RAP and gun jams.

[phililphall]

This may have been mentioned before and if so I apologize.

I was reading through the RAP and decided to read it instead of just skimming it. And I ran across this:

"If the damage card with the jammed symbol is drawn, the firing plane has jammed ONE of it's guns." Caps are mine.

So, if I understand this, a single seater with A guns would still be able to fire as if it were a B gun. So a jam in the middle of a furball only decreases the power of a twin gunned machine and doesn't take it out of the fight if the pilot wants to stay.

[gully_raker]

This may have been mentioned before and if so I apologize.

I was reading through the RAP and decided to read it instead of just skimming it. And I ran across this:

"If the damage card with the jammed symbol is drawn, the firing plane has jammed ONE of it's guns." Caps are mine.

So, if I understand this, a single seater with A guns would still be able to fire as if it were a B gun. So a jam in the middle of a furball only decreases the power of a twin gunned machine and doesn't take it out of the fight if the pilot wants to stay.

I had not taken that in as in the context of an "A" firing plane but as in a 2 seater where the firing gun is Jammed but not the other one. Some possability for a SE 5a with 2 separate guns mounted in different positions.

What are your thoughts folks?

[PRS]

I don't have a copy of the RAP rules yet, so I can't check, but could this be an advanced or optional rule? It does make for a more realistic simulation and I would expect that the pilot would have to choose between firing and clearing the jam. If you choose to fire on a phase, you wouldn't be working on clearing the jam, so you wouldn't lose a jam counter.

[Oberst Hajj]

I took it in the "Two Seater" way as well. However, Andrea has mentioned in the past that jams could be handle this way for A firing planes. I'll see if I can get him to chime in on it.

[Angiolillo]

Well, the effect of the jamming oin the rule is anyway that the plane can not fire. So "on of its guns" is not so relevant. The gun/guns that fired are out of service. One "gun position", to be clear in case of two-seaters or multi-engine planes with several weapons.
There was an old house rule with which you could jam just one of the two twin guns of an A firing fighter. Here it is:
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/39805#39805
But this edited rule did not refer to this one.

[flash]

Phil take a look here in the House Rules section where some ideas on using Jam tokens were discussed; here also it came up again ! May help you decide on a way to use them