Editing Dropfleet Commander/Tactics/PHR (section)

==Special Abilities==
Calibre (X): Many PHR ships have their standard guns fall into light, medium, or heavy calibre categories. If you target a ship of a tonnage that corresponds to the calibre, your lock value is reduced by 1. Additionally, calibre(H&S) guns only need to roll 1 higher on their lock to get a critical hit, as opposed to the standard 2 higher.

Launch assets: PHR have the only bombers with a 2+ lock, although they have 3" less range than Scourge or Shaltari bombers. Their fighters are second best compared to Shaltari, giving equal PD but having 4" less range.

Assault troopships: While UCM/Scourge troopships are based off their standard cruisers and lacking in weaponry (while Shaltari are their own thing), PHR troopships are the equivalent of their heavy cruisers for the most part, and come equipped with weaponry equal to a standard cruiser. You'll likely see multiple of these in a list due to how good they are.

Overcharge (OC): PHR Dreadnoughts are fitted with a super advanced power management system which lets you divert power to an OC weapon system (or a series of linked OC weapon systems) to overcharge it. If you elect to do this then the ship needs to use the Weapons Free order and the nominated weapon system has its Damage attribute doubled, but you can't fire anything else this turn with the exception of Close Action weapons or Launch assets.

Design ethos: PHR ships are the toughest in the game, with the best armor and more HP than the other races, and Scan stats second only to the Shaltari. In addition, while the PHR Close Action weapons are generally little more than an afterthought, a single PHR ship will often (barring a few exceptions) have DOUBLE the primary weapon firepower of ships of the same class for the other races - this is usually mitigated by the broadside layout, making it impossible to bring all of that firepower to bear against a single target. This means that they benefit greatly from claiming the center of the map in bold 'spearhead' style tactics, and liberal use of the Weapons Free order to get the most out of those powerful broadsides.