ACTA-SF

[shadowbloodmoon]

hey guys, my friend and I played our first game the other night, Federation v. Klingon. He had two Chicago and one Ortega. I had two D7 and a D6. The game went fairly well and stayed pretty close until a string of misses with a point blank phaser and torpedo volley cost him the game. nonetheless, a number of questions came up and most were answered here and with the faq. However, I didn't find (or look hard enough) the following:

1. Does Accuracy count towards bypassing shields? We didn't think so, considering we thought that would make phasers far more powerful than we figured was intended. We went with only natural sixes, but wanted the official rule.

2. Is there any way, other than using Boost Power to Shields! to regenerate shields?

3. When a Critical Location escalates, does the ship take the extra damage?

I believe that's it. I'm sure there will be more later. Our apologies if these seem elementary...

 

[MongooseMatt]

1. No, natural 6's only.

2. No, that is the only way during battle!

3. It does indeed!

 

[shadowbloodmoon]

awesome, thanks matt! I had 1 more if you don't mind, on using tractor beams for drone defense. it says the ship can use the tractor beams to defend against drones as a last resort. does that mean you have to fire every weapon available first? on the same token, can you use all your tractor beams against every a drone attack in the turn?

Thanks again!

 

[billclo]

awesome, thanks matt! I had 1 more if you don't mind, on using tractor beams for drone defense. it says the ship can use the tractor beams to defend against drones as a last resort. does that mean you have to fire every weapon available first? on the same token, can you use all your tractor beams against every a drone attack in the turn?

Thanks again!

I believe you fire every other weapon first, then tractors as a last resort. Any drone not stopped by tractors hits you. You can use a given tractor bean once a turn against a drone.

 

[Myrm]

awesome, thanks matt! I had 1 more if you don't mind, on using tractor beams for drone defense. it says the ship can use the tractor beams to defend against drones as a last resort. does that mean you have to fire every weapon available first? on the same token, can you use all your tractor beams against every a drone attack in the turn?

Tractors being a last resort means than in the order of doing defensive options Tractors come last - otherwise you can freely choose the order of doing things - but as soon as you select tractors then you cannot for instance choose to then use phasers.

Each tractor beam can be used once per turn - so no you cannot use all of them against every drone attack - if you have Tractor Beams 2, once you have rolled 2 tractor beam dice in the turn you are out for the turn....that said you can use one of them on one volley and have the other for the next set of drones.