Tarnung und wieder aktiverte Schilde

Cut schrieb:Dann bekommt das Schiff einen Tarnmarker. Dieser wird auf der roten Seite dem Schiff zugeteilt.

swashi schrieb:

Cut schrieb:Dann bekommt das Schiff einen Tarnmarker. Dieser wird auf der roten Seite dem Schiff zugeteilt.

Ehrlich der wird erst mit der roten seite platziert nach der tarnaktion? Wir haben den bisher immer mit der grünen seite platziert.auf rot wird der nur gedreht wenn man getarnt einen angriff durchführt. Muss ich die regeln nochmal studieren...sonst hab ichs bisher immer falsch gespielt

Andrew Parks schrieb:

Creating Attack Wing: Cloaking

One of the most challenging parts of designing Attack Wing involved the implementation of cloaking technology. Cloaking is an essential part of Star Trek lore, so we knew we had to blend it carefully into the system.

One of our first decisions involved the very nature of cloaking in the game. Would we use a hidden movement system, allowing ships to move around invisibly without the other players aware of even their approximate whereabouts? While this might seem fun at first, it would not complement the existing system very well. First of all, part of the appeal of Attack Wing is the sculpted miniatures. If the cloaking ships' locations are completely unknown, we would have to represent them on the table with blips instead of the actual models. Also, Attack Wing is a game about space combat. Spending half the game trying to ascertain the approximate location of the enemy might work for a mission or two, but it would eventually make each normal session take too long, especially if a cloaked ship decided to stay cloaked indefinitely.

After considerable research (that is, watching LOTS of episodes and movies with cloaking!), we realized that a good portion of the time, a scanning ship would develop some technology that would give it an approximate sense of the enemy's whereabouts. While this by no means negated the benefits of cloaking, it at least allowed a ship to have some general sense of where its cloaked enemy was located. Because of this, we decided that a cloaked ship's miniature would remain on the table, and that it would benefit from having a Cloak Token placed beside it.

There are two immediate benefits to being cloaked in Attack Wing: 1) you can't be target locked (which saves you from many Secondary Weapons such as Photon Torpedoes); and 2) you gain 4 extra defense dice each time you defend in battle. The second benefit represents the fact that although an attacking ship might have a general sense of where its cloaked enemy is located, there is still a good deal of guesswork involved in hitting the ship directly. Since most ships in Attack Wing only have an Agility of 1 or 2, gaining an extra 4 dice is a big benefit to being cloaked.

Of course, there are downsides to being cloaked also. After all, since a cloaking device is installed in the same area as a ship's shield system, it's nearly impossible to cloak with your shields up. Therefore, you have to disable all of your Shield Tokens when you perform the Cloak Action (and you have to have at least 1 Active Shield left to do so). Therefore, although it's difficult to hit a cloaked ship, anything that goes through damages the hull directly. This leaves a cloaked ship with a difficult choice, especially after it's been struck for the first time. Does it de-cloak and raise shields to protect its hull, or does it stay cloaked and risk annihilation?

We quickly realized, however, that while this system was simple and straightforward, there is more to cloaking than just being hard to hit. There is an element of subterfuge where an enemy thinks you're in one position but you're actually somewhere else. And so we added the Sensor Echo Action to the game. Since a ship can choose to stay cloaked from turn to turn, a ship that is already cloaked can perform a Sensor Echo Action, which shifts the position of the ship to the left or right (think Barrel Roll but with twice the range!) This allows a clever player to move into a much more advantageous position, and it really feels like the enemy has misjudged your true position when it happens!



Sensor Echo Diagram (you can use the Straight 1 OR the Straight 2 Maneuver Template)



The last wrinkle for implementing cloaking involved timing during the Combat Phase. Most ships in Star Trek have to come out of cloak in order to fire (although there are Tech Upgrades that can allow ships to avoid this at some expense). When we were first playtesting, we had a rule where a cloaked ship that fired its weapons lost its Cloak Token immediately afterwards. Even though we allowed that ship to immediately raise its shields, over time we realized there was a major timing issue. Essentially, the problem lay with the fact that a Captain of high skill fired first during the Combat Phase. Therefore, highly skilled Captains were getting penalized because they were forced to de-cloak at the start of the Combat Phase, while weaker Captains were firing last and therefore didn't mind losing their Cloak Token.

This was a major problem with our system. But after many lengthy discussions, we came upon a solution. Just as the Shield Tokens were double-sided, we made the Cloak Tokens double-sided as well. Now, when a cloaked ship fires, it must flip its Cloak Token over from its green side to its red side. This ship still has the benefits of being cloaked for the rest of the round, and this simulates the fact that the ship has suddenly appeared out of nowhere. However, at the end of the round, a ship with a red Cloak Token must de-cloak and raise its shields, while a ship with a green Cloak Token can choose to stay cloaked and keep its shields lowered for another round.



Cloak Token (double-sided)


This fixed the problem handily. We had to adjust one or two other rules to deal with the system's unique timing rules (such as allowing players to Target Lock a ship on the same turn that it cloaks), but after more playtesting and development, cloaked ships with skilled Captains were no longer penalized in any way. The system worked much more smoothly, and the decision to cloak, to fire while cloaked, or to use Sensor Echo instead of another action became integrated into the regular decisions of the game.

Conclusion

There are many other rules that had to be developed for Attack Wing, such as 3-player rules, wider firing arcs for some ships (and rear firing arcs for others!), as well as special rules for highly advanced weapons and technology, but those rules will be revealed as we get closer to the game's release!

Andrew

swashi schrieb:Mei cut...was wären wir ohne dich

DonGrilleto schrieb:

Swashi: Wir haben es mit den Token gestern genauso gehandhabt wie du. Aber jetzt hab auch ich dazu gelernt.

Cut schrieb:
Tatsächlich legen der Aufbau des Regelheftes und die Formulierung einen vermeintlichen zeitlichen Ablauf fest, wobei ich bisher die Reihenfolge für irrelevant halte, da in der Endphase einer Runde ja quasi nur aufgeräumt wird.