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Setup
Players are separated into teams of three, one of each team is selected to be captain by posting first. The captain has the privilege of naming the ship.
The objective is to destroy the opponent ships or kill their crew. This can be accomplished by a variety of means, including direct laser fire, special weapons, and inter-ship boarding.
Ship Layout
Each ship is composed of several sections which provide access to certain ship functions. Each ship is identical.
Each section has four levels of damage, green (none), yellow (light damage), red (heavy damage), and grey (critical damage). A ship is destroyed when all three hull sections and the teleport chamber are critically damaged. Critically damaged sections can damage crew members that move through them. When a section is damaged, any crew members inside will also be damaged. If the ship is destroyed, all captains and crew members on board die as well (unless they have the Escape Pod card).
A section that provides a feature (lasers, sensor pod, engines, shield, teleport chamber) is considered non-functional when critically damaged. If a crew does not repair heavy damage within two of their turns from when it becomes heavily damaged, it will become critical damage after that second turn.
Ship Sections
Bridge: The captain can only control the ship and use his captain specific cards from the bridge while it is not critically damaged.
Hull (left, right, front): Vital to the ship's survival and central to crew member's movements. A crew member may repair the sensor pod from the front hull.
Teleport Chamber: Exact center of the ship, counts as one of the 4 sections needed to be critically damaged for the ship to be destroyed. Can be used by a crew member to transport him/herself to an enemy ship in a random location. provided that ship's shields are down. Users will not be transported to currently occupied sections. The user’s turn ends after teleporting.
Invading players can use the enemy ship's teleport chamber to return to their ship, or jump to another enemy ship with the shields down. But they may not use it if a enemy occupies the teleport chamber.
Struts (left, right): Allows access to the side pods.
Pod (left, right): Allows access to the lasers, a crew member may repair the connected laser from the pod.
Engineering: Allows access to the engines, a crew member may repair either engine from engineering.
Laser (left, right): Can be fired each turn by the captain from the bridge, causes 1 damage to a random section of an enemy ship provided it hits. When heavily damaged, -1 to hit. Cannot contain a crew member.
Sensor Pod: Laser shots are much more accurate when fully active, several cards require the sensor pod to be functional when used. When heavily damaged, -1 to hit. Cannot contain a crew member.
Engine (left, right): Used for certain card effects. When critically damaged, every ship that fires on you gets a +1 to hit. Cannot contain a crew member.
Shield: Absorbs any damage and all special weapons while functional instead of other sections. Self-repairs each turn by 1 point if not critically damaged. Cannot be repaired by crew members, but can be fully repaired by the captain using the 'shields up!' card. Cannot contain a crew member.
Play
At the beginning of every turn, the captain recieves 'captain cards' until he/she has 4, and also draws 'crew member cards' until he/she has 2. Crew members receive crew cards until they have 4.
Captains also have the ability to turn in any number of cards in their hand allowing them to draw as many fresh replacements as they want next turn. Crew members may do the same, but with only two cards. Each turn, the captain and crew can use as many cards as they like. Cards can be swapped between hands as long as both individuals are on the same ship, but there must be an exchange, not a gift.
Crew cards that affect a section can only be used on the section you are in or adjacent sections, depending on the card. No throwing plasma grenades out the window and onto an enemy ship's shields!
Captain and crew members can move about the ship, allowing access to different features of the ship. A captain or crew member may move through up to 3 sections a turn. Players may not enter a section occupied by an enemy player. The following actions prevent any further movement in that turn:
-Using your phaser.
-Using a captain card.
-Entering a critically damaged section.
Every turn, the captain may fire the ship’s lasers from the bridge. By default, this has a 1d8>4 chance of hitting an enemy ship. This may be increased or penalized by certain cards and ship damage. A captain may not control a ship or use captain cards and then move out of the bridge on the same turn.
Cards that you play that have long-term effects ‘per turn’ only take effect during your turn.
Example turn:
Captain plays weapons calibration and strafing run on an enemy ship. Commander moves to right strut, then plays force field and redshirt. Lieutenant-commander doesn't move, but plays two redshirts, a repair brigade, and a heal.
Every crew member of a ship plays their turn in the order that each crew member posted, and the turn is passed to each ship from left to right.
Equipment
Each crew member and the captain carry a phaser which does 1 damage to a enemy crew member or section of an enemy ship, this weapon may be fired at adjacent sections and crewmembers within them.
Each crew member and captain can also have a number of 'redshirts', each redshirt counts as a extra point of damage the crew member can take from enemy phasers, and act as a sort of 'resource' for certain cards. Entering a critically damaged section and being in a section that takes damage (except by phaser) also kill a redshirt (for each damage point). Redshirts are going to die, a lot.
Special Rules
A captain that invades a ship may go to the bridge, once there he may dedicate a turn to taking full control of that ship so long as no enemy is present.
When a captain dies, a crewmember can volunteer to become Acting Captain, those that do are then limited to 2 captain cards and 3 crewmember cards due to their inexperience. They may keep the crewmember cards they currently have, but not draw more until they are under their limit.
Crewmembers may also freely defect to enemy ships, if their captain will accept them, and they have no captain nor acting captain.
To take over an enemy ship that is no longer crewed, the captain must enter the bridge.
Repair Lvl 1 (x10): Repairs the section you are in by 1 point. This may be discarded at any time by a crewmember in addition to the usual one other card. May not be used to repair a critically damaged section.
Repair Lvl 2 (x6): Repairs the section you are in by 2 points.
Repair Lvl 3 (x4): Repairs the section you are in by 3 points, fully repairing it
Redshirt (x20): Increases your redshirt count by 1.
Fire Brigade (x3): Increases the amount of damage you deal with a phaser attack by 1 point per 2 redshirts.
Repair Brigade (x4): Allows you to repair the section you are in and adjacent sections by a number of points equal to your redshirt count. You may distribute the repaired points between the affected sections in any way you wish.
Redshirt Dive! (x6): Protects you and your redshirts from all damage. Automatically triggers when you sustain 2 or more damage. Expends one redshirt.
Boarding (x4): Instantly board an enemy ship at a section of your choosing, even if their shields are up. Can also be used to return to your own ship. Will not transport a player into an occupied section. The use of this card ends your turn.
Escape Pod (x5): If the ship you are on is destroyed, this card automatically activates, you do not die, but enter a temporary “escape pod” ship. This ship can be fired upon by other ships, and acts as a teleport chamber.
Phaser Rifle (x4): Increases your phaser damage by 2. This card takes effect as long as it is in your hand.
Plasma Grenade (x4): Deals 3 damage to everyone in a section and damages the section by 1 point. Can be used on adjacent sections. Has a 1d6<3 chance of botching the throw and blowing up the section YOU are in.
Plasma Charge (x3): Kills everything inside a section and deals 3 damage to it 2 turns after placement. If a member of that ship's crew enters the same section that the charge is placed in, he/she may attempt to disarm it. There is 1d6>3 charge is disarmed, 1d6>2 chance for captains.
Photon Bomb (x2): Deals 3 damage to a section and 2 damage to all adjacent sections 2 turns after placement. If a member of that ship's crew enters the same section that the charge is placed in, he/she may attempt to disarm it. There is 1d6>3 charge is disarmed, 1d6>2 chance for captains.
Force Field (x4): Blocks enemy access to the section you place it in. If placed in the same section an enemy is in, they are trapped. Continuous effect until force field is destroyed (2 damage).
Heal (x6): Increases health of you or a team-mate in the same or an adjacent section by 1 up to a maximum of 3.
Decoy (x4): Creates a dummy clone of yourself and cloaks you from other players. The clone will move randomly and appear to play cards, but these cards will have no actual effect. While cloaked, the cards you play and your true location are hidden, until 4 turns have passed or an enemy attempts to move into a section you are in.
Energy Shield (x4): You take 1 less total damage from all sources (a single player and multiple critically damaged rooms count as one source, etc). This card takes effect as long as it is in your hand.
Short-Range Teleport (x6): You may “skip over” a section to one adjacent to it. For example, you may move from the left pod to the left hull instantly. This counts as moving through one section.
Gas Mask (x4): Protects from the effects of the Gas Missile card. This card takes effect as long as it is in your hand.
Incendiary Grenade (x4): Deals 1 damage to a section and everyone within every turn after the one in which it is thrown for 3 turns. Can be used on an adjacent section. Has a 1d6<3 chance of botching the throw and hitting the section YOU are in. Repairing the section will dismiss this card.
Repair Bot (x5): Creates a robot with one health that you can move independently (the same as a crew member). Using it, you may play Repair cards remotely in whatever section it is in.
Security Bot (x2): Creates a robot with two health that you can move independently (the same as a crew member). Using it, you may use your phaser remotely in whatever section it is in (though you may not use cards through it).
Nano-Heal Injector (x2): Increases health of you or a team-mate in the same or adjacent section by 2, allowing you to go over the maximum of 3. This overheal lasts 2 turns.
Anti-Personnel Mine (x4): Laid down in a section, the next enemy passing through that section will take 3 damage.
Lock On (x8): Lasers have a +1 to hit this turn. Can be stacked. Sensor pod must be functional.
Evasive Maneuvers (x4): Enemy ships get a -2 penalty to hit you for each functional engine for 2 turns. If both engines are functional, Aimed Shot is not a guaranteed hit.
Overcharge (x2): Doubles damage from the lasers for one turn.
Photon Torpedo (x1): Physical special weapon. Has the same chance of missing as a laser. Deals 3 damage (instant critical) to one section and 1 damage to adjacent sections on an enemy ship. Sensor pod must be functional.
Aimed Shot (x4): If the sensor pod is functional, laser shots and physical special weapons will not miss this turn. If the sensor pod is undamaged, you may specify exactly what section a shot will hit.
Shields Up! (x4): Fully repairs the shield. Requires engineering to be functional.
Nano-Repair (x2): Fully repairs all hull sections and the teleport chamber. Requires engineering to be functional.
EMP (x1): Electronic special weapon. Enemy captain cannot use or receive captain cards for 3 turns. Sensor pod must be undamaged.
Weapons Calibration (x3): Laser shots and physical special weapons will bypass enemy shields. Sensor pod must be functional.
Ramming Speed! (x1): Physical special weapon, does not miss. Deals 2 damage to all sections on enemy ship. But causes 1 damage to all hull sections and 3 damage (instant critical) to the bridge on YOUR ship. Requires both engines to be functional. If shields are up on either ship, they will absorb 1 damage from the bridge downwards.
Strafing Run (x3): Allows lasers to fire three times each this turn. Requires both engines to be functional.
Engine Overload (x2): Electronic special weapon. Deals 3 damage (instant critical) to both engines and 2 damage to engineering on an enemy ship. Sensor pod must be functional.
Executive Officer (x2): A chosen crew member draws a captain card in place of a crew member card next turn. This card may be freely swapped with the captain, and played at any bridge.
Barrel Roll (x2): If the Evasive Maneuvers card is in play, the ship may dodge an enemy physical special weapon. Automatically triggers when relevant.
Sensor Virus (x2): Electronic special weapon. For 2 turns, every section of an enemy ship is displayed as critically damaged, regardless of how damaged it actually is.
Scythe Beam (x2): Physical special weapon, does not miss. Deals 1 damage to 3 adjacent sections on an enemy ship. Sensor pod must be functional. The shield counts as adjacent to itself.
Missile Barrage (x3): Physical special weapon. Deals 2 damage to a section on an enemy ship, 3 times. Each missile has the same chance of missing as a laser. Sensor pod must be functional.
Gas Missile (x2): Physical special weapon. Has the same chance of missing as a laser. Deals no damage, but if it hits, everyone on the ship takes 1 damage on their turn until 3 turns have passed where engineering was functional.
Time Anomaly (x1): Once everyone has played their turn, the order is reversed, starting with the ship that went before you.
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^^^Here are your ships! The first player to sign up for each ship will be the Captain and may name it. The following signup is the Commander, and the last signup is the Lieutenant-Commander (both crew members).
Captain: 10ebbor10
Health: 3
Redshirts: 3
Location: Bridge
Commander: darkpaladin109
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Left hull
Lieutenant-Commander: NAV
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Right hull
Captain: Avis-Mergulus
Health: 3
Redshirts: 3
Location: Bridge
Commander: ShadowHammer
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Left hull
Lieutenant-Commander: Comrade Shamrock
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Right hull
Captain: Deathsword
Health: 3
Redshirts: 3
Location: Bridge
Commander: 4maskwolf
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Left hull
Lieutenant-Commander: Playergamer
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Right hull
Captain: BlitzDungeoneer
Health: 3
Redshirts: 3
Location: Bridge
Commander: Varee
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Left hull
Lieutenant-Commander: Salsacookies
Health: 3
Redshirts: 2
Location: Right hull
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