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Working on Colonial Battlefleet and Task Force Zeta conversions at the moment. Played with Starmada, used the conversion tools, but it did slow things down some. The latest version of VBAM looks somewhat faster, I am just finishing my Ship Generator / Calculator for the new rules before I start maki...

No sign of a release yet? ... (21:00 GMT)

Good news

Will it be available through DriveThru ? ... I have all your other rulesbooks from that site.

Really my only question is when can I hand over some cash and get a PDF ?

A date for that moment would be worth knowing

Well it has been four years since I last played with VBAM, I am currently using Colonial Battlefleet as my Spaceship combat system of choice and I was pleased to see mention of VBAM over on their message board as a possible campaign system and that playtesters might be needed. Given that I wondered ...

Is there any chance of seeing some of the playtest rules .. would be very interested

It has been 2-3 years since I last checked ...

How is Second edition coming along? ... are we likely to have anything in the next few months while I am in my "Space Combat" phase ?

One of the ideas that drew me towards VBAM in the first place was the ability to 'plugin' a tactical system of my own choice. All I would need to do would be assign corresponding EP costs and construction costs and I would be almost good to go. However .. Over time the CSCR abilities have grown sign...

Did it work in the end or not?

Thanks Charles, there should be a small circular X in the top right (as seen in the picture above) ... is it not there ?

Latest Version uploaded ... http://vbam.spellbound.co.uk/2eshipgen/2eshipgen.html?scale=20&cc=5&tl=3&dv=2&as=3&pd=3&cr=3&arm=4&name=Dread As you can see I am almost done working on the saving and loading mechanism. URL attributes for all the various pieces of technolo...

Worse .. its a spelling mistake ... I have it as #topboxdf ... should be #topboxdv!

Thanks

@ BLHarrison : I have now added all the items in the current PDF that had MU cost @ Tyrel Lohr: I added the MU colour change when over the limit and moved the small indicator higher. I also adjusted Maintenance to be on MU used, rather than construction cost. Is it round down, round up or round near...

OK .. here is a beta version to play with. It lacks the ability to "save" the ship design and doesn't yet handle maintenance numbers below 1. http://vbam.spellbound.co.uk/2eshipgen/2eshipgen.html?scale=20 First off the only working parameter so far is &scale= which will set the slider ...

Here is a teaser of the almost finished Ship Generator.



All the hard work is done, just working on the interface and the ability to save ships