All Hands on Deck!

[Kirksfolly]

I was showing the rules to a friend of mine yesterday when a question arose over this Special Action.

Under the Damage control rules (page 11) it clearly states (3rd paragraph), 'A player may only attempt to repair one location on each of his ships.'

The All Hands on Deck! special action states that 'the ship gains a +2 modifier when attempting Damage Control and can attempt to repair any number of critical hit locations in this End Phase.'

From this, I would say that the SA over-rules the standard rule and allows more than one critical repair attempt. For example, if the ship were currently suffering critical hits in 3 different locations then it would test for each of those locations to see whether damage repairs had occurred, all with a +2 modifier to the roll. However, I obviously don't want to misinform someone so can anyone please either confirm or refute this for me. I don't mind being wrong! :lol:

The other thing I noticed when reading this SA is the phrase 'If successful' BUT the Crew Quality check is 'Automatic', so what do you have to do successfully to carry out the SA?

Thanks for your help.

 

[GalagaGalaxian]

Might be another one of those annoying holdovers from either Noble Armada and/or a previous playtest draft of the rules.

 

[Rick]

The Crew check to perform 'All hands on deck' may be automatic, but you will still need to roll for the critical hit repairs in the end phase - they are not the same roll! I think GG is right about the 'if successful' thing being a holdover from a previous set - curiously the NA wording is the same as the SF one - Automatic and 'if successful'!

I believe the intention of the special action is that you attempt to repair more than one location, not necessarily the criticals. If you have level 1 criticals in every location but, say, a level 3 in one - you would still only get one attempt per location, even though you could have a go at every location!

 

[Greg Smith]

The other thing I noticed when reading this SA is the phrase 'If successful' BUT the Crew Quality check is 'Automatic', so what do you have to do successfully to carry out the SA?

It is automatic. That is a hold over from B5 ACTA, when it wasn't.

 

[Kirksfolly]

I thought maybe an earlier version had required a crew test or something to make the SA so thanks for clearing that up chaps.

 

[Greg Smith]

I think it goes back as far as first edition Babylon 5. It was changed to automatic in second to help mitigate bad criticals.