Name Ablative Armor Disruptor Warheads FTL Array GARDIAN Array Multicore Shielding QEC Array Tantalus Drive Thanix Cannon
Cost 2 6 2 4 4 4 4 6
Rank 1 2 3 2 3 4 5 4
Notes Ignore destroyed or dispersed (1/battle) Ignore Kinetic Barriers (1/round) Grants FTL Uplink trait Grants GARDIAN trait Grants Kinetic Barriers trait Feat sharing When destroyed, is instead dispersed (1/battle) May use Fire Main Gun trick
Mass Craft
Table 21: Warship Upgrades
Tantalus Drive: Once per battle when this unit know more about your fleet than you do. This ship is destroyed, it is instead dispersed. may ignore any effects that reduce its Force rating. Thanix Cannon: This unit may use the Fire Main Cost: 4 (2 for Salarian commanders) Gun trick. This upgrade may only be applied to Turian Cruisers or Frigates. With crews that are notoriously stubborn and systems built to handle severe punishment, Turian vessels rarely retreat in the face of overwhelming With the GM’s permission, when you purchase odds. Once per battle, this vessel may ignore being a new vessel you may pay the indicated cost to add dispersed and continue to fight on as normal. Cost: 6 (3 for Turian commanders) one of the following templates to it. Each vessel
Racial Ship Templates
may only have one racial template unless the GM specifically grants special permission otherwise.
Sample Warships
Asari Here are some examples of warships that your Built on technology perfected over millennia, players may encounter in the Mass Craft universe. Asari vessels are the finest there is, without exception. This unit receives +1 Force. Destiny Ascension Cost: 6 (3 for Asari commanders) Asari Advanced Dreadnought + Ablative Armor, Disruptor Warheads and QEC Array Geth Cost: 51 Reputation (48 for Asari commanders) Much like its smaller brethren, this vessel is a living artificial construct. This ship requires no crew, and is considered to have an Intelligence and Wis- Geth Dropship dom score of 6. Geth Heavy Corvette + FTL Array Cost: 10 (1 for Geth commanders) Cost: 20 Reputation (11 for Geth commanders) Human Fast and highly adaptable, Human vessels are Normandy SR-2 prone to using innovative tactics. Once per battle, Human Advanced Frigate + Ablative Armor, you may choose one enemy vessel or fortification Multicore Shielding, QEC Array, Tantalus Drive to be excluded from the rest of the battle. You may and Thanix Cannon not select a vessel that has a Force higher than your Cost: 40 Reputation (38 for Human commanders) best Force rating, and you must pay an amount of Reputation equal to one half the vessel or fortifica- SSV Normandy SR-1 tion’s cost (rounded down). Human/Turian Light Frigate + Disruptor Cost: 4 (2 for Human commanders) Warheads, GARDIAN Array and Tantalus Drive Salarian Cost: 33 Reputation (31 for Human commanders, Equipped with top-of-the-line sensor arrays and or 30 for Turian commanders) highly accurate codex entries, Salarian vessels often
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