Unit, Mechanized Unit

THE MECHANISED UNIT 

Units available: 8

Cost: 2

Combat value: 6(x2)

Production Capacity required: 2 (reduced to 1 if both Duranium Armor and Integrated Economy are researched)

Ground Unit

Occupying Force

Sustain Damage 

Vulnerable to Bombardment

Mechanised units (MUs) provide added firepower for invasion combats.

They can be used for defence, but their vulnerability to bombardment makes MUs more useful for offensive operations.

Mechanised Units are used mostly in a similar fashion to Ground Forces. There are differences, however:

• Mechanised Units roll 2 dice in Invasion Combat and have the Sustain Damage ability. If a Mechanised Unit takes a hit, turn it on its side to indicate it is damaged. Taking a second hit destroys the unit. When damaged, MUs roll only 1 die in combats.

• MUs cannot be transported on Cruisers or Dreadnoughts with the Stasis Capsules Technology, nor can they make use of Transit Diodes.

• MUs may not make use of and are immune to Technology Advances, Action Cards or any other abilities or effects that specifically refer to Ground Forces.

BOMBARDMENT VULNERABILITY
When a planet containing one or more Mechanised Units is bombarded, bombardment hits must first be applied to MUs. They may not use the Sustain Damage ability for bombardment hits, and are immediately destroyed after each hit. They do not receive return fire and do not participate in the possible ensuing Invasion Combat.

This vulnerability does not apply if a PDS is present, and Magen Defense Grid and Duranium Armor have both been researched.

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES FOR MECHANISED UNITS

Nanotech Replicators

Duranium Armor

Magen Defense Grid

Integrated Economy