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Can Apollo start the game in an Assault Raptor?

Three posts in one thread read the text this way against one; no official ruling is quoted.

  • imdahman · Community · 2013-08-03disagrees
  • Kwijiboe · Community · 2013-08-02
  • a1bert · Community · 2013-08-03
  • downfall · Community · 2013-08-06

Probably yes. Daybreak only bars placing the starting Assault Raptor during the Set Up Ships step, and Apollo's launch-and-pilot start is a separate game effect in which an Assault Raptor may be chosen as a Viper. Some players read the setup restriction as covering Apollo too.

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