Silent Front

Units & Combat

Units and Combat

Combat is fought in volleys and counts whole units. Each side has a weapon power — the number of enemy units one volley removes — and nothing is fractional.

Weapon power belongs to the SIDE, not the unit. A stack of a hundred fires exactly as hard as a stack of one; the extra ninety-nine buy rounds of survival. Your numbers are a hit-point pool and your weapon power is the gun.

Where the fight happens decides who shoots first, and that is most of the game.

Fighting in the open

When two moving groups collide between outposts, fire is SIMULTANEOUS: both fleets loose their volley every round, so a group destroyed this round still gets its shot away. Nobody has the initiative, which means an even clash annihilates both sides.

Attacking an outpost

A siege is different. The garrison has the initiative — it fires first, then the sides alternate — and a force defending its own outpost gets bonus weapon power. That is why taking a held position costs far more than holding one.

Base weapon power
1
Defender bonus
+1
Base reach
2.00 AU
Operation slots
3–7

A shield is extra BODIES rather than damage reduction: shield points are spent before any garrison unit dies, so each one buys a whole round during which the garrison keeps firing at full strength.

What a defender holds is hidden from you. Their garrison may carry research you cannot see and their shield does not show at all, so every prediction against an enemy outpost is optimistic. Bring a margin.

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