Sentences with phrase «commanding fleets of ships»
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When you look at just our fleet alone, 40 % of our capital ships are serving in direct support of geographic combatant commanders — Pacific Command, Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Southern Command, and Northern Command.
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Starship Defence is an action game where players command a large space ship and must defend against a fleet of attacking ships.
To enter warp you exhaust a command token and then take a ship or fleet and put it to the side of their current location, signifying it has entered warp.
As you unlock new tech for your ships through research you can use the ship design panel to create new templates that make use of improved weapons, armor and power supplies, and existing fleets can be commanded to return to a starport for an overhaul.
The point is by using up a command token you can take individual ships and form them into a fleet by adding them to one of your faction's three unique fleet cards and then plopping one of the much larger ship miniatures on the table.
You can increase this by spending more commands to add extra warp tokens, but ships and fleets in warp will automatically generate one new token at the end of your turn, and various bits of researched technology can radically improve warp speed so that it's possible to stick a ship or fleet into warp and gain multiple tokens, allowing it to hurtle across the table.
For the first time, players will be able to command real - time 3D naval sea battles with individual ships and large fleets of 18th century galleons.
Earn your way to the top of a player - run corporation by collecting resources and trading frugally, or command your own fleet of ships after proving yourself a loyal and skilled soldier — it is up to you.