Federation Commander

storeylf · Fleet Captain Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 1897

SVC answered a couple of questions from an earlier post of mine, but didn't say anything about the following 2 points, I'm hoping he is pondering them (or has them covered already) as they could have quite an effect on tactics for deactivating banks.

Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

Thanks for all the fish, guys, but the W&P rulebook goes to press in about 3 hours. If anybody has anything else to say, posting it here won't work as I won't be back on the forum until tomorrow. Email me (design@starfleetgames.com) and I'll deal with it.
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Steve Cole · Site Admin Joined: 11 Oct 2006 Posts: 3828

(3G4c) Transfer To Banks: An Andromedan ship may transfer power from one bank to the other (if it is active), but no more than one point of power for every undisabled panel (i.e., for ten boxes of bank capacity) in the bank sending the power. Power could also be sent to the power absorbers of an energy module in the hangar (5V2) but not to a satellite ship (5V1c3).

(3G3a) Power Cost: Unlike shields, there is a power cost to operate power absorbers of one-half of an energy point per undisabled panel box in each bank, e.g., seven points for an Intruder. See (3G5). The entire bank must be powered (or not) unless the ship does not have enough power to do that, in which case the ship must power as many panels as it can. This power is applied during Energy Allocation (during Shield Regeneration) or in the Other Functions Phase of an impulse (1E2e1).

(3G5a) Function: The Andromedan player might deactivate one bank of his power absorbers, perhaps to allow non-Andromedan transporters to work, or perhaps to use a “tactical power dump” (3G5c). This is done during the Other Functions Phase (1E2e1). The Andromedan player can raise one panel and drop the other in either order at his option.

If you deactivate in impulse 8, then you cannot reactivate durring EA so you cannot pay during EA but you can pay during 1E2e1 of a later impulse.

I will have Joel fix the cart pictures. Those will be replaced with the real cover art shortly (probably today) anyway.

"I've noticed that under the FC DAC an Andro ship can be virtually gutted without losing all, or even many, PA panels. Then on the next turn's EA, it blows up." Andro go boom.

"I wonder how the DOM might look if you rotated it to one side (like on the Conquistador card) then moved both fore and aft panel blocks to either the left or right of the ship." It would look pretty stupid since the panels are on the front and back of the ship, not the sides.
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