Damage

When a ship is hit, the attacking player must determine what damage was caused. The Damage Table lists all the possible types of ship damage. The attacking player rolls d100. The result of this roll is modified by the weapon's DTM, and the modified result is found on the Damage table. Modifiers for the various weapons are listed under Damage Table Modifiers. The number listed is added to or subtracted from the die roll.

EXAMPLE: A destroyer is hit by a proton beam battery. The modifier for a proton beam battery is +10. The attacking player rolls d100 and gets a result of 73. The weapon modifier is added, giving a modified result of 83 -- "Defensive Control hit."

Explanation of Results

Hull Hits. Hull hits affect the ship's hull points. The player that scored the huII hit rolls the correct number of dice (indicated by the weapon's HDR) and the result is subtracted from the target ship's hull points. If the result indicates "Double Damage," the attacker should roll the dice and multiply the result by 2.

When more than half of the ship's hull points are gone, the ship is severely damaged and there is a chance it will break apart. Whenever a severely damaged ship accelerates, decelerates or turns, the player controlIing the ship must complete the following steps to determine if the ship breaks apart:

1. Subtract one-haIf (rounded down) of the ship's originaI hull points from the number of points of damage the ship has taken.
2. Multiply the result from step 1 by the number of ADF and MR points the ship is using this game-turn.
3. Roll d100. If the number rolled is equal to or less than the result from step 2, the ship breaks apart performing the maneuver. If the number rolled is greater than the result from step 2, the ship completed the maneuver safely.

A ship that is torn apart is completely destroyed.

EXAMPLE: A destroyer with 50 hull points has taken 32 points of damage. The player that controls the destroyer wants to get it away from the battle as quickly as possible, so he decides to accelerate and turn one hex side. The destroyer's ADF is 3, and 1 MR point is used to make the turn. Subtracting one-half of the destroyer's original hull points from the ship's damage gives (32-25=)7. The ship is using (3+1 =)4 ADF and MR points this turn. The chance the ship will break apart is (7x4=) 28%. The player rolls d100 and gets a 29--the destroyer makes its move successfully! If the player had rolled 28 or less, the ship would have been destroyed.

All weapons cause the same damage when they hit anything other than the hull. The attacker does not roll dice to reduce the ship's hull points unless the result on the Damage Table was a Hull Hit. The number of dice rolled is determined by the weapon that was used.

Drive Hit. A drive hit can cause a ship to lose 1 ADF, one-half of its original ADF or all of its ADF. If a ship with 3 ADF loses 1, its ADF is reduced to 2. If it loses one-half of its ADF, its ADF is reduced to 1 (one-half of 3. rounded down). If the ship loses its entire ADF, its ADF is reduced to 0. If a ship has taken some drive damage, and receives a "1/2 ADF" hit, it loses a number of ADF points equal to one-half of its original ADF.

Losing ADFs does not affect the ship's current speed. A ship that loses its entire ADF can turn, but it cannot accelerate or decelerate. The ship may recover ADF during the Repair Turn.

Steering Hit. Steering hits reduce a ship's MR. The hit will either lower the ship's MR by l, or reduce the ship's MR to 0. A ship with an MR of 0 cannot turn or change its facing, even if it stops and remains in a single hex. Damage to a ship's MR can be repaired.

DRIFTING. A ship that loses all of both its ADF and MR will drift. A drifting ship travels at the same speed and in the same direction it had before it started drifting. It cannot turn, accelerate or decelerate until repairs are made.

Weapon System Hit. If a weapon system is hit, the system that is destroyed is the system that is Iisted first at that Damage Table result. If the damaged ship does not have that type of system, then the system listed second will be destroyed, and so on. If the ship has none of the listed systems, then treat this result as a huII hit. If an LTD system with no ammunition left is hit, the system is still destroyed.

EXAMPLE: A destroyer is damaged in combat. The attacker rolls d100 and gets a 66--Weapon hit: DC. LC, AR, T, LB. The destroyer does not have a disruptor cannon. The next system listed is a laser cannon. The destroyer does have a laser cannon, so the laser cannon is destroyed.

Power Short Circuit. All active defenses on the damaged ship stop working. This includes ICMs and electron, stasis and proton screens, but not reflective hulls and masking screens that have already been launched. No new masking screens can be released, however. Repairing a power short circuit will remove all effects of the hit.

Defense Hit. Defense hits are handled the same as weapon system hits, except defensive systems are destroyed instead of weapons.

Combat Control System Hit. The ship's automatic targeting devices are damaged. The player must subtract 10% from this ship's chance to hit with any weapon.

Navigation Hit. The ship's navigation and steering equipment is damaged. The player controlling the ship must roll 1d10 before the ship moves. If the result is 1-5, the ship must turn to the left in each hex it enters until its MR is used up. If the result is 6-10. the ship must turn to the right. The ship remains out of control until the damage is repaired. If the ship's hull is severely damaged, these turns affect the ship's chance of breaking apart. A stopped ship can ignore a navigation hit.

Electrical Fire. Electrical equipment in the ship is burning. Place a "fire" counter on top of the ship's counter. The player must make another damage roll for this ship with a +20 modifier at the start of his opponent's combat step every turn, until the fire is put out. If a fire causes hull damage, it will cause 1d10 points of damage.

Damage Control Hit. The ship's DCR is cut in half (round fractions up). This can be repaired, the same as normal damage.

Recording Damage

The player that controls a damaged ship must mark the damage on his ship roster. If a weapon or defense system is damaged, then that system is crossed off the roster in pencil. If a torpedo, assault rocket or other LTD weapon is damaged, the entire system is shut down, not just one torpedo or rocket. When a ship's movement ability is damaged, the original ADF or MR is crossed out and the modified number written in penciI. ElectricaI fires, navigation, combat control and damage control hits are recorded in the box labelled "Damaged Systems" on the Advanced Game ship roster.

Most damage is cumulative. For example, if a ship takes three drive hits and each calls for the ship to lose 1 ADF point, the ship loses 3 ADF points altogether. If the ship had only 1 or 2 ADF points to begin with, then its ADF is brought to 0 and all further drive hits are treated as hull hits. Damage will remain in effect until it is repaired (see Repair).

Combat control system and damage control hits are not cumulative. After one of these systems has been hit, any more hits on that system are considered hull hits. Also, a ship can have only one fire at a time, so a result that would cause a second fire is treated as hull damage.

If the damage table indicates a hit on a system that a ship does not have (a weapon hit on a civilian ore carrier. for example), the hit is considered as a hull hit. Likewise, if a hit is scored on a ship's system that has already been destroyed by damage (a drive hit on a ship with no ADF left, for example), that hit is treated as a hull hit.

Defensive Fire

As in the basic game, the non-moving player gets defensive fire at the moving player's ships as they move. The moving player finishes moving, and then the non-moving player can shoot at the moving player's ships in any hexes they traveled through. Any damage that is caused does not take effect until the ships have finished moving, however. For example. a ship that lost its entire MR at the beginning of its move could still maneuver during that turn.