Speed Boost Question Clarification

[RBloom0566]

Steve:

I don't quite understand the divergence from the rules on Speed Boost. Can you clarify? The way the SA reads, it seems to me that the effects of the Do.335's attacks essentially deal immediate (eg. face-up) counters.

How is it that the Do.335's attack can cause face-down counters, caused by other attack sources, to become face-up for purposes of casualty resolution?

I've always understood that face-down is face-down and face-up is face-up, with the two results not stacking. Seems that Speed Burst breaks that rule.

If a Do.335 scores a Disruption on an enemy aircraft with immediate (face-up) result, is that plane immediately removed from play (as per the rule that prohibits Disrupted aircraft from entering the game board in a Disrupted condition)? Or may the plane continue on mission at the additional risk?

Seems to me that the Do.335 should be able to apply it's "immediate effect" to it's attack alone. That way if the Wirblewind hits my P-51 and scores a face-down Disruption, then the Do.335 fires using Speed Burst and scores a face-up Disruption, my P-51 is:
A) Immediately Disrupted (per the Do.335), BUT...
B) Survives to do it's job until the Casualty Phase when the Wirblewind's face-down Disruption flips face-up, resulting in two hits and a Destroyed result.

Please feel free to be verbose for the community's (and my) sake of understanding.

Thanks,
Robert

[Y2UAsk]

Not to be glib, but the short answer is, it works that way because that's how the designer intended it to work and how it was playtested.

I won't go beyond that here, because this isn't a rules question. Such discussion needs to move to the General forum.

Steve

[RBloom0566]

Not to be glib, but the short answer is, it works that way because that's how the designer intended it to work and how it was playtested.

I won't go beyond that here, because this isn't a rules question. Such discussion needs to move to the General forum.

Steve

Steve:

Glib and disappointing. Remeniscint of the "deal with it" responses of months ago.

I had legitimate questions in there, but yes, I asked you to make clear for me the "breaking of the rules," if you could.

Never mind,
Robert

[Y2UAsk]

Sorry that you feel that way.

As I've noted in a few other places, all special abilities break the rules. In that respect, this one's no different.

I'm not, however, the game's designer, so I can't answer questions about design intent. I just explain how the rules work, not why they are the way they are.

Steve