User Guide

COLONIZING PLANET

CHAPTER 4

this turn, and the second number is the total movement available over two

turns. A yellow or red split number indicates that this aircraft should be head-

ing for a nearby base to avoid the risk of a crash.

Choppers are air units, but they don’t run out of fuel. Instead, they need

ongoing maintenance when in regular use. If a chopper does not end its turn

in a base or airbase, it takes a small amount of damage. (Damage is repaired,

over time, when the chopper is at a base or airbase.) This damage weakens the

chopper in combat, and can result in the chopper falling apart and crashing,

if allowed to continue too long without repairs in a base or airbase.

DESIGNING UNITS

As you advance technologically, you are given the option of using units pre-

assortment of components. Custom-designed units allow you to specifically

tailor units to your personal mission needs and also make full use of some of

the more exotic special abilities. New components are discovered in conjunc-

tion with many technology advances (see Special Abilities Table, p. 183). For

example, High Energy Chemistry allows you to build with plasma steel armor

and nerve gas pods.

To design a new unit, press U, or access the Design Workshop Screen from

the HQ menu or the Production Readout.

Units are made up of up to six components:

• Chassis

• Armament

• Armor

• Reactor

• Special Abilities (up to two)