Special Orders...

[silashand]

Just a quick question since it's been a while since I played and it came up in a game the other day. When do special orders go away, is it at the end of the turn in the maintenance phase or when a ship/squadron is activated in the next turn?

Cheers, Gary

 

[Mean Mutton]

Just a quick question since it's been a while since I played and it came up in a game the other day. When do special orders go away, is it at the end of the turn in the maintenance phase or when a ship/squadron is activated in the next turn?

Cheers, Gary

It's never come up for us but I'm assuming you're asking in case of Start Attack Run! or Give Me Ramming Speed! against an enemy which did a Close Blast Doors! in the previous round?

If so, the Close Blast Doors! special action specifically says "However, for each point of Damage or Crew taken this turn, roll one dice(sic)." This is pretty clear in that if you get rammed the round after or get attack-runed before the ship goes, you don't get the blast door benefit. Is there a different case you're looking at?

 

[Burger]

All special actions from all ships are cleared at the end of the end phase. They may go away earlier than that in some circumstances, for example:

"Activate jump engines" goes away immediately when the ship that made that special action goes through the jump point, and the jump point closes. You cannot make another SA of course, since SA's are (meant to be) declared at the start of that ship's movement.

All special actions will end immediately if a ship becomes skeleton crewed (and has no flight computer), or receives a "no special actions" crit.

You might as well remove SA's for All Power To Engines and Come About immediately (or just not bother putting tokens down) since they don't affect anything after movement phase anyway.

 

[Anbar]

can you 'lose' a pending special action (that you declared and rolled for earlier) via enemy action ?

i.e. you take a critical hit that results in "no SA"...and say if that ship had yet to fire but had earlier declared (and passed) a SA of 'Concentrate All Firepower'

Can that ship now still fire using the CAF SA or has it lost it due to the no SA critical result?

 

[Greg Smith]

It will lose it. And consequently be able to fire at other ships.