Officer Spotlight: Sol Weapons Officer

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  1. Vesuvius_SWIE

    Vesuvius_SWIE Administrator Staff Member

    WEAPONSOFFC.jpg One of the five Sol Officers is the Weapons Officer -- who has a dynamic impact on the performance of the weapons systems. There are 12 skills available to this Officer:

    Since the Weapons Officer has 5 levels, it means that you can only pick up to 5 out of these 12 skills.
    * The prime skillset it the Accuracy Skill, which improves dramatically at level 5.

    The Weapons Officer levels up from Experienced -> Expert -> Master -> Veteran -> Elite
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    Last edited: Nov 11, 2016
    Vesuvius_SWIE, Nov 9, 2016
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  2. ShadowJudge

    ShadowJudge Member

    Ah, this is more heroes of might and magic style, what I've been looking forward to :)
     
    ShadowJudge, Nov 9, 2016
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  3. 0b1000010

    0b1000010 Member

    What is the difference between active and passive skills?
     
    0b1000010, Nov 10, 2016
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  4. Vesuvius_SWIE

    Vesuvius_SWIE Administrator Staff Member

    The passive skills are working in combat all the time:
    Eg. Accuracy I with 5% increase to hit is a permanent boost.

    Active skills need to be clicked on/activated -- and are usable once per battle:
    Eg. Lucky shot you activate on allocation round for one weapon, and you have a 80% boost in accuracy for that one weapon that one time.
     
    Vesuvius_SWIE, Nov 10, 2016
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  5. NightWolf

    NightWolf Member

    How is a battle defined? Is there a cooldown? thanks.
     
    NightWolf, Nov 10, 2016
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  6. MLocke

    MLocke Member

    I also want to know can you stack skills? Like damage boost + lucky shot?
     
    MLocke, Nov 10, 2016
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  7. Vesuvius_SWIE

    Vesuvius_SWIE Administrator Staff Member

    A battle is defined as going into a region for combat, and then leaving a region. So you cannot re-use an active skill more than once in such a battle (unless you leave the region and come back again). They tend to be a lot more powerful, thus that one-time use. Besides that, there is no cooldown.

    Indeed Locke, you can stack skills. A good one is lucky shot + overload, so you guarantee that the massive damage hits where its supposed to.
     
    Vesuvius_SWIE, Nov 10, 2016
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  8. Lesiak

    Lesiak Member

    To me, overload weapon seems to be the most powerful/dangerous skill. I'd go for upgrading the weapons officer first.
     
    Lesiak, Nov 11, 2016
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  9. Kahless

    Kahless Member

    Overload for the win!
     
    Kahless, Nov 11, 2016
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  10. Kai55

    Kai55 New Member

    Wonder if it would make any sense to have a class 2 ship and beef it up with skills. Zip around the map and do hit and runs, at low cost on XP? Would require a daring captain, that's for sure.
     
    Kai55, Nov 26, 2016
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  11. Coser

    Coser Active Member

    Kai55,

    That, with the exception of doing it with the Sol Class 3 "Orchis IV" vessel, is kinda what I plan to do. Damage Boost, Range Boost, Lucky Shot, and 2 levels of Overload, 5 levels of Evasion from the Helmsman, Sensor Boost, and the skill that reduces enemy sensor range, and you start to see the plan I am forming. "Hit hard, hit fast, and move on discretely to hit again."
     
    Coser, Dec 5, 2016
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  12. J.Sousa

    J.Sousa New Member

    2 points: Damage boost and Range boost. That will be useful anytime.
     
    J.Sousa, Dec 17, 2016
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  13. MLocke

    MLocke Member

    On further observation I think the passive skills are all better than active ones because you have them all the time, not just once per battle.
     
    MLocke, Jan 2, 2017
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  14. Coser

    Coser Active Member

    True, but there is a definite use for a couple of the actives. I myself am concentrating on the passive skills over the active ones as you do get the benefit round after round, not just for one round only.
     
    Coser, Jan 3, 2017
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  15. SirElric

    SirElric Member

    Maybe not lucky shot but the weapon over load damage thing I think is an incredible one for a one-shot kill.
     
    SirElric, Jan 3, 2017
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  16. Coser

    Coser Active Member

    And that is exactly why you NEED Lucky Shot. Who wants to see that incredible one-shot kill whistle past the enemy hull and fly harmlessly into space?
     
    Coser, Jan 3, 2017
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  17. Nickman77

    Nickman77 Member

    I'd be firing that lucky shot only if I could do it at point blank range. Though I guess if from what I hear the explosion damage can be nasty, I'll do it to soften up my enemy.
     
    Nickman77, Feb 11, 2017
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  18. Vesuvius_SWIE

    Vesuvius_SWIE Administrator Staff Member

    Yes indeed, explosions of any ship nearby from 1-4 hexes will do damage to your ship.
     
    Vesuvius_SWIE, Feb 13, 2017
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  19. Coser

    Coser Active Member

    I think I prefer the phrase "A ship explosion will do damage to ANY other ship nearby, up to a maximum range of 4 hex, depending on the class of the exploding ship.".

    Nice, juicy Genarii troop transport explodes, the ship it was supplying loses it's extra marines and a shield. Possibly gets damaged. Maybe your fleetmate gets a better shot in.

    Oooooh, this game is going to be so tactical. [/kid at Christmas ]
     
    Coser, Feb 14, 2017
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  20. NightWolf

    NightWolf Member

    Now about friendly fire, if your fire on an enemy and blow him up and your ally happens to be right next to the enemy ship, I guess you sealed his end too heh
     
    NightWolf, Feb 14, 2017
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