Starship combat - large crews


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So my group consist of six players, and there are only five roles available in a starship

I can see that for Engineers, Science Officers and gunners (depending on weapon mounts) you can have more than one person, my question is do they get to act in the same round?

So if I had two engineers, would they both get a go or would only one have a go and they other be able to aid them somehow?


From the Engineers Action (pg 323), "Unless otherwise noted, each action can be performed only once per round, no matter how many engineers are on a starship."

That, to me clearly indicates that each PC filling the engineer role gets an action, during the Engineering Phase. Especially when you read the part in Patch that states, "Multiple engineers can pool their actions in a single round..."

Next, the Gunner Actions (pg 324) says, "Though each of the starship's weapons can be fired only once per round, multiple gunners can take actions to fire different weapons in a single round." And if you look at the actions, until 6th level you can only fire a single starship weapon per round without incurring an attack penalty.

The Science Officer Actions is the only one of those three that doesn't specifically call out multiple science officers.

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