Hey Guys

We got confused by the rules about how a huge ship can attack.

1- It can perform one standard attack, ok we guess this is the main weapon build in the ship

2- or a special attack, what does it mean ? We can see any header "attack" on any card upgrades

3- Bonus attack: does it mean for example you can shoot an Ion Battery and then decide if you use the "bonus attack" option ? If it's the case, does the basic shooting of a hardpoint count as " standard attack", "Special attack", or " Bonus Attack" ??

Not sure if I'm being clear enough, but if someone can help that would be great :)

From my understanding special attack would be ordinance, cannons, turrets, … Just like a regular small, medium, large base ship they can choose what they are attacking with.

1)

The primary attack is the one printed on the huge ships card.

2)

It can perform the primary or any one special attack due to equipped secondary weapons like cannons, missiles etc with the Attack header on it.

E.g. Proton Torpedoes has the secondary attack: „ Attack ([lock]) : Spend 1 [charge]. [...]“. You cannot use the attack printed on the proton torpedo upgrade card without using its attack header and fulfilling the listed requirements.

3)

Huge ship upgrade cards allow you to perform the listed attack as Bonus Attack which you can use in addition to your primary or secondary weapon.

Again you cannot use the printed attack on the upgrade card without using its bonus attack header and fulfilling the listed requirements. You can also use each bonus attack header only once per turn.

Overall example for a Raider:

Primary Attack (primary weapon)

+Ion Cannon Battery (bonus attack)

+Ordnance Tubes-> Cluster Missiles (bonus attack)

+Ordnance Tubes-> Proton Torpedoes (bonus attack)

Special Attacks are attacks with Special Weapons

RR pg 18 : Special weapons appear as “Attack:” headers in card text. They provide additional types of attacks other than a ship’s primary weapon(s).

4 hours ago, Capt.Yog said:

Bonus attack: does it mean for example you can shoot an Ion Battery and then decide if you use the "bonus attack" option ?

Not really no. Anything thats a "Bonus attack" cannot be used during the ships one 'standard' attack during the engagement phase. However they *can* be used in addition to the standard attack either before or after it.

See Rules Reference pg 35 under Attacks for more info.