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I can't find in the Campaign Guide what happens to a Supply ship when it is crippled. Does it lose it's ability to supply or is it halved or what?

Since I could not find anything either, I would go with halved. Both extremes (full abilities or loosing everything) make less sense.

According to 3.6.3.12 (Ships fire) "Combat Factors" are halved when crippled (AS and AF are noted specifically),

According to 1.5 (the glossary) "Combat Factors" are:

When referring to ships and flights, combat factors are the Anti-Ship (AS) value, Anti-Fighter (AF) value, basing capacity, scout functions, supply rating, and towing functions, but it most notably does not include the Defense Value (DV).

It doesn't mention CR, but I would be tempted to include it as well,

My reading coincides with Gareth's and I also feel CR was mistakenly omitted from the list.

I missed seeing that in the Glossary, since I don't consider Supply to be a Combat Factor (it's not used to modify anything during combat), so I didn't look up there.

As far as CR is concerned, I think it is left out of the Combat Factors modified by Crippling, because it would cause a lot of problems during combats if the Fleet Flagship (CR 12) controlling 12 other squadrons got damaged, well, there goes half of your fleet, as it can no longer control 6 of the squadrons. It was probably left out of that for simplification.

Perhaps, but it does make perfect sense to me that crippling your command ship (or even a squadron command vessel) will cause havoc with your fleet,

You can always reassign the command ship after all, and there should be a serious benefit to attacking something that hard to hit (fleet command vessels have at least two levels of formation bonus),

That said, I agree that it's simpler to omit it,

nimrodd wrote:As far as CR is concerned, I think it is left out of the Combat Factors modified by Crippling, because it would cause a lot of problems during combats if the Fleet Flagship (CR 12) controlling 12 other squadrons got damaged, well, there goes half of your fleet, as it can no longer control 6 of the squadrons. It was probably left out of that for simplification.

Sure, I agree it would be simpler, but sinking the command ship causes the same problems and is certainly not left out.

Hi everyone,

Yeah, you guys are pretty spot on. While it is also a combat factor, CC is the only thing that does not reduce when crippled (wouldn't that be convenient).

-Jay