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- Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:26 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Q-Ships
- Replies: 25
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Q-Ships
Can someone explain the Q-Ship trait from the VBAM: CC for me? It is very odd as written, seemingly lowering the CC of the vessels while it is a civilian fleets escort, but not reducing the chances of raiding. Am I missing something? CC doesn't seem very relevant (as convoy escorts more often act as...
- Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:28 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Space Combat and Reserves
- Replies: 4
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- Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:54 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Space Combat and Reserves
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3013
Space Combat and Reserves
I've just finished playing through a combat for a (Star Trek) pbem game I'm running and something odd came up, The Federation player has recently had problems with systems rebelling after pirate raids, and was in the process of retaking one of them. He had built up a pair of fleets, one with three s...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:48 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Possible New Intel Missions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3916
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:39 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Possible New Intel Missions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3916
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:09 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Possible New Intel Missions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3916
I'll poke about with some rewrites and general tightening up of the rules, Another complaint I've seen a lot both with my players and here on the forums is that it's too difficult to project Intel ops outside of your Empire because of the census restriction and distance clauses. I like these clauses...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:55 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Two Newbie Questions on Combat
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4790
1) It's assumed that the flag squadron is protected by the rest of the fleet - and perhaps some distance away from the primary action - and this is why it gets +1 formation bonus as well as the halved AS penalty. I believe an errata was that the flag squadron lost this bonus and penalty in fleets wi...
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:57 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Newbie Intel Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3369
- Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:38 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Newbie Intel Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3369
That's a hard cap on spending for military Intel and Intel operations per system (so census 5, max of 5IP spent per turn in total on anything other than defence), It's covered in the FAQ (along with a thorough walk-through of the Intel rules) - the rules are as you say pretty vague (FASB edition loo...
- Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:54 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Possible New Intel Missions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3916
Possible New Intel Missions
A couple of ideas for new Intel Missions. They're the sort of thing that only help in a game with a lot of secrecy - and may never be needed if players generally get on. Espionage: Empire (Difficulty 1) Gather basic information about an Empire: The Systems (no info on the systems, just their names) ...
- Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:35 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Newbie Intel Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3369
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:30 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Population Growth
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6960
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:17 am
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Population Growth
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6960
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:29 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Population Growth
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6960
Your system makes sense over all, Gareth, and I have run If anything it is probably geometric and not a linear representation. I try not to consider it to represent a hard 'count' of people but a general indicator of contribution from the population involved towards the capacity/productivity. Hmmm,...
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:33 pm
- Forum: Officer's Lounge
- Topic: Population Growth
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6960
True, You could flip it around easily enough and place the census on low census planets first though, My assumption was that after the initial influx of residents (represented by the colony fleet arriving and depositing what is after all a lot of colonists - one census is equivelent to one twelth of...