During a game this weekend We had a instance where a injured plane was within the rear arc of another plane. It states in the rules you get a bonus for firing into the rear arc of the enemy. The injured plane had a gunnery value of 0. Would the injured plane be able to roll 1 die (0 value + 1 for the bonus) or would the injured plane not be able to roll any due to having a 0 gunnery value?

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Good question. According to the letter of the rules, yes as long as the pilot is not shaken.
But accordiing to the spirit of the rules... no

I would tend to go with the letter of the rules until a FAQ says otherwise

Of course if disputes arise and something seems ambiguous, you can always resort to the dice... 1,2, or3, yes.... 4,5, or 6 no

Well, the rules say if you have a non-0 rear gunnery value, you can take a shot. Then, 3 paragraphs later, you check to see if you're firing into your opponents rear arc. So by the letter of the rules, I'd say NO, you can't take the shot, because you don't meet the non-0 requirement. The check for rear arc doesn't occur until after you determine if you can take a shot at all.

good point jar, teaches me to answer questions without the ruls in front of me... (whick i why I ALWAYS keep em with me at tournaments)

lemme take a look-see

seems to be a potential FAQ claification needed to clear it up.. but Jardeon is correct, you cant add anything to a shot that cant happen

I'd have to say "if you have a zero gunnery value, you have no freakin' gun."

The plus-one is a BONUS, not a gunnery value in and of itself. Theoretically, the other way, I could magically make guns appear if I pointed my plane in the right direction, in the right place in the formation ... and that ain't right.

0 value in the rar gunnery indicator could very well mean your guner is, well, gone.

they iused to dia a lot you know, you hear a bout lots of dive bomber aces, but most of e'm went thorouhg a lot of gunners-radio operators.

what about maverick's RIO? sure, everyone rembmers Goose, but waht was the name of his replacement?

yikes, tons o typos!, when will we be worthy of edit options?

Quite right -- I kinda figured that a gunnery value of zero either meant that the gun itself had been shot away, or that the gunner was croaked.

...but either way, it implies that this particular gun ain't there to use any more, modifier or no modifier...

If you could get the bonus for a Zero Gunnery skill, then planes with no rear gun to start with could rear arc a plane from the rear and get the bonus, which would be wrong.

So I say that you can't give either rear arc or point blank bonuses to a Zero Gunnery Skill.

Topcow,
It may be possible to edit posts for a very short time after you make them, but due to people abusing post edit, it has been severely limited on all the Realms/WizKids sites.

Jamie, the ability to edit for a limited time has not as of yet been implemented here, nor has spellcheck

Oh, well I hadn't checked for it.
Last time I wanted to edit a post here, Edit was still Full On.
I just wish people hadn't abused it in the first place.

I have a question then: why it exists a plane that has a state with 0 in front and rear gunnery, but is not shaken ?

its for scoring purposes. If ALL pilots are shaken no points are scored. This pilot, although not being able to do any damage besides collision, still counts for scoring