERRATA Add: "However, only one Ship may react to each Active Sonar or Sub attack card played." 3.4 Could a player who plays no cards, but does take a legal action such as a repair attempt by drawing a RN, avoid having to discard? A. Yes. 3.6 Can the Battle Stations card be used for two attacks against different ships? May two separate attacks be made against one target if the total is less than or equal to the contact status? May two separate attacks be made against two targets if each satisfies its own requirements? A. No. 6.3 prevails. Separate attacks would be considered identical actions. No. No. 3.6/8.2 Does Battle Stations allow a surface ship to conduct an action on the same turn that a Close/Open Range card is played for its side? May two different types of CR cards (such as Thermal Layer and Silent Running ) be played with a BS card? ... even as a Reactive play to a black card (3.2)? A. Yes, Yes, Yes. 4.21 If a sub uses Active Sonar to search for two ships, can both ships play a Passive Sonar to raise their Contact Level on the sub twice? A. No. Only one ship may react with a Passive Sonar to each Active Sonar played. 4.3 If due to malfunction, it is impossible for a ship's sonar to increase contact with its target (e.g., sensor at -1 vs detect value of 7), can a Passive Sonar be played anyway just to get it out of the hand? A. No. 5.3 ERRATA: Delete the word "red". 5.5 Can a sub in Systems Shutdown invoke it again to reduce contact after further attacks? Can a "playing dead" sub use an "A/PS" card as a Passive Sonar? A. No. A sub in Systems Shutdown has lost its freedom of action. It cannot take any action other than Contact Reduction and Passive Sonar until it draws a RN>3. Then it must decide whether it will reduce contact one level or regain its freedom of action. An "A/PS" card is considered a Passive Sonar card when played as such. 6.4 ERRATA: The example is wrong. Passive sonar cannot be used against surface attacks. 6.8 If a surface ship that is attacked plays Passive Sonar in response, but is destroyed by that attack, does its side still gain a contact level on the attacker? A. Yes. Note the surface ship would have had to play the Passive Sonar in response to the attack before the attack was resolved. 8.1/13.5 May the play of an Open Range card to disengage occur even if the ship has no contacts on any opposing ship? Does an Open Range card used to disengage apply only to a single surface ship; i.e. it is not shared? A. Once an opposing ship has been sunk by a vessel, that vessel need not have a contact to play an Open Range card. Open Range cards are shared by all surface ships except in the case of Scenario Special Rules such as those of 13K where a capital ship is allowed to escape alone. Generally, for one surface ship to escape, all must turn away from the enemy with that Move card. 8.4 Does the playing of a Close/Open Range card increase the contact level of all surface ships even when there was currently no contact against some of them? A. Yes. 9.3 Do subs and lone surface ships have their contact status lowered by subsequent malfunctions of attack systems? A. No. Attack malfunctions do not have this effect. 10.31 If play of a C/OR card is negated by a reactive play (8.5), is a helicopter check still required? A. Yes. 10.31/11.1 Is play of a Close Range card to attempt reinforcement entry considered played on a surface force such that a helicopter check is required? A. No. 13C Must Soviet Subs currently hold contact level 1 to disengage or must they just have achieved it at some prior point? Can NATO win this scenario by destroying one sub and disengaging? A. The latter - no ship can disengage while currently at Contact Level 1. No. Any scenario with specific stated victory conditions cannot be won by 13.5. 13E Must the play of the Open Range card not be negated as in 13H? Does the Open Range card function in every way as a normal play of such a card? May the Open Range card be played even if no enemy ships are currently detected? A. No. Yes. In this scenario, once play has entered the second deck Open Range cards may be played without respect to enemy contact. However, enemy contact can never be reduced to less than "No Contact". The same logic applies to 13H.