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I aim the weapon at someone in Australia. What's the damage modifier for someone being under the cover of an entire planet? For the glory of the Empire! I may die but I'm taking you all with me! <Points graviton gun at the ground.> What's the damage modifier if the target is the planet?

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Thanks! That's always been a very useful resource for ACTA. The link doesn't seem to work, it tries to redirect through the Mongoose forum and ends up with a combination of the Mongoose URL and yours. It's easy enough to copy the URL, paste it into a browser and get to the site, but for...

4 is correct. The normal calculation is that 1 point of priority level X is equivalent to 2 points of priority level X+1, so it goes up geometrically with each further increase in ship priority level. The reason for the difference between scaling up and scaling down is that if you got 4 ships...

According to Wikipedia: Perhaps give a bonus to any attack made against a ship carrying Long Lance torpedoes? For example, if the ship takes a critical hit to vital systems, the result is always at least a secondary explosion. Or make all critical hits against ships with Long Lance torpedoes...

A better analogy might be the age of sail, when merchant ships sometimes had fake gun ports painted on the side to make them look like warships in the hope of discouraging pirates. If such a ship was then sunk on sight by an enemy real warship, that would not be a war crime. Back to the...

From https://www.starwars.com/databank/mos-espa:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(91) Aircraft carried: 70 (designed), 50-60 (actual) 1939-1940: 26 x Fairey Swordfish, 24 x Blackburn Skua 1940 - 1941: 30 x Fairey Swordfish, 12 x Blackburn Skua, 12 x Fairey Fulmar 1941: 36 x Fairey Swordfish, 18 x Fairey Fulmar

HMNZS Achilles can certainly be ruled out as she had only one funnel, even after her refit. The big gap between the forward superstructure and forward funnel threw me for a while, but if you put a big mast there then it could indeed be HMS Arethusa or another ship of the class. Allowing for...

You make one roll for all the attacks from that ship on that target.

The best race to play against the Minbari are the Shadows. They're practically made for each other as each exploits the other's weaknesses. Shadows get a +1 bonus to break stealth due to ancient technology, and they have plenty of scouts as it's their only low level ship - which, incidentally...

No, you only get a total of +1 regardless of how many ships have spotted the target. What you do get is redundancy. If one ship has spotted the target and is then destroyed, you don't get the bonus any more - at least, not until another ship spots it. If two ships have spotted the target and...

This turn only. Basically, during this turn, a fighter flight can do one thing only. If it was hoping to attack a capital ship and was jumped by fighters escorting that ship, it will spend this whole turn defending itself against that defence. Successful or not, it's busy and can't take time...

I haven't seen "Babylon 5 Wars", but the only ACTA version I've seen with mixed arcs is ACTA:SF. The ability of the Telekinetic Cutter to be used offensively or defensively also looks like an ACTA:SF phaser. The standard rule for beams is hit on 4+ and re-roll for more hits. So probability of...

Do I detect the influence of ACTA:SF? Several ships have lost their beams, one has SF-style mixed arcs, and another has a weapon looking suspiciously like a phaser. ;) The Shrouded Saber is perhaps still too strong for Armageddon level when compared to the standard Dark Knife. The normal...