If you play certain scenarios where you know the other team has to deploy in the center of the map and you deploy booby traps there beforehand, how does it work in terms of activating them if they are forced to deploy within the range of the trap? Does a model trigger it as soon as it is deployed on top of them? Does it happen one at a time as they are placed or not until the entire gang is there? Does it only trigger when they move?
N18 Booby Trap Activations
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Same answer here from me as I gave on Facebook.
The booby traps must be set up before deployment, so it cannot be deployed on top of anyone. It gets deployed before any fighters do.
It only possibly goes off if they move into/in range. If they stand still and shoot at it, it (most often) won’t go off. Deploying isn’t moving. The Booby Trap rules say it is triggered by movement within 2”.
Separately, sinking enough credits into covering the entirety of an opponent’s deployment zone in booby traps is … an interesting choice. Not likely a successful one in the long run.
The Trap turns out to be the one scenario where at least one model has to deploy at the centre of the table, and if the fighter’s base is wider than a half inch (13mm), no other fighter will need to be within two and a half inches of the booby trap in question. So it MIGHT go off if that one fighter moves, and if it does, will hit that one fighter the defender chose to place next to the trap.
The booby traps must be set up before deployment, so it cannot be deployed on top of anyone. It gets deployed before any fighters do.
It only possibly goes off if they move into/in range. If they stand still and shoot at it, it (most often) won’t go off. Deploying isn’t moving. The Booby Trap rules say it is triggered by movement within 2”.
Separately, sinking enough credits into covering the entirety of an opponent’s deployment zone in booby traps is … an interesting choice. Not likely a successful one in the long run.
The Trap turns out to be the one scenario where at least one model has to deploy at the centre of the table, and if the fighter’s base is wider than a half inch (13mm), no other fighter will need to be within two and a half inches of the booby trap in question. So it MIGHT go off if that one fighter moves, and if it does, will hit that one fighter the defender chose to place next to the trap.
