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Restore a Site REST Example: 0101 1616 REST 1615 1614 Time required: One pulse of movement Use this order to restore a devastated site to normal production levels. It costs an amount of resources equal to what the site usually generates as income - e.g., if your devastated site normally produces 35 food and 70 people, it costs 35 PE and 70 FP to restore it, not 105 EPs. Any ship can issue this order, but must be in the hex of the site being restored. This order cannot be used by a crippled ship or one with a crew below 2. Thanks to their extensive, built-in laboratory facilities, survey and notification ships can restore devastated sites at half the normal cost. Heal Weak Crews CURE Example: 0110 CURE 0111 Time required: One pulse of movement This is used by a hospital ship (only) to restore crews to their previously achieved levels. For example, if a ship of level 7 loses crew to a radiation zone, it can be restored to 7 with a CURE order. Normal repairs will not do this; it is the hospital ship's main advantage within the game. Crippled ships cannot use this order. The hospital ship can cure any number of ships in its hex at once. These need do nothing special, but must remain still during the pulse they are healed. There is no fee for using the CURE order. Note: Take note of the fact that it is the hospital ship, NOT the afflicted ship, which issues this order! It works this way because ships with crew-0 have no order spaces in which to write such an order. Drop a Decoy DECY or DECC Example: 0309 0409 DECY 0509 DECC 0609 Time required: One pulse of movement This ship order allows you to drop a decoy in a hex. Any ship may "drop" one by issuing this order, assuming you have one in stock at the time. (You can purchase decoys with the BY miscellaneous order.) The DECY order takes one pulse of movement to issue. Decoys cannot be dropped in the same hex as a site. A crippled ship, or a ship with a crew of 2 or less, cannot issue this order. If you want the decoy to be cloaked when dropped, issue DECC instead of DECY. This will confuse your opponent's scans for cloaked ships. There is no additional cost to use DECC instead of DECY, and you do not have to be playing Romulans to use it. Collect Decoys COLL Example: 0201 0216 COLL 0201 Time required: One pulse of movement When you feel a decoy has outlived its usefulness, you can pick it up with this order. Simply move any ship into the decoy's hex and use COLL. The decoy will be returned to your stockpile for later re-use, at no penalty to you. Any number of decoys can be collected at the same time using this order. Crippled ships and ships with a crew level below 2 cannot use COLL. An interesting tactic some players use when crossing sector boundaries for the first time is to drop as many decoys as possible in your scout's hex. Any free movement pulses the ship has available should be used for this purpose, once the border has been crossed. These decoys will then help defend the ship if it is attacked before or after it makes its scan. The scout then collects the decoys and proceeds onward. Give Away Optional Items GIVE Example: 1212 1211 GIVE 1210 Time required: One pulse of movement This order can be used by any ship, regardless of its damage status or crew level. When GIVE is issued, the ship sends all fighters, PFs, drones and T-bombs it is carrying (and its MRS, if it has one) to any other ship in the same hex. Each ship in the hex will take what it can carry, starting with the oldest ship first and proceeding onward. For this order to work properly, the ships receiving items should not move on the pulse this order is issued. The ship which issues GIVE will keep any items which are left over (they are not lost). GIVE has a very powerful application when used by a facilities ship. Facilities ships make not only the items they are carrying available, but ALL items in your Home Office's stockpiles! Remember, the oldest ships in the hex with your facilities ship will take first pick of any optional items that are made available in this way. After using GIVE, a facilities ship will automatically refill its own personal store of optional items if there are any left over. The facilities ship's version of the GIVE order is quite powerful, as it allows you to keep a fleet supplied with optional items even though no base is present. However, facilities ships are rather hard to come by. There is a civilian specialty ship (the FTF), but you can only buy one per game. The only other known way to get one is to get a generic ship to crew level 9 and change to the "F" mission. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 48
Andromedan Displacement DISP Example: DISP 29 0214 Time required: One full turn This ship order activates the Andromedan displacement device (DisDev), which is found only on that race's larger ships. The presence of the device is indicated with the "J" variant letter. The DISP order takes the entire turn and must be followed with a sector and hex to transport to, as shown in the preceding example. Both the current AND destination hex must contain starbases. You must own both of these bases! When your Andro displaces, any ships linked to it will be moved along with it. Terrain in the hex you are displaced into or from does not affect the displacing ship or any satellites carried by it. Displacement cannot be used by ships with a crew less than 2 or by a crippled Andromedan. Andromedan Satellite Link LINK Example: LINK A INT 1 Time required: One full turn This order allows a small Andromedan vessel (known as a satellite ship) to link up with one of their larger ships. When the mothership moves, the satellites will then move with it (they do not issue the mother ship's special orders, however). This is resolved as follows. During any movement pulse, the mothership moves first. After the effects of terrain have been resolved (causing whatever damage, crew loss, teleportation effects or whatever), the computer updates the positions of all linked satellites so that they match the mothership's location. The computer then resolves any combat which might occur. When issuing the LINK order, state the race, class and number of the ship to link to. LINK takes the entire turn (no other orders can be issued). Both ships must begin the turn in the same hex. The amount of satellite ships that any given Andromedan ship can carry will be shown on your Orders Sheet as "SS#" where the # indicates the number of satellite ships carryable. All Andromedans smaller than cruisers are considered satellite ships; no other ships can be carried in this way. Note: Even though only Andromedans can use this order, and can normally only link to Andros, you must still specify the race in the LINK order. This is because it's theoretically possible for the mothership to not be Andromedan, although this could only happen due to a random event. The LINK order must be issued each turn; it is not a permanent setting. It has no effect on combat. Note that since the order takes the entire turn, the ship which LINKs cannot do anything else during its turn, such as train or pick up officers. It is limited solely to following its mothership. At the end of the turn, a ship's linked status is cleared, so if the mothership and satellites are scanned by another player before your next turn is run, all of them will appear as separate blips on their scans. The primary advantage of this order is that the satellites take no damage when the carrier enters hostile terrain (unless it is destroyed, in which case all satellite ships die as well). For example, a mothership such as the Dominator (A- DOM) could easily survive a variable pulsar because of its huge shield factor, but the satellites would die if unprotected. If linked to the DOM, however, they will not be affected by the pulsar (although the Dominator would be, of course). As another example, if a mothership with linked satellites passes through a swept minefield (see the SWPx order earlier in this chapter), only the mothership counts against the limit of ships that can pass safely through the hex! Linked satellites move at the speed of the mothership, even if they have been damaged or have a slower speed for other reasons. In addition, if the mothership issues the DISP order, any linked satellites move along with it! This gives Andromedans the greatest movement flexibility in STAR FLEET WARLORD. Garrison Fighters/PFs at a Site GARR Example: 1312 1311 GARR 1310 Time required: One pulse of movement This is a utility order which allows a carrier or tender to directly transfer fighters or PFs it is carrying into a site's garrison. These items can be allocated to site defense using miscellaneous orders (see Chapter Seven), but this method is often used when there is a shortage of orders or when your ships no longer need to be carrying those items. Using the GARR order is simple: the ship simply flies into the desired hex and issues the order. There is no need to specify a quantity of items to be sent to the garrison; the ship makes all of them available and the site will accept what it can (extras will be left on the ship). Sites can hold a number of fighters equal to 1/20th their fortifications and an amount of PFs equal to 1/50th their fortification level. Thus, a 600-point <strong>Star</strong>base could hold 30 fighters and 12 PFs. You may not garrison fighters or PFs at any site located in terrain which these items will not operate in. This means you cannot assign fighters to NE, IS, AZ or NF, and you cannot assign PFs to NF terrain. Any attempt to do so will be automatically canceled by the ship's captain. Revised 30 June 2010 Page 49
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Page 3 and 4: Chapter One Introduction and Backgr
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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
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Page 15 and 16: Race Sites Combat Prospect Federati
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Page 21 and 22: Heavy Drones (HDs) Drones are basic
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Page 43 and 44: Prospect PRSP Example: PRSP Time re
Page 45 and 46: Raid a Site RADx Example: 1612 RAD4
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Page 65 and 66: Scan Hex SH SH sector hex Example:
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Page 75 and 76: the second T-PC, destroying it. The
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Page 81 and 82: 9.12 Star Fleet Battles Glossary Al
Page 83 and 84: Phase Description Appendix A - Sequ
Page 85 and 86: Appendix C - Minor Sites Type Descr
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Page 91 and 92: Variant Description J Displacement
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Officer Cost Effect A Ace Pilot W W
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