I think I like the idea of only shooting in a straight line from your front arrow. One of the long discussions on FB in the BRS Ready Room group is over the tactic of ganging up multiple shots at one target. This problem becomes more difficult to pull off with a limit on atraight line shooting. As far as the stem goes that is only mentioned in the tutorial videos. So yes, there is some confusion. Especially when you look at the wingman diagram on page 15. The white plane is not looking directly at the enemy in front of it and yet it is only considered to be not tailing because of the wingman so this implies that it is still able to shoot, albeit not from a tailing position.
I play at Forbes Hobbies in Cambridge Ont, Canada.
The rules say you can shoot at a target in your front arc and a lower adv. level. Then the example shows a direct line from the arrow. So my question is…can you shoot at something that is in your front arc but not in line with your arrow?