Quantum - Tips & Strategies

The polar ships in Quantum are a little more complicated to use than the moderate-valued ships. The Scout (6-value ship) is the easier of the two to get the hang of (use your 6 movement points, and once you hit your destination use the Scout‘s free ability to roll it and hopefully transform it into a more defensible ship). But using the Battlestation (1-value ship) takes a little practice.

While the Battleship exists only to destroy your opponent’s ships, it’s nearly impossible to use it for this purpose on its own because the 1 movement point it gets each turn makes it incredibly easy for an opponent to avoid. If you’re planning an attack strategy and can field a Battlestation with a 3-value Destroyer you can make yourself mobile and deadly.

By moving the 3-value Destroyer toward your intended target then using its Warp special ability to switch places with your Battlestation, you will still have 2 actions remaining and still have access to your Battlestation‘s Strike special ability. This can allow you to cover 2 more spaces (1 for movement of the Battlestation (which hasn’t used its own move action yet) and 1 for the free special ability) to reach your opponent and engage them in combat. All-told, you will be using 2 of your 3 actions and the special abilities of 2 different ships to give yourself the closest thing to a likely win dice-based combat allows. All by managing to move your incredibly slow Battleship a whopping 5 spaces with an action to spare.

There is no downside of attacking – if you lose, you just go back to where you were. If you win, you get a +1 increase in Dominance, and the defender goes down 1 in dominance – 6 of these get you the ability to place 1 cube for free, anywhere you want. Totally awesome.