Those printed rules?

My group of four played our second game last night. I got absolutely hammered and my bad moves included an early collision with my team mate. When we studied the rules relating to collisions between our friendly ships we could not make out what damage each of us should take. The rules (as printed from the Ares website) say on page 25 "Each ship takes a number of n damage tokens matching the total burden of all other ships overlapping it". After discussion we came to the conclusion that I would take the number of tokens equaling the burden of the ship I collided with and he would take my burden number of tokens. But then .... what does n mean???? We thought it might mean C? Can someone please look on their not printed off the website rules and tell me what their page 25 says please. :question:

I am thinking that maybe the rules on the website are deliberately faulty so that we are encouraged to buy more starter sets? There seems to be many instances where the letter n is used in them rather than the correct token letters.

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Originally Posted by Baxter

My group of four played our second game last night. I got absolutely hammered and my bad moves included an early collision with my team mate. When we studied the rules relating to collisions between our friendly ships we could not make out what damage each of us should take. The rules (as printed from the Ares website) say on page 25 "Each ship takes a number of n damage tokens matching the total burden of all other ships overlapping it". After discussion we came to the conclusion that I would take the number of tokens equaling the burden of the ship I collided with and he would take my burden number of tokens. But then .... what does n mean???? We thought it might mean C? Can someone please look on their not printed off the website rules and tell me what their page 25 says please. :question:

I am thinking that maybe the rules on the website are deliberately faulty so that we are encouraged to buy more starter sets? There seems to be many instances where the letter n is used in them rather than the correct token letters.

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It's supposed to be "B" tokens. Wow, that's harsh. We play that they just bump.

The downloaded version is heavily compressed so all the images have a ton of artifacts. The B token throughout is kinda messy.

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I always thought this rule was a bit aggressive and kinda out of place. They understandably only have it apply to friendly units so battles don't turn into ram fests, but at that point why worry about it at all. I think someone else mentioned that the risk of entanglement is enough of an incentive to avoid people.

I never got it either Alex. Two friendly ships would try to avoid a collision so we just give them an A damage on or above the difference in burden, so if a Sloop is hit by a three decker it is much worse than if it is hit by a Frigate for instance. The real problem as I see it is the fact that two enemy ships with intent are not damaged. we allow the same result for them as for any other ship.
Rob.