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Variant Andorian Heavy Battle-Station never saw

action given that the war actually ended

Andorian Intervention seven months prior to the ti rst of its class

by Rick D. Stuart
EDITOR'S NOTE:
This piece was actually the tail end of the
SFB variant scenarios run in A G's 3&4.
In that regard, Scenario 5 posits Andor-
ian intervention and late arrival. Lacking
the scenarios, it may still be used in any
scenario c. 1st Romulan War.
In the Romulan war the Andorians,
members of the Federation, were omitted
from the final order of battle given the
postulation of an early "demobilization"
of their national fleet in favor of a unified
starfleet. As such the Andorians, while
Maximum Movement Allowance:
2 Hexes
Tu,n Mode:
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Shield 11
Movemenl Cost Pe, Hex:
1½/perhex
Laser Range/ Damage:
8 hexes/ 2 points dam8ge per hit
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serving among combined starfleet crews,
did not have an actual space navy with
which they could be physically repre-
sented.
However, once it was determined that
the war was l ikely to be a long one, the
Andorians industriously began the con-
st ruction of an entirely new c lass of
vessel wh ich, borrowing innovations
gleaned from the new cruiser design
then on the drawi ng board, saw the
eventual resul t as a hybrid between a
small base-station and a heavy cruiser
loosely interpreted) . In any case the
Abbrevia1ion:
8TTV: Balteries. APR: Aux. Power
Aeac1ors. MR: M!sslle Racks (3
missiles per rack, Mk. I) Shull:
Shuttrecralt. Part.: Particle Beam
Cannon
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being completed! However, for those
who like to experiment the SSD for the
proposed "Andor" Class battle-station is
given here and may be included i n either
the last scenario, (assuming that the
Andorians pressured other members to
hold off their attack until they could be
included), or given that the war lasted
for one more year, p la·yers may w ish to
design their own scenarios in which the
mobile base-station is i n operation.
Use the base-station counter to repre-
sent this mobile weapons-platform but
in all other respects the "vessel" acts just
like a sh ip either side might employ. In
addition to the statistics given, players
should note that the standard BVP's for
t his ship class is 75, making the Andor a
very powerful ship in combat, but not the
type one would risk every day . .. Un like
other star-faring navies, the older Andor-
ian fleet had a patent preference for
particle beam weapons vs. standard ship's
lasers. While doctrinal limitations dictat-
ed the need for the standard armaments
to be deployed as the station's main
weapons system, the Andorians included
a pair of token Particle Beam Batteries
aboard the AN DOR for close-in fighting.
The particle beam weapon is favored
by the Andorians given that damage is
three times the standard laser. (Hits for
particle weapons here are rol led for on
the laser table and are determ ined as

ill Armor
standard laser rolls, but each hit will
yield three damage points, not one.)
The major drawback of the particle

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Laser
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weapon is its enormous power consump-
tion. Whi le one unit of power is sufficient
to energize all of a given ship's lasers,
two units of energy are required to
power each particle weapon. Moreover,
Hull 1 II Hull particle weapons are restricted to two
BTTY
hexes in range.
The result is an excellent close-range
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weapon (here used in an anti-missile
capacity) but clearly inferior to standard
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fest.
Players wishing to design their own
Is I2 I1 I1 I I MPULSE I61614121 scenarios using ships of this period may
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modify the SSDs of those vessels includ-
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SCANNERS
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EXCESS DAMAGE ed here by replacing lasers with particle
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weapons. As a guideline players should
-FEDERATION "ANOOR" CLASS SATTLESTATION-
substitute one particle weapon box for
every two laser boxes removed.

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