Rules and FAQs for Burning Suns
Current version of the Burning Suns rulebook: version 1.00
Rulebook can be downloaded here
In the sections below you can find all current FAQs for Burning Suns.
Rulebook can be downloaded here
In the sections below you can find all current FAQs for Burning Suns.
Setup
- (Q): Is it possible to play a 6, 7 or 8-player game?
- (A): If you get more figures/components for the game, then yes. I believe the downtime is a bit too long, which is why I haven't advertised the game as a 6-player game, but it's doable no doubt.
1: Status Phase
Antimatter
- (Q): Does an empire gain antimatter every turn from systems, items, agents etc.?
- (A): No, unless the source specifically says so, the antimatter is gained/lost as the empire gains/losses control of its source.
2: Reshuffling Phase
None
3: Planning Phase
- (Q): When selecting an action, may I place my leader on any of the available spots for that action?
- (A): You can choose any of the available spots, doesn't have to be in any given order. You might want to be reactionary on some actions and going first on others.
4: Action Phase
Assault
Timing
- (Q): Can I assault systems I already control?
- (A): No
- (Q): Does an assault continue after the first round?
- (A): Yes, just like in a battle, it'll continue until either you or your enemy's army is destroyed.
- (Q): Do the enemy shoot back?
- (A): No, a barrage is all or your fleet/army shooting 1 time at your enemy. There are no rounds or shooting back.
- (Q): Is the regiment you place on the system after the colonization free?
- (A): Yes, it's one you get for free (no matter the colonization cost).
- (Q): Can I construct in a system where there's an opposing enemy fleet?
- (A): Yes (only the Imperial ability, level 3 can deny this).
- (Q): Is the regiment you place on the system after the diplomacy free?
- (A): Yes.
- (Q): Can I jump back and forth between two systems to drop off or pick up units?
- (A): Yes.
- (Q): If my leader roll is successful and I choose another action with a leader roll, do I have to roll for success again?
- (A): Yes, and boosts aren't carried over to the next action.
Timing
- (Q): What if an action gives me antimatter to reach an abilities that would then be triggered as an "after action"-ability?
- (A): Antimatter is gained after the action has ended, so no "after action" can be triggered and utilized as a result of the action.
Abilities
Placing a new system (e.g. Deep Space Telescope)
- (Q): Can I choose the system myself?
- (A): Unless the ability says otherwise, you pick a random system (e.g. taken from the bottom of the 1-4 pile of systems).
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Powers
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Light power
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Neutral power
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Dark power
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Alliances
- (Q): Do I need my diplomacy distance to reach the player's home system or any of their systems?
- (A): Any system the player controls will suffice.
- (Q): If a diplomacy action is successful, are you forced to ally the player?
- (A): No. The alliances are still a negotiation between players.
Artifacts
Dark Energy Scanner
- (Q): Do I reshuffle the artifact pile after taking out the artifact(s)?
- (A): No
- (Q): If I deploy Dark Ships in a system with 2 or more fleets who do they fight?
- (A): The largest fleet first (when tie, the player using the card decides).
Dark Ships & Militia Regiments
Dark Ships
- (Q): Do Dark Ships get the strike bonus when starting a battle against my fleet when I jump in?
- (A): Yes.
Items
Upgrade: +1 to damage to target
- (Q): Can the opponent assign hits of +1 damage to single hitpoint units like regular units?
- (A): Yes. The opponent can assign hits as they see fit, however the hits coming from units with this update will deal 2 damage, so once the unique units are hit, they will go down fast.
Race cards
Insectoids - Infestation
Timing
- (Q): What happens if the opposing player wants to play a race card that affects their Titan (that you've just infested)?
- (A): For the rest of this action, the Titan is counted as yours, so they may play a card affecting an enemy Titan (not their own).
Timing
- (Q): What if both empires want to play a race card for an action.
- (A): In cases where more than one empire might be able to use a triggered ability, it’s always the empire who initiated the action that goes first (e.g. attacker) then the other empire (e.g. defender).
Systems
Hostile systems
Montford's Gambit
- (Q): Am I stuck with my choice of benefit when gaining control of a hostile system?
- (A): Yes. Until you loss and regain control of the system.
Montford's Gambit
- (Q): Can I use the ability on my own system, what happens when doing it on an enemy's system?
- (A): If using the ability on your own system, you just bolster your forces. If you use it on an enemy system, you also start an assault action.
Units
Colossus
- (Q): Can I move my colossus?
- (A): Yes, just like with your regiments, you can move your colossus between your own systems.
- (Q): Can a raider's reroll be used by other ships in your fleet?
- (A): Yes.
- (Q): Do regiments travel with the fleet?
- (A): No, regiments are handled separately from the fleet, as an army. The same jump limitations apply to armies, and they can only jump to (end up in) systems you control.
- (Q): Are regiments constructed when I assault a system?
- (A): No, regiments are deployed for free during assaults (1 per battlecruiser/2 per Titan).
- (Q): Can a starbase jump?
- (A): No (only the Nomadic ability level 2 can move its starbase, and some card abilities allow it).
- (Q) Can other empires use my Starbase to jump to and from wormholes?
- (A): No.
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