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fortifications there. If the HO has been captured by another player, this restriction is lifted. There is one final movement feature that makes computerized ships all the more annoying. If such a ship is passing directly adjacent to a site which does not fall under any of the headings above (i.e., not in nasty terrain or heavily fortified), it may turn to attack the site. This happens only if the ship passes right next to the site, not if the site is several hexes away. If there is a site directly in the ship's path and another to one side, the ship will always choose to continue moving straight rather than turn. If there are viable sites to either side, the ship will pick one at random. Sometimes a computerized ship will choose to raid an adjacent site rather than turn to attack it. Space Dragons and Orion pirates are the most common users of this tactic. Computer-controlled ships will not do this if the fortifications are too strong for the raid to have any chance of success. Computerized Corporations will occasionally fortify sites they own. Like any other Corporation, they are not allowed to fortify a site on the same turn they capture it. If a site is fortified, no more than 50 points will be added on that turn. Note that this fortification selection is totally random, and is not based on any "artificial intelligence." Thus, for example, if you use long-range drone bombardment to weaken a pirate's base, it will not make any kind of intelligent effort to refortify it. It is possible for computerized Corps to build bases over a very long series of turns, but this is rare - and even if they do build a base, they cannot use it for ship construction. Only the original base of a wild sector pirate, or the Home Office of an NPC Corp, can be used to build ships, and no computerized Corporation uses WGs. A final note: Some play-by-mail games use computer-controlled positions within the game as placeholders, and replace those positions with real players who want to join a game in progress. STARFLEET WARLORD does not do this. Any computerized Corporation will remain computerized from the start of the game to the finish! Despite this, standby positions are sometimes available, but these are positions dropped by actual players who left the game for personal reasons. If you're interested in joining a game in progress, let us know! We'll see if we can find a Corporation that needs a new CEO. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 38
Chapter Six Ship Movement and Special Orders 6.1 Basic Movement Concepts Each of your ships has a movement rate, or speed, as explained in Chapter Four. For your reference, here is a quick rundown of the standard ship speeds: Unit Speed Unit Speed Free traders, express ships, X-frigates 6 WGs, FRDs, monitors, Andromedan sleds 2 Destroyers, frigates, police ships, X-cruisers 5 Obsolete ships and ships with drained warp 1 Cruisers of all other (non-X) varieties 4 Decoys, WGOs, and ships with crew level 0 0 Dreadnoughts and battleships 3 It is quite possible that the speed of a starship can change during play through damage, refits and other factors. It should be noted, however that no matter what improvements are made to a ship, it can never move faster than 6. The movement phase of a turn takes place immediately after your income is calculated. The movement phase is divided into six parts known as pulses, during which each of your ships executes one of its movements. This means (and this is quite important) that your ships will all take their first moves together, then their second, and so on. Slower ships will not be able to move at all in the last pulse(s), and this will be noted automatically on your orders sheet. For example, if you had a Federation heavy cruiser with a speed of 4, and a Klingon F5 frigate with a speed of 5, the movement lines for these might appear as follows: F-CA "Hi" 33-0810 ___ ___ ___ ___ none none K-F5 "Lo" 34-0101 ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ none Since it has a speed of 4, there are four lines in which you may write moves for the F-CA. The remaining two pulses are unusable and marked with the word "none." Similarly, the K-F5 has five lines to match its speed of 5, and only one "none" marker. (Note: The hex numbers shown are the ships' current locations.) It is possible to reverse the movement order of ships, so that slower ships make their moves during the last pulses of the turn instead of the first pulses. This is referred to as Reversed Moves. You can set Reversed Moves "on" (normally it is oft) using a miscellaneous order described in Chapter Seven. If Reversed Moves is on, the "none" markers will appear to the left of the ship's movement lines instead of to the right. As you may have guessed by now, when you want to move a ship, you will write the hex numbers it is to move through in the lines provided on your orders sheet. A ship may only enter a hex adjacent to its current location! Of course, you may chain moves, passing through several other hexes on the way to a particular destination. For example, you might want the K-F5 in the example above to move from its current location in 0101 to 0201, 0301, 0401, 0501 and finally to 0502 as shown in the illustration to the right. To do this you would simply write those hex numbers in the five movement lines for that ship. Note that there is more than one way to get to hex 0502 from 0101. The choice of routes is up to you and depends on many factors, such as the intervening terrain, the movements of your other ships, and so on. 6.2 Failed Movement A ship moves illegally if it attempts to enter a hex not adjacent to its current location. If a ship attempts to move illegally, it will go back to its last legal position, canceling all further moves (but not special orders). This means you should take special care to make sure your ships travel in legal paths! It helps to layout the maps on a table, or post them on a bulletin board, and double-check them for legality. Movement can occasionally fail due to terrain effects (such as weak space unexpectedly transporting a ship elsewhere). This may cause later moves to be unsuccessful. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 39
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Page 3 and 4: Chapter One Introduction and Backgr
Page 5 and 6: 1.5 The Initial Build The easiest w
Page 7 and 8: Chapter Two Economics 2.1 Resources
Page 9 and 10: Bases are important both for site d
Page 11 and 12: Chapter Three Travel Opportunities
Page 13 and 14: Home Offices are a special case. As
Page 15 and 16: Race Sites Combat Prospect Federati
Page 17 and 18: The start of the game is "considere
Page 19 and 20: Integrated Example: Three ships ent
Page 21 and 22: Heavy Drones (HDs) Drones are basic
Page 23 and 24: variant letter "G", are described a
Page 25 and 26: Navigators are useful when you need
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Page 45 and 46: Raid a Site RADx Example: 1612 RAD4
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Page 49 and 50: Andromedan Displacement DISP Exampl
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Page 65 and 66: Scan Hex SH SH sector hex Example:
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Page 69 and 70: change it; you do not have to keep
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Page 75 and 76: the second T-PC, destroying it. The
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Page 79 and 80: or Sunday. Your results sheet will
Page 81 and 82: 9.12 Star Fleet Battles Glossary Al
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Page 85 and 86: Appendix C - Minor Sites Type Descr
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Type Description Entry Effects Comb
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Variant Description J Displacement
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Mission Description Z Heavy Scout T
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Monster Description and Special Abi
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Officer Cost Effect A Ace Pilot W W
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Appendix N - Alphabetical Extra Ord
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Appendix P - Sector Special List Ty
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Appendix Q - Blank Sector Map Revis
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