Editing Combat Summary

=TURN PHASES=

 '''<u>PHASE 0: PRE-ENGAGEMENT</u>'''
 * Before the engagement begins, players must determine their battlegroup’s starting positions.  They can do this by either choosing a posture or using uptime actions.
 * If the players aren’t performing uptime actions for this engagement, they simply choose a position and posture for their battlegroup as the fleet heads toward combat (see p. 48).
 * If the players are performing uptime actions, they can either use the Set a Posture uptime action to choose a position or they can use Plot a Course to perform another action and then roll to find out where their battlegroup drops out of nearlight (see p. 51).

==PHASE 1: LOGISTICS==
''Battlegroups that wish to surrender or retreat (if able) must do so at the start of the round, before the Logistics Phase.''

* Remove counters from '''CHARGE''' weapons, '''PAYLOAD''' weapons, and expended '''RELOADING''' weapons and upgrades.

* Exhausted '''ESCORTS''' and '''WINGS''' are readied for use.

* Resolve any upgrades, abilities, or effects that take place during the Logistics Phase. Make sure everyone is on the same page and ready to move on.

==PHASE 2: IMPACT==

* '''CHARGE''' weapons that have reached 0 Charge Counters may either fire, rolling to hit, or hold their attacks.

* '''PAYLOAD''' weapons that have reached 0 Flight Counters automatically hit.

* Roll damage for any '''CHARGE''' and '''PAYLOAD''' weapons that have hit.

* Battlegroups may roll Interdiction and reduce the result from relevant attacks.

==PHASE 3: ACTION==

* Battlegroups take turns using Manoeuvrers and Tactics, alternating between player and NPC battlegroups.

* Non-'''CHARGE''', non-'''PAYLOAD''' attacks made during this step resolve immediately.

* Commanders roll to repel boarders from each boarded ship at the end of their turn.

=BASIC MANOEUVRERS=
''All player battlegroups have access to the same set of basic manoeuvrers.''

 '''<u>ALL AHEAD FULL</u>'''
 Your battlegroup may advance forward by one range band, and you may fire one '''PRIMARY''' weapon before or after moving.

 '''<u>OPEN FIRE</u>'''
 Your battlegroup remains in its current range band, devoting all extra power to its weapons: you may attack with one '''SUPERHEAVY''' weapon or up to two different '''PRIMARY''' weapons.

 '''<u>RETROGRADE BURN</u>'''
 ''Choose one'':
 * Your battlegroup falls back one range band.
 * Until the end of your next turn, you may ignore the next hostile effect that would force it to move.<br></br>
 Either way, your battlegroup becomes '''BOLSTERED''' until the end your next turn, gaining +1d6 Interdiction and granting +2 '''DEFENCE''' to each ship in the battlegroup.

 '''<u>RAMMING SPEED</u>'''
 You may only use this manoeuvrer at Close Range or Point-Blank, and only if your battlegroup is able to move. Advance your battlegroup to Point-Blank, then choose one of your CAPITAL SHIPS and a hostile CAPITAL SHIP: both ships take 2d6 damage that cannot be prevented in any way.<br></br>
 Ramming is not considered a standard combat doctrine by any major naval power and capital ships are never designed with such actions in mind, but desperate times may call for desperate measures.

=BASIC TACTICS=
''All player battlegroups have access to the same set of basic tactics.''

 '''<u>CAREFUL SHOT</u>'''
 By adjusting weapon power outputs or ordering your gunnery crews to carefully place their fire you can launch an attack intended to disable an enemy ship without annihilating it outright. Until the end of your next turn, your battlegroup’s attacks, including damage dealt by '''AUXILIARY''' weapons, cannot reduce hostile ships below 0 HP and cannot critically hit. '''SUPERHEAVY''', '''CHARGE''', and '''PAYLOAD''' weapons ignore this effect, as they are too powerful; even a glancing blow from a long-spool weapon is enough to cause catastrophic damage.<br></br>
 When you reduce a ship to 0 HP using this tactic, you may choose to disable it instead of destroying it; it is dead in the water, unable to flee or attack.<br></br>
 The main purpose of the Careful Shot tactic is to avoid the more destructive results on the Kill Table (p. 53), should a commander wish to capture an enemy ship more or less intact for in-character reasons. Be aware, however, that even “careful” shots with naval weapons are still massively destructive. Although ships targeted by this tactic may not be destroyed, there may still be narrative effects: the attack may have struck critical components, caused a breach in the starboard fusion chamber, or exposed compartments to hard vacuum.

 '''<u>LOCK FIRING SOLUTION</u>'''
 You focus legion processing power on lining up a perfect shot or tracking an especially wily target, sharing the revised telemetry data with the rest of the fleet. Nominate a hostile '''CAPITAL SHIP''' or '''ESCORT'''; that ship gains a special status called '''LOCK ON'''. Any battlegroup making a single-target attack against a ship with '''LOCK ON''' may choose to gain '''+1 ACCURACY''' on its attack roll and then clear the '''LOCK ON''' status after the attack resolves (hit or miss). This is called “consuming '''LOCK ON'''”.<br></br>
 '''LOCK ON''' lasts until it is consumed or until the end of the next Impact Phase, at which point ships are assumed to have manoeuvred enough to render the targeting data obsolete. '''LOCK ON''' does not stack; a ship either has '''LOCK ON''' or it doesn’t.

 '''<u>EMERGENCY MANOEUVRERS</u>''' 
 Advance or fall back one range band.<br></br>
 This tactic is '''''Limited 1''''', which means each player can only use it once per engagement. It represents the battlegroup undertaking taxing or daring manoeuvrers to reposition itself at a crucial moment, and so it should only be used when it is of the utmost importance to do so.

 '''<u>DEFENSIVE SCREEN</u>'''
 Smaller ships are often tasked with providing a defensive screen for larger vessels, supporting and protecting them while they coordinate fighter-tier activities or bring devastating weapons to bear. This tactic can only be used by a battlegroup that contains at least one active '''FRIGATE'''; '''CARRIERS''' and '''BATTLESHIPS''' are too ponderous to provide effective screening.<br></br>
 Choose a '''FRIGATE''' under your command and assign it to screen for another '''CAPITAL SHIP''' in your battlegroup or for an allied '''CAPITAL SHIP''' within the same range band. Until the start of your next turn, all attacks and abilities targeting the screened ship have a 50 percent chance of being intercepted. Roll a die or flip a coin to determine this. Abilities or attacks that are intercepted must either be aborted (wasting the action) or target the screening '''FRIGATE''' instead. If the attacker cannot target the screening '''FRIGATE''' for some reason, it may then choose another valid target, not including the screened ship. Once assigned to protect a ship, a '''FRIGATE''' cannot be ordered to screen for another vessel until the start of your next turn.<br></br>
 '''FRIGATES''' cannot be assigned to a defensive screen if they’ve also attacked on the same turn, and '''FRIGATES''' on protective duty cannot use weapons except for '''AUXILIARY''' weapons as they must concentrate on intercepting incoming threats. If the screening '''FRIGATE''' is destroyed, all effects it was providing to screened ships immediately end. Only a single '''FRIGATE''' can screen for another ship at a time, and '''FRIGATES''' cannot screen for other Frigates that are also screening.

''Battlegroups that include an '''ESCORT''' or '''WING''' (or some other upgrade or ability) with '''BOARDING''' gain the following additional tactic:''

 '''<u>DEPLOY BOARDERS</u>'''
 Assign an '''ESCORT''' or '''WING''' with '''BOARDING''' to board a hostile '''CAPITAL SHIP''' within range. Once assigned to board a ship, a boarding unit can no longer be used for any other purposes until that boarding action ends. It cannot be damaged, targeted by attacks or effects, or repair HP unless specifically noted.<br></br>
 Certain weapons or systems also grant the ability to initiate boarding actions separate from this tactic.