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by PaulB
Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:14 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Steve Cole may be making major changes to the FASCAR system for Federation Admiral as well: "Yesterday I emailed the FedAdm combat system to the playtesters so they could start working on it. The first reports indicate that it is very luck dependent, with die rolls producing from 10 to 60 damag...
by PaulB
Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:30 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I was wrong about the Battleship costs. A Lyran Battleship for example costs 330 points in Federation Commander, and has a Strategic cost of 36. Compared to 10 cost for a 200 point Fed BC. For 36 strategic points, you could get 12 Federation Frigates totaling 936 points. Dunno how such simple math e...
by PaulB
Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:53 pm
Forum: Victory by Any Means - Second Edition
Topic: VBAM Second Edition Errata
Replies: 43
Views: 20447

Re: VBAM Second Edition Errata

Not errata per se, but one thing I might recommend is not numbering the cover page for the PDF version of the rulebook. They do this for Battletech, the front and rear cover I believe are both assigned letters like A, B or something like that instead of 1,2 etcetera. The benefit of this is when you ...
by PaulB
Thu Jul 21, 2016 3:50 am
Forum: Victory by Any Means - Second Edition
Topic: Raid Chance
Replies: 3
Views: 6945

Raid Chance

Is there an easier way to determine raid chance? Everything seems fairly simple except for the -1% per 10 CP of military ships. Construction Points are something not found on the ship rosters, but only in the construction system. You can add up all of the DV/AS/AF/CR/Special Abilities values but tha...
by PaulB
Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:28 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Well they've got nothing left to release. They're unwilling to do new ship cards since Reinforcements Attack and Booster#92 bombed. They've done a tactics manual. They've done a scenario compilation book. Released playtest packs for Omega and LMC Re-released re-packaged PDF ship cards for many of th...
by PaulB
Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:28 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Oh but it's not just "in development", last word I heard is that he's planning for an end-of-July release. And by developing the game, what Steve means is copying numbers from one game (Federation & Empire) to another. One guy was happy to see that the FRAX were on the list, and in rep...
by PaulB
Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:18 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

I looked at this updated Federation Admiral ship chart some more: A Gorn Heavy Dreadnought, is 246 points and has a strategic cost of 20! Compare this again to a Federation Battlecruiser, which is 200 points in FedCom costing 10 points strategic So to get a 151 point CC, I pay 9 points. To get a 200...
by PaulB
Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:13 am
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Oh really? I would have thought the objective system preceeded chapter 8. Then again maybe they're not editing them in order. Incidentally, looked some more at the ship stats and noticed some other oddities. If one looks at Federation Commander, a Battle Frigate is 94 points a Destroyer is also 94 p...
by PaulB
Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:21 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Aside from the ship stats, is there any public information on what else is being changed about the system? How does the VP system compare to WAP? Is economy, intel, exploration, etcetera are all much the same or have they been likewise stripped down or substituted out for something else? Maybe will ...
by PaulB
Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:57 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds
Topic: Federation Admiral Public Update
Replies: 428
Views: 177476

Re: Federation Admiral Public Update

Yeah. So looking at the SFB forums Steve posted an updated ship list: http://www.starfleetgames.com/discus/messages/12033/fedadm_ship_chart_13j.pdf Which differs significantly from Jay's original stats: http://www.starfleetgames.com/discus/messages/12033/chapter_8_text.pdf Some things worth noting: ...
by PaulB
Sun Jul 17, 2016 6:55 pm
Forum: War Room
Topic: The Four Year's War: Prelude
Replies: 6
Views: 5289

Re: The Four Year's War: Prelude

MOAR Klingons!
Look forward to hearing about this!
by PaulB
Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:07 am
Forum: Hotlabs
Topic: House Rule - Exploration Variant
Replies: 6
Views: 4673

Re: House Rule - Exploration Variant

I thought of having a similar rule for my exploration campaign but didn't see a good way to resolve it. Could just be that you don't create the system until the ships return but, then for example if there's a battle and your ships are destroyed they couldn't really return so how do you model that? Y...
by PaulB
Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:05 am
Forum: War Room
Topic: First Solo Campaign
Replies: 8
Views: 5694

Re: First Solo Campaign

Ooops. Yeah I'm still figuring out the rules. Didn't know that I could just simply buy productivity, seemed to make sense to me that you'd need a transport chain to build the initial infrastructure. Yeah I'm still absorbing the rules too. Played a bit in the past but never delved too deeply into the...
by PaulB
Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:43 pm
Forum: Hotlabs
Topic: Your Wishlist for Companion and First Contact?
Replies: 62
Views: 37588

Re: Your Wishlist for Companion and First Contact?

Yeah War Hull sounds like a good trait also, having no crippled state, just Destroyed. That would be good in representing such ships at the Andromedans from SFB or the Shadows from Babylon 5. They can take a lot of punishment but once you get through that layer of defence they just disintegrate. I t...
by PaulB
Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:51 pm
Forum: Hotlabs
Topic: Your Wishlist for Companion and First Contact?
Replies: 62
Views: 37588

Re: Your Wishlist for Companion and First Contact?

What about Auxiliary Fleets? A Colony, Trade or Transport fleet can be refitted into an Auxiliary fleet at a cost of 3 EP, requiring a slipway. The Fleet has a maintenance of 1/1, retains its DV 10 and CC 1 and has 9 CP to spend on additional equipment. While converted the fleet can not perform its ...