Apprentice Traveller...

[jmt]

Just played my first solo game (in preparation for teaching it on Monday night). Most of the game flows well, but I had one question regarding the Buccaneer card and combats in General.

I take Beowulf ( 0 0 ) and have one of the crew fly the Armed Gig ( +1)with Jim Thorne ( +1) into combat against the Buccanerr ( 1 1 1 ). As the player, I attack first and do 2 damage to the Buccaneer which exceeds its 1 and vaporizes the pirate scum. However...

(1) Is combat simultaneous or sequential? I assume simultaneous from the way the rules are written.
(2) As the Beowulf has 0, the 1 of the Buccaneer does what to the ship? There isn't any shown on the card, so does that imply 1 and my ship is blown out from under me?

Thanks
jmt

[Horizon Ian]

Both ships will deal and receive damage to each other at the same time when dealing with complications.

Damage received to your ship that is not assigned to upgrades incurs expenses that are met by spending cards for their EV as any other expenses require. Complication ships don't target upgrades, so it's just an expense.

As an aside, your ship can never be removed except by bankruptcy, where the captain can't meet payments to keep it flying.

[jmt]

Thanks, Ian. I re-red the rules this morning and see the particular rule you reference.

[Shijuro]

In that example, wouldn’t Jim Thorne’s player have to choose between Jim’s combat ability and the Armed Gig, as either would require him to Thorne?

Although it seems counter-intuitive, wouldn’t it be better to shove someone with no combat ability into the Armed Gig and keep Jim on the unarmed ship to use both buffs?

[jmt]

Yes, you may be correct - I don’t know that exausting a crew prevents the use of attached gear.


This was just an example from a he top of my head not a game example

[Horizon Jeff]

is an that requires . There's a couple of places this information appears in the rulebook, typically in sidebars (to highlight it).

So in the case of Jim Thorne, it would make more sense to give Armed Gig to someone else. But remember, can be moved during the Ready Phase, so if he's the only you have out, you can attach it to him and move it to another later.