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Say a Reticulan squadron includes a DV 1 corvette with Formation Bonus 0 (so Directed Damage DV multiplier is 1.5), and the Terran player's anti-shipping fire deals 4 damage against the Reticulan squadron.

a) Can the Reticulan player assign double the corvette's DV (i.e. 2 points) of the Terrans' fire results to the corvette and have it destroyed outright, sparing other ships both points of damage, or must the ship be crippled and destroyed by separate volleys?
b) If double a unit's DV can, in fact, be applied in the above fashion, and the Terran player wishes to do so via Directed Damage, does the 1.5x DV multiplier get rounded up twice, once to determined damage required for Crippled and then again for Destroyed? or should the sum total damage required to Destroy the ship be multiplied by the Formation Modifier?

a) The way that I've always played it is that you can destroy a unit in a single volley if you want to, and I don't think there are any rules against it in the book. So that DV 1 corvette could receive the 2 damage to destroy it rather than spread the damage around.

b) The amount of damage required to destroy the corvette is 2, and if that's how much damage is to be applied to it than the humans would only need 2 x 1.5 = 3 damage to one-shot it using directed damage.

Woot! Thanks Tyrel. With your help I'll be done CMing my first VBAM game turn in no time