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I'm using the ship construction rules from TLADIS (modified of so that each system is 0.9^TL instead of 0.95^TL). I am also playing without any fighter flights of any kind. It is going to be wierd, but in the long run, it should work out. Let me know how the TLADIS tech system works for you, and ho...

12) go to war against Tyrel and defend your ally's home world better than your own.. (Sean's B5 game) That was shear luck, and you wouldn't have lost Sol if we were using the normal movement rules. Your big fleet would have met my big fleet (instead of passing each other in the night) and you would...

Lately I have been playing with a modification to the NPE activations so that systems within 1 jump of a homeworld are at a -15% penalty, 2 jumps at -10% penalty, and 3 jumps at -5% penalty. This helps to curbe the appearance of empires on another's door step and give you a little bit of room to man...

I've never seen Space: 1999, but that was still funny

I want some happy pills!

I love the images you dug up for the ships. The Starfleet Museum site? Yeah, I have been stealing images from the Starfleet Museum and using them for the Coalition :) I am tempted to switch back to a hybrid Starmada X tech system now that I have found that, while my ship design spreadsheet worked g...

I think it would work fine. On the force list side, you might consider doing something like in one of my (failed) Terran Empire PBEM campaigns where each unit type is assigned a rarity level, and then each empire gets to selects X Common, Y Uncommon, Z Rare, etc. ship designs. So there would be a lo...

But how about merging shipyards? That does have merit, though I would tend to agree with Nimrodd that it should probably have the same construction capacity and dock spaces and just decrease construction times (at additional cost). I can see these being very handy if built in strategic ship constru...

I would base rarity on either hull size or equipment. In most cases, you are never going to have "Common" Dreadnoughts, so that ship class would probably be Rare. Also, certain technologies would be Uncommon, such as Scout or Jammer. Don't tell that to the Terran Federation in the Starfir...

Very interesting campaign so far. I'm curious how the different warp engines are going to work. I'm also going to follow your idea on the personnel points since I think it looks cool (How do you figure how many PPs a ship needs and what happens if you don't have enough). I have my ship design sprea...

1) Don't build any ships. 2) Explore with colony fleets loaded with Census. 3) Don't build any ground units. 4) Declare war on everyone. 5) Build Colony Fleets, load them with Census, and then scrap them. 6) Bombard your own planes with WMDs. 7) Perform Insurgency missions against your own systems....

Really cool. I like what you are doing with FTL travel to, though I bet it is a challenge to get it balanced. I thought it would be another interesting aspect of play to try out and see just how well it works out. As discussed in the document, we end up with: FTL (Warp): +2 Cost, +-1 Scenario Lengt...

...and Charlie became the first to be promoted to Commander. Congratulations! It will take me awhile to get to that post rank, unless I take Jay's recommendation and begin a countdown of the 100 Easiest Ways to Die in VBAM.

For those that have been waiting for a small tidbit about this campaign, I have posted a copy of the campaign diary and map up to the following address: http://www.epsiloneridani.com/TBG The address doesn't work with the url tags here in PHPBB because of the spaces, but you can just copy and paste t...

Ever since you added it to your previous campaign (there was one before this one, right? Or maybe it is the same campaign...) I have taken to using it. It does help to slow down the placement of large facilities, and require adequate time be taken to build up a nation's infrastructure.

"You are can have wallpaper?" I will see about getting it converted into a wallpaper and see what happens. The spine line may be an issue, but then I might be able to fix that, too -- the Persian astrolabe in the background isn't a solid object, so it would take some tweaking, but I will s...