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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diplomat123" data-source="post: 5033401" data-attributes="member: 45627">I was the other half of the play test with Russ the other day.  He has covered most of what we found, but didn't say why Heroes didn't work. In the fight he had two capital ships, one of which had a legendary engineer and a bold captain, meaning that that ship could make four rolls a round at +2 to repair, repairing 12 points a time.  The other capital ship could make one roll at +0 for 10 points.  So i ignored the first and threw everything at the second.  It wasn't that the heroes had no effect, but the effect was to make that ship unattackable (as i saw it). On my side i had a fighter squadron leader.  The squadron moved on its inititiative and attacked.  The target ship moved off.  THe squadron leader then got to blast empty space a bit on his turn.  Russ and I agreed that for most things it would work better if the hero acted on the initiative of the ship he was on. Generally the battle (Galactica vs Enterprse and friends) felt very good thematically and the ships acted much as they should do from the screen.  tbc</blockquote>