Combat

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Combat occurs when one fleet encounters another as the result of an Attack. The attacker's ships immediately fire on the defender's ships and defenses, if there are any. If the attacker destroys all ships and defenses, and still has cargo space available, plunder will occur.

How it Works

Combat lasts until either the attacker's or defender's forces are completely destroyed or six rounds of combat take place. In each of the rounds, all of the attacker's and defender's units fire randomly at the opposing fleet's units simultaneously. If any unit strikes a unit against which it has Rapid Fire, that unit will get a chance at firing an extra shot, also randomly. This will repeat until all units fail on their random Rapid Fire chance or hit a unit against which they do not have Rapid Fire.

Weapons

The damage dealt from each shot is equal to the shooting ship's Weapons Rating. So for instance an Artemis Class has a Weapons Rating of 50. If it hits an Atlas Class it will deal that Atlas 50 damage.

Shield and Hull

Damage done to a ship in each round is first absorbed by that ship's Shield Rating and then the remaining damage subtracts from the ship's Hull Rating. An Atlas Class has a Shield Rating of 10 and a Hull Rating of 400, so if it were shot by an Artemis Class, which deals 50 damage, the first 10 would be absorbed by the shield and the remaining 40 would reduce the Atlas's hull to 360.

Shields replenish between rounds but Hull does not repair until the end of battle. So in our example above, in round 2 the Atlas would start with 10 Shield again and only 360 Hull. After round 2, if it survived, it would have a Hull of 320.

Ineffectiveness Rule

Any attack that does equal to or less than 1% of the maximum Shield Rating of a unit is absorbed. As an example, The Artemis Class has a base attack of 50 and the Large Decoy has a base Shield of 10,000. Since 50/10,000 = .005 (.5%), any number of Artemis could never damage a Large Decoy that still has its Shield even partially up.

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Result

Attacker Wins

At the end of combat if all of the defender's ships and defenses have been destroyed, and the attacker has ships remaining, the attacker will have won the battle and will Plunder the defender's planet.

Defender Wins

At the end of combat if all of the attacker's ships are destroyed, and the defender has ships or defense remaining, the defender will have won combat. No Plunder will be received by the attacker.

Draw

If at the end of combat both sides have ships left, or all ships have been destroyed, the battle will have been a draw and no Plunder will be received by the attacker.

See Also