About the Battle Board

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The battle board is the grid you see in the Battle VCR. The fleets are distributed on the board as tokens. Each token is a stack of identical ships from a single fleet. The individual tokens move around the board targeting enemy tokens, following the tactics specified in their battle plan. Each location can contain any number of tokens.

Battles last up to 16 rounds. One round of battle is each token getting a chance to move and fire. A round is broken into phases, where one phase is a single token moving or firing.

Each round has three parts:

♦        First, all tokens target an enemy token that best meets their battle plan criteria.

♦        Second, all ships move, in order from heaviest to lightest. Ships' weights are randomly adjusted by up to 15% each turn, giving  ships that are nearly identical a chance to alternate going first. All ships that can move three squares this round move one square first, then all ships that can move two squares move one square, then all ships that can move at least one square move a square.

♦        Third, weapons fire, in order from highest initiative to lowest.