[Slick]

I'll take a shot at a few of them.

However, once in combat, will all the non-QR ships START with full supplies or will they have zero supplies?

Ships have their supplies topped off at the end of each turn if they are in a fleet with a QR. During that turn, supplies are consumed normally by movement. If combat occurs at any point in the middle of the turn, ships will begin combat with whatever their supply level is at.

This seems to suggest that your own ship which is doing the boarding has to have its shields down before its troops can leave the ship to board a target. Is this right? (I understand that the target ship must have its shields taken down.)

It is suggesting that you make your boarding ships use armor instead of shields so that they are protected after boarding by the remaining armor. If they had shields, the shields would drop to zero just prior to boarding and remain down for the remainder of combat, unless you had some shield regenerators.

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10.1.3 Stolen tech reports (via intel ops) don’t show up under the race:tech tab. Only what is seen in combat shows under race:tech. Since you don’t officially “know” about stuff until it is listed in race:tech, this makes it impossible to target intelligence ops to get them until after combat. bug reported to MM.
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Simply not clear to me. Anyone else want to reword this?

There is an intel project called "Tech Reports" which gives info about the enemy tech levels. Results of a successful attack are shown in the Log but are not added to your in-game "knowledge" of the enemy under the Race/tech screen (obtained by clicking Empires (alien head or F9) then right-clicking on an empire, then the "tech" tab. Since this new information is not officially "known" by the game engine, the tech cannot be specifically targeted by another intelligence project called "Technological Espionage" which steals technology. You still may get lucky if you target "any" technology.

If I get more time later, I might take a swing at some more.

Slick.