Posted: 21 April 2006 at 8:00am | IP Logged

Say an S7 with 6 shields is taking 9 points of damage. Half of its strength is 3 points of damage. The 9 points of damage would normally take down the shields and do 3 hull points of damage. This card would essentially repair (prevent) 3 points of damage to the shields.

The ship would STILL take the 3 points of hull damage.

The usefulness of this card is that it is an E card that prevents damage.

Posted: 22 April 2006 at 4:51am | IP Logged

Witht he verdict from War Vet I would say that The cards best use would be against boarding decks only.  This would prevent any boarding (and a few other cards) that only operate with shileds down.  Witht he pairing with other cards there are probably other pairings that work. 

It should also work against the shield fiend. The fiends card states that it damages the shield and the emergency power prevents that damage.

And the extra point question I have.  Is the amount of prevention 1/2 the strength of the ship or the current strength of the ship.  Eg a S10 flagship is down to 2 structure points  does it prevent 5 or 1.  In a game I would say 5 because the power equipment would be the same in both scenarios, unless damaged..

Posted: 26 April 2006 at 12:44am | IP Logged

Heavy weapons are physical and destroy shields I would think. But I looked into 2.0 rulebook and glanced over Eric smith's combined rules and didnt see any rules.  So I would say that boarding parties would  be needing rules.  I never used'em.

Posted: 26 April 2006 at 7:49am | IP Logged

Yes, it would work against a Shield Fiend.

Is the amount of prevention 1/2 the strength of the ship or the current strength of the ship?

The card does not say "current strength" then you would use the actual strength (in your example it would prevent 5 damage to the ship's shields). Also keep in mind if you have a card that increases/decreases the hull strength it WOULD affect this card. The damage the ship has taken does NOT affect the card.

It would be a Passive Equipment, and could be used on disengaged ships.

The Boarding Party rules were clarified in Galactic Fire (#2 or #3). They would have been made part of the next printing of the rulebook.

I think the only reason to assume that shuttles can go through shields and transporters can't is that some transporters specifically say "not through shields" and other transporters, such as the R/E6 Oscillating Transporter, specifically say they can go through shields.

This is almost correct. We do cover it in the rules in Galactic Fire, but yes, if the card doesn't say that shields block its transportation of crew then they do not.

Posted: 25 November 2006 at 6:37pm | IP Logged

Question.. according to your initial post, your opponent used multiple ships in the volley.  Did you use the tractor beam to pull all the fire to your ship? It was always our groups understanding that you can only tractor ONE ship out of the volley not all of them.  We came to this conclusion from the wording on the Tractor Beam card.

-When a base or ship tractors a ship, the tractored ship may only fire weapons at the tractoring unit.

-Additionally, damage from this weapons fire is halved(drop fractions).

-This card is discarded at the beggining of the owning player next turn.

- Only ship cards may be tractored.

The wording indicates the tractoring of only one ship not ship(s) which would indicate one or more.  Of course I hope you are not discarding the tractor beam.