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Also, when using pen-and-paper, it probably makes sense to have all fleets tracked on their own pieces of paper I've used index cards as fleet/formation cards in Starfire and VBAM. Basically laid out as follows: Formation Name Flagship (can add command limits here for VBAM) Other ships Orders Locat...

I know when I got started VBAM that the encounter resolution system was/is confusing to me. Some examples of different situations and how they lead to the different encounter types would be great (unless you are re-doing this part of the system). Having an extended example of a few campaign turns ma...

I'm starting to think that you can only have one scenario of each type in a system per turn, in order. The interception/breakout scenarios (the two at the top) are special cases where the one side has use of only half their forces (the interceptors and the blockaders). In the interception scenario, ...

There's a text file on the VBAM Yahoo! group that you may find helpful - it's essentially a flow-chart, but is laid out in text (so not perfect, but much easier to refer to), I just found that. Downloaded a bunch of files from there actually. It is handy for determining what sort of scenario to pla...

I would argue that another defensive scenario could also be generated (you are still in step four right)? Maybe. After more reading of the encounter/scenario rules I see I'd missed something. The side with the higher AS value gets the first right to demand a scenario. So in the example I am working...

I'm still not sure how to handle the situation if the scenario ends and nether side wants to retreat. I guess I'd roll up another Defensive Scenario. I'd roll up another Defensive scenario. Cheers, I went back to the rulebook to look through this more and it never really states what happens at the ...

If A has no other defensive assets then he may be better off accepting the deep-space scenario so as to avoid B getting a big surprise modifier! Plus the deep space scenario should be shorter, so A can revise their plans after the deep space battle in accordance to the results, I realized this afte...

Player B will accept the defensive scenario to force the fight. It doesn't matter really since there are no other defensive forces outside the ships. The only differences would be for attacker readiness (nothing worse than normal) and scenario length (longer). I'm still not sure how to handle the si...

I am playing a sample game (Scenario 1) to learn the rules to basic VBAM. At the start of the current turn the two sides (A,B) were at Normal relations and had ships co-existing in one powers system (A). During the Intel phase of the current turn the visiting power (B) in the above system Declared H...

I just recently bought the VBAM special (Campaign Guide, Companion, two source books plus the Menagerie). I have just started a practice solo game to test drive the rules. I am only using the rules from the Campaign Guide. The Companion is filled with optional rules to plug and play into the base VB...