Damage

All models have a Rating that indicate how much damage they can sustain. Capital Ships and terrain have a Structural. Squadrons have a Damage rating.

Squadron Damage

Anti-Squadron Attack results only use the Magnitude of the Result, not the Value. Apply each result individually.

Example: A Jovian Pathfinder Exo-Armor Squadron is under attack from a massive Missile Attack from a CEGA Uller. The Uller rolls a [D2,T3], and the Pathfinders fail to reduce the Uller's results with their Point Defense. The Pathfinders suffer a total of 3 damage, and must mark off 3 total Damage rating.

Damage to squadrons is marked from right to left. models whose Damage rating is reduced to zero are removed from the table as casualties. Exo-Armor and Fighter models that suffer a [Q+] result are destroyed regardless of damage rating remaining.

Crippled Squadrons

Exo-Armor and Fighter models that only have small damage boxes remaining are Crippled. A Crippled Squadron suffers the following penalties:

• Reduced to Fire Control: 1
• Cannot Boost,
• May only select from the following Special Actions:
  • Repair (requires Repair Trait)
  • Withdraw

Capital Ship Damage

Both the Magnitude and the Value of the Result are relevant for resolving Capital Ship damage.

• [N]: All unique dice results: The Attack has no effect.
• [D]: Each [D] set reduces a system by 1 rating. A system is either Defense, Sensors, or Thrusters. Which system is damaged is determined by the Result value.
• [T]: -1 Structure rating. In addition note the value of the number of the set and consult the critical damage table for additional critical damage effects.
• [Q+]: Resolve two [T] results, using the Value of the [Q+] result.

Example: A CEGA Wyvern targets a capital ship with its Mass Drivers. The Wyvern’s Mass Driver has a AC:2 rating. The CEGA player rolls 2D6 for the attack rolling [2, 2]. The [D2] results reduces the target’s point defense system rating by 1, then the Wyvern may continue to attack with its AC missiles.

A model that is reduced to 0 Structure Rating is Crippled. A model cannot be reduced to less than zero structure rating.

Damage Effects

Systems Damage Effects

• When a system has zero rating remaining further hits to that system are randomized to any remaining systems.
• A hit to a system that has been reduced to zero rating will cause the hit to Escalate.
• Doubled value boxes are redundant system boxes which increase the damage required to reduce the rating of a system.
• The current rating of a system is always the rightmost unmarked box.

• Defense - Damage to the Point Defense system reduces its effectiveness. A ship 0 Defense rating may not support friendly Models that are the target of Missile Attacks
• Sensors - Damage to Sensors reduces the effective range of weapons by 3" per rating of Sensors lost. This only affects the Long Range of weapons.
• Thrusters - A ship may only turn as many times as its current Thrusters rating.
  • Most ships may turn only once, so having a Thrusters rating over 1 represents redundant thrusters.
  • Ships with 0 Thrusters may only turn after passing a Skill check with a [D+] result.

System Traits

Some Capital Ships have additional systems that can be damaged in addition to hits to the Defense, Sensor, or Thruster damage.

• These additional systems generally come from Traits the ship has.
• System Traits are damaged by critical damage effects.
• Each critical damage effect reduces a System Trait raiting by one.
• A System Trait with a rating of zero may not be used.
• One rating of a System Traits may be Repaired on a [D+] result.

Weapons

• Weapons are damaged by critical damage effects.
• The damaged weapon is determined randomly.
• Damaged weapons may not be used to attack.
• Weapons may be Repaired on a [D+] result.
• Mark the weapon as damaged on the box provided on the data care.

Marines

• Marines can only be damaged by critical damage effects or attrition from boarding actions.
• Lost Marine ratings may not be Repaired
• Marine rating should be tracked by marking lost rating on the boxes provided.

Speed

• Speed may only be reduced by critical effects and represents engine damage.
• Engine damage may be Repaired with 1” of speed rating returned with a successful [D] repair roll and 2” of speed rating returned for each [T+] result.

Critical Damage

When a Capital Ship is damaged by a [T] result refer to the table below to determine the effect of the attack

Crippled Capital Ships

When a Capital ship is Crippled (reduced to 0 Structural Rating) it is Crippled. If a Crippled ship remains on the table, i.e. it is Adrift not Dead or Exploded, it obeys the following rules:

• A Crippled ship counts as Destroyed for objective point purposes.
• A Crippled ship is reduced to Fire Control: 1.
• During its activation:
  1. Randomly choose a turn direction by rolling 1d6:
     • 1-2: Port - The ship turns 45 degrees to port at the start of its move.
     • 3-4: Straight - The ship may not turn.
     • 5-6: Starboard - The ship turns 45 degrees to starboard at the start of its move.
  2. Move 2". You may not interrupt this move to attack or perform a Special Action.
  3. Declare Attacks or Special Actions
• A Crippled ship may only take the following Special Actions:
  • Repair
  • Withdraw

Each Crippled ship rolls on the Catastrophic Damage table when:

• The ship loses its last Structure and enters the Crippled state for the first time.
• You start the Deployment Phase of a turn.
• The ship would lose another point of Structure (ships cannot be reduced below zero Structure).

Catastrophic Damage Table

Roll 1d6 + the number of Systems that have been reduced to 0 rating and consult the appropriate line in the table below:

Explosion:

• All models within 3" of the exploding ship suffer an AC/AS attack with Base Pool equal to the starting Structure rating of the ship +1.
• All models within 3" + 1d6" suffer an AC/AS attack with Base Pool equal to half of the ship's starting Structure Rating.

Example: An Uller Capital ship is reduced to 0 Structure rating and Crippled. It has zero point defence and thrusters. The attacker rolls 1D6 and gets a [5]. Adding 2 for the system ratings at zero gives a result of 7 and a result of "Dead". The Ullers owner removes it from the table and replaces it with a 2" diameter Wreck marker.