Additional WYN ship choices?

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Additional WYN ship choices?

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In the Captain's log 37 history section, and in the Scenario Attack on the Wyn Cluster, it says that the WYN owned a small number of Orion LRs and CRs (and one BR). When selecting a WYN battleforce, may they use those Orion-class ships as is, but without the ability to double engines?
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Yes, they can. They can use those Orion ships with two changes:
- They cannot double their engines (as you already stated).
- Their weapons choices are more limited. They use the weapons selection given in (5L1) for their class, but suffer the same limitations on "foreign" weapons listed in (5L8).
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Presumably these WYN "orions" should have lower point values as well?
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And no cloaking devices I assume? Thanks :)
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Orion ships used by the WYN retain the same point value as the Orion ships. It just isn't worth the bother to make a point change for the engine doubling.

No cloak. That is true Orion only.
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Don't they also lose the stealth rule? IIRC the Orions insisted on no pirate-specific changes (stealth, engine doubling, stolen cable trivideo channels built in to the communications system).
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No, they keep the stealth. That is inherent to the design, so it stays.
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