Mothership Shaltari Motherships can only deploy their Dropships via friendly Ships/Dropsites with the Gateship-X special rule (sometimes referred to as Gateships). These Gateships must be within 18” of the Mothership or part of a chain of Gateships with each Gateship in the chain being within 18” of another. Note: though the launch is measured from the Gateship, it is the Mothership that is launching.
Shield-X This Group has a Shield Save of X+. After Weapons have been assigned to this Group or Assets attack this Group, you may declare the use of Shield Saves for this Group. If you do, this Group replaces its Energy and Kinetic Saves with their Shield Saves for that attack sequence. Shield Saves can be used against Energy, Kinetic, and Core damage and ignore any modifiers to Energy and Kinetic Saves. Backup Saves may then be used after Shield Saves as normal.
A Group gains a single Spike each time it uses its Shield saves (regardless of the number of saves made per use).
Hits caused by Boarding Actions cannot be saved by Shield Saves.