Fleet Ambush

If a ship must be deployed into the Ambush Zone and cannot fit without overlapping obstacles or extending beyond the Ambush Zone, the player must deploy that ship so that the ship fits as completely into the Ambush Zone as possible.

This objective is not recommended for Task Force play.

After a player has placed all of their ships they begin placing squadrons on their next deployment turn. The other player continues placing ships until all of their ships have been placed, then they begin placing squadrons.

The first player can deploy squadrons within distance 1–2 of a ship inside the ambush zone.

The standard obstacles are used during setup, which are 3 asteroid fields, 2 debris fields, and 1 station.
During setup, within the setup area, mark the corners of the ambush zone with objective tokens. Which are placed at the corners of the ambush zone which is beyond distance 5 of any edge of the setup area.
During deployment BOTH players must deploy all ships before deploying any squadrons. Once a player has placed all of their ships, is when they can start placing squadrons, if a player has ships remaining, they must continue to place ships.

The first player MUST deploy ships during odd numbered deployments WITHIN the ambush zone, and cannot deploy ships or squadrons overlapping obstacles within the ambush zone. Squadrons deployed by the first player ranged distance 1-2 from a ship within the ambush zone, must also be placed within the ambush zone.

After setup, remove the objective tokens from the play area.

If the first player cannot deploy a chosen ship (including a huge ship such as the SSD) on their odd numbered deployment within the ambush zone, due to overlapping other ships or obstacles, the player must deploy that ship so that it fits as much as possible in the ambush zone, without overlapping obstacles, even if part of the ship ends up outside the ambush zone.

Corvus can only redeploy into that players deployment zone, it cannot redeploy into the ambush zone.

Since objective tokens are removed “after setup”, if the squadron Moralo Eval is at distance 1 of an objective token when it is removed, it will resolve Evals card effect.