I have a formation where all units have pulse (IE, 3 SC Thunderbirds) If I formation fire with them, do is still get the +2 to my attack while I pulse? Can I not pulse at all? Or do I make Individual Pulse attacks.

You would get the formation bonus for the first attack but the second attack would only be the primary unit. Only the primary unit can use special equipment so the helpers wouldn't even be able to consider the pulse at all.

Same concept apply to Assault modifiers?

If you assault using pulse the target would still get the +1 for the assault on the second shot.

Yup.

Do bear in mind that formation bonuses apply to both rolls when using Double Rate...

the double rate thing, now that i didnt know yet.

Im curious about formation fire with indirect

i believe its impossible to do a formation fire with Indirect even if the whole formation has streaks and is behind blocking (but is possible when 2 have a direct line and the primary can use streaks?)

You can not do a formation indirect fire. I do not know about formation streaks. I would say you could do a formation streak because I believe it is not an indirect attack, because the target does not get +3 and I believe, if I remember right, you can not use streaks to complete the mission Ambush, which requires you to use indirect fire.

Hi

Formation Fire requires "Each member must be able to draw a clear line of fire to the target" (page 30 of RoW), so I guess Streaks would not apply :grin:

Only the primary unit could use streaks. So if all members except the primary have clear line of site, then you could use the primary unit's streaks.

Streaks cannot be used in formation unless only the Primary needs the Streaks. Streaks requires the unit be targeted and only the primary attacker may use its SE and only the primary attacker is doing the targeting.

As for Ambush, that requires an indirect attack. Streaks is NOT an indirect attack. It is a direct attack.