Escort After Weapons have been assigned to a friendly Ship of H or C tonnage within 6” of this Ship on the same Orbital Layer, you may declare the use of Escort for the friendly Ship. Only one Group may Escort at a time and it must be in Coherency.
After your opponent rolls to hit the original target, allocate an amount of hits from that roll to this Group. An Escort Group cannot be allocated more damage by those hits than each remaining Ship in it has in starting Hull. You may use this even if the Escort Group is out of range, arc, and line of sight of the attacking Group. Continue the attack sequence using the Escort Group.
Weapons with the Focused rule cannot be affected by the Escort rule.
