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Damage from ramming is not deflected by aship’s shields.As Battlefleet Gothic is a 2D representation of3D space, a ship cannot attempt to ram morethan one ship per movement phase, even ifmultiple enemy vessels are in its range ofmovement.As ramming already requires a dedicatedleadership check, a ship does not have to makea separate leadership check to ignore closertargets to ram one further away, just as attackcraft do not have to do so to attack a giventarget.Movement distance and contact whenattempting to ram is determined by base-tobasecontact. If any part of the ramming ship’sbase contacts any part of the rammed ship’sbase in the course of its movement, the ram isconsidered to be successful.When ramming, the ramming vessel must moveits FULL distance, including any extra distancemoved for being All Ahead Full. Whenramming, calculate damage taken by bothvessels. If the ramming ship survives (even as ahulk), then it completes its movement.While a ramming vessel may later attempt toboard or shoot, it may only attempt to board avessel if it ends up in base contact with one atthe end of its full movement.Any ship or defense with either 3 or moreshields OR greater than 10HP must use a largesize base. However, any capital ship can electto use a large base and is considered to haveTractor Fields for free.Hit and Run Attacks, Critical andCatastrophic DamageShips that cannot be boarded (such as Chaosvessels with the Mark of Nurgle) are NOTautomatically immune from hit and run attacks.Fleets that benefit from a +1 bonus to their Hitand Run attacks roll a 2 to 7 on a D6, meaningthey will never fail to inflict some criticaldamage on their target.Critical hits that can be repaired arecumulative; meaning ships that take a multiplenumber of the same critical damage must repairall incidences of that critical damage before thesystem is fully operational.Critical hits that cannot be repaired such asShield Collapse only count once. Subsequentinstances of this damage instead move to thenext higher applicable critical damage.Ships that are reduced to zero hits and becomehulks no longer have shields, holofields or anyother similar mechanism.Bombers do not have to roll against a hulk’sturret value to determine number of attacks.Hulks cannot be fired upon or boarded byfriendly vessels or ordnance in an attempt todeny victory points to the enemy or inducecatastrophic damage. As Necrons activelystrive to deny their advanced technology toother races, they are exempt from this rule.While enemy ships can choose to fire on ahulk, they do not have to pass a leadershipcheck to ignore one if it is the closest target. Aplayer can fire on a hulk if it is not the closesttarget, but it must make a leadership checknormally.SquadronsBefore the start of a game, escort squadronsmake a single roll to determine leadership forthe entire squadron. Capital ships may roll theirindividual leadership separately before formingsquadrons, but capital ship squadrons must bedeployed and declared as such before the startof the game. A capital ship squadron assumesthe leadership of whatever surviving vessel hasthe highest leadership.When shooting at squadrons, a leadership testcannot be used to pick out individual ships in asquadron; only the closest vessel can betargeted. This does not apply to ordnanceattacks. Note that when shooting at squadronswith gunnery attacks, facing and armor valuesall take effect as described on p.38 of therulebook.Vessels in a squadron are all equally affectedby special orders taken by any one ship in thesquadron. For instance, when on All AheadFull, only one roll is made to determineadditional move distance for all the vessels in6
the squadron. As is true for individual ships,squadrons can only undergo one special orderper turn (to be replaced normally by Brace ForImpact as applicable).An escort squadron that successfullydisengages only counts as being 10% destroyedagainst the full value of all the escorts in thesquadron. It counts as 25% destroyed if thesquadron was crippled before disengaging, asin if at least half the escorts in the squadronwere destroyed (rounding down) before thesquadron disengaged. For example, if asquadron of five escorts disengages after twowere destroyed, the enemy only gains 10% ofits starting value, but will earn 25% of itsstarting value of three were destroyed before itdisengaged.Hits taken by an escort squadron are onlydistributed among the vessels that actually tookfire (such as in range and fire arc), regardless ofhow many hits the squadron actually took,though it affects ALL escorts within range andfire arc. This also applies to hits taken by anescort squadron negotiating an asteroid field, aswell as hits delivered by ordnance or NovaCannon, as those hits (regardless of how many)affect only the vessels directly contacted by theordnance markers or Nova Cannon blasttemplate.DisengagingA vessel not hulked that moves off of the tableedge during play for any reason counts as beingdisengaged.If any one ship in an escort squadrondisengages, the whole squadron must thenimmediately and in subsequent turns attempt todisengage following normal rules. Thisprevents an escort squadron from disengagingone or two vessels to keep leadership or victorypoint benefits, then pushing the rest of them ina suicide run at the enemy.Capital ships in a squadron may disengageseparately, relying on their base leadership todo so, not the highest leadership in thesquadron.When disengaging, ALL positive and negativemodifiers must be added together beforedetermining the leadership check, even thoughcheck rolls of 11 or 12 still automatically fail.For instance, a ship or escort squadron withLd9 attempts to disengage after moving within5cm of three blast markers and an asteroid field(+4Ld) with no enemy ships or ordnancemarkers within 15cm (no negative modifier).Even though the effective leadership todisengage is now Ld13 because these must allbe added together BEFORE the roll, the playermust still roll no higher than 10.A ship that disengages successfully counts as10% its point value for the enemy, or 25% if itis crippled before it disengages. This is NOT inaddition to the 25% victory point value if itremains on the table at the end of the game butis crippled.In addition to victory points earned normally, aplayer only earns additional victory points (+1renown) equal to 50% of the value of ANYhulk left on the table (including any refits or anembarked commander) if the ship remains as ahulk on the table and the winning player holdsthe field as described on p.66 of the rule book.Celestial PhenomenaSolar flares now only occur once per game.Rolling multiple instances as celestialphenomena during set-up only means there is ahigher likelihood one will occur, meaning youstill roll a number of D6 at the start of the turnequal to the number of instances the celestialphenomena occurred in set-up. However, onlyone will actually manifest itself during thegame, after which no more rolls are madebefore the movement phase.Ships cannot shoot into or out of an asteroidfield.Free turns provided by gravity wells can beused even when the ship cannot normally turn,such as when under All Ahead Full or Lock Onspecial orders. They can also be combined withCome To New Heading special orders.Transports and Planetary DefensesOrbital defenses or ships that count as defensesmay be placed in squadrons, with 1HP defensesgrouped in up to six units and larger defensesgrouped in up to four. A Ramilies Star Fortcannot “squadron” with other orbital defenses.7
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