storeylf said:It will certainly be interesting to see how Hellbores are handled, but envelopers also need to handle the hard to shoot down aspect as well, and unlike Hellbores they do not put most of their damaged through a single weak shield, so they are not usually going to inflict the same percentage of internal damage against a shielded ship.
Actually I wonder how much use they will be in a single shield arc type game and its the touchness of the shoot down. As a first approximation - power drain, no energy bleed, takes 2 phaser hits to take a dice off, ships with shields above zero when it hits take half damage (ie all around Klingon front shield effect which doesnt stack with the Klingon rule)