When was the Power expenditure for firing supposed to have been deducted? I thought it was when the attempts were resolved.

haha I was just writing a CfJ about that

I think you should have paid when you made the attack attempts, i.e. when you made the initial comment to the 12/12 scheduling post. (It;s the attempt that costs, rather than the resolution, so you should have paid for all of them and thus destroyed your Shell.)

It’s a question of whether the attack sequence rule parses as “spend 10 Power to {attempt to fire on a Bogey as a Timed Action}” or “{spend 10 Power to attempt to fire on a Bogey} as a Timed Action”.

The grammar is genuinely ambiguous. Your parsing has paradoxical results when “The attempt to fire has no further effect and does not cost Power”, which would retroactively un-destroy my Shell if I drained all my Power trying to attack.

However, the paradox is moot if I didn’t successfully register an Attack with Vector 15 before the confirmed ones - I should have 10 power left in that case.

Regardless, the power expenditure clause needs its timing clarified.

Also, I think I still need to pay Power for the “all subsequent fire attempts were cancelled” attempts, but I’m not certain because the Poindexter said they didn’t happen.

Make that CfJ, I guess.