User manual GAMES PC STAR TREK-THE NEXT GENERATION-BIRTH OF THE FEDERATION

[. . . ] BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:32 Page 1 Star Trek: THE NEXT GENERATION® Birth of the Federation TM BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:32 Page 2 First Edition, May 1999 Underlying computer code and manual © 1999 Hasbro Interactive, Inc. STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION TM, ® & © 1999 Paramount Pictures. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of Paramount Pictures. Used under license. ii BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:32 Page 3 Table of Contents Introduction: Explore the Final Frontier . [. . . ] ­Klingon maxim BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:34 Page 62 7 Tactical Combat Screen Initiate Combat Window When your task force encounters an enemy task force in the same sector on the Main Galactic screen, the Initiate Combat window appears with a description of the initial combat situation and three buttons: Hail, Fight and Auto. Initiate Combat Window Click on the Hail button to signal the enemy starship to avoid a fight before entering the Tactical Combat screen. If all parties involved hail each other, then the impending battle is called off and you return to the Main Galactic screen. Click on the Auto button to display the results of combat without showing the actual combat. Click on the Fight button to bring up the Tactical Combat screen. Here, you can either give specific commands or allow the AI to control your starships during battle. 62 BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:34 Page 63 Tactical Combat Screen 7 Strategic Turn Timer Tactical Combat window Tactical Panel Tactical Events window Tactical Combat Screen The Tactical Combat screen also appears when two other races fight in an inhabited solar system under your control. In this case, you can only view the battle, not participate in it. Tactical Combat Window The Tactical Combat window shows where your starships and your enemy's starships are located in relation to each other. For the duration of Tactical Combat, your starships are no longer in task forces, but in groups of like classes instead. You can view the combat between groups as your starships carry out your commands. 63 BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:34 Page 64 7 Tactical Combat Screen Click on the Tactical Viewpoint buttons to change your point of view of the combat. You can replay the battle by selecting the Playback button. Tactical Commands Menu To issue tactical commands, click on the starship you want to send orders to. This selects a group of similar starships belonging to you and brings up the Tactical Commands menu. Since not all tactical commands are available to all starship types, the menu only lists the available tactics for your task force. Tactical Commands Menu Click on the tactic to select it. Then click on the enemy starship to target it and all enemy starships of the same class. If your group was cloaked before Tactical Combat began, they will automatically uncloak when you assign them a tactic. The available tactics are: Assault 64 The selected group will approach the selected target to fire at medium range. BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:34 Page 65 Tactical Combat Screen 7 Charge Circle The selected group will approach the selected target to fire at close range. The selected group will remain within weapons range of the selected target by circling it while firing at long range. The selected group will take evasive action from enemy starships but not retreat. The selected group will only fire weapons if enemy vessels approach within weapons range. The selected group will fly past the selected target while firing at medium range. The selected group will remain close to the selected target by circling it while firing at close range. The selected group will hail the selected target in hopes of establishing a peaceful encounter. If all potential combat participants hail each other, then the combat ends. [. . . ] These structures also reduce the amount of troops that can be deployed by a troop transport for a ground invasion, making invasions difficult until they have been destroyed. Klingon Planetary Shield Shipyards Shipyards are facilities that allow an empire to construct starships. To build them, construction is the required technology field. Each empire's homeworld starts the game with this structure. 147 BOF ALL TOGETHER-singles 25/05/99 13:35 Page 148 Appendix B A shipyard cannot build starships unless there is sufficient dilithium available. Active shipyards also extend the range of a starship and enhance the rate of repair to damaged starships docked there. Other Structures Federation Shipyard Depending on the empire you play and the planets that exist in your solar systems, you may have several other structures available to you that enhance the output of system-level resources, such as aquaculture centres that can be built on aquatic worlds. [. . . ]