This is a good point.  And you could write down the speed of a ship when you move it instead of using a marker.  Either would work.  Once again, one of the many Great things about Starmada is that it can be readily customized by the players.  They can deal with some of the details of the mechanics of the game in a way that works for them.   8-)

These extra dice that are added to the attack dice are reguardless of the strenght of the firing weapon?  So if a BB that rolls 11 dice fires on a ship with "two ticks" it gets 11+4=15 dice.  What about a weaker weapon that fires at long range and would only roll one dice.  Does it get this: 1+4=5 dice?  That seems like it would be too powerful or unbalanced. :shock:

This is great.  Math teacher here. :geek:   I completely understand the numbers and how they are done.  Kewl!
One use of the secondary/AA battery is to shoot at fighters, strikers, seekers, etc.  This Valiant could shoot down up to five of them in the SAE version.  How will this work in the Starmada 2012 version?  How would AA be handled?
BTW, I presume (prc) means piercing.  How would that work in the new game?

This looks good. 
Will there be a Ship Designer Program that will make allow ship sesigning and print out SSDs, for this New Starmada 2012 version?

Here is an idea:  Change the name of "Fire Control"  to "Advanced Fire Control",  Since all ships have fire control, the advanced version of this should have a different name. :idea:

I am curious, how would lettting antifighter batteries fire before fighters/strikers/ or seakers attack cause significant problems?  As they work now, firing after these units attack AFBs are simply not worth their cost IMHO.

This sounds great.  I  definitely LIKE the idea of less dice rolls.   I enjoy Starmada A.E., but look forward to the Starmada 2012 edition.  My friends & I down south play whenever I am visiting down there. 
I would love to be a playtester of this new edition.  :ugeek:

The ships I play resemble WW2 warships; (there is a posting in the B.Basin).  In one game I played with my Dad & nephew and Gaming Glenn, an accidently brilliant manuever gave victory to my side.  The other size played Klingon style ships with forward-firing moved forward. At the end of movement, my battleline ended up being behind their ships with them in the "C" arc of my ships.  I was able to fire all of my ships' weapons at them at close range and all of their heavy weapons were out of arc.  They took a pounding.  I would love to say I planned this, but I was more lucky than clever...

The sailing frigates of the late 1700s and early 1800s were the cruisers of their day.  The USA's frigate USS Constitution was, in many ways, a battlecruiser.  with its heavier guns, 24 pounders vs the 18 pounders of other nations and having 44 guns instead of c34 guns, it had much heavier firepower.  The hull made of Live Oak trees from Georgia's coastal islands was tough and the ship was larger than the European frigates.  The British admiralLord Nelson predicted that these huge American frigates would be a formitable foe.  In the War of 1812 they were just that.  Although eventually blockaded in US ports by 1814, they were the battlecruisers of the 1800s.  8-)

I have large battleships and small destroyers.  Here is my "standard" battleship design:

USS Arizona
Hull: 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1           
Engines: 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1           
Shields: 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1           
Weapons: 1:X 2:X 3:Y 4:Y 5: 6:

X: "14 Inch Gauss Rifles"  6/12/18, 1/3+/1/4
Piercing +2; Starship-exclusive
[ABCD][ABCD][CDEF][CDEF]

Y: "5 Inch Laser Cannon"  6/12/18, 1/3+/1/1
[ABCD][HIJK][HIJK][CDEF]

Special: Hyperdrive; Armor Plating; Fire Control; Marines (4); Teleporters (4); Cargo (84)

(The the DDs I play are hull 4, shields 1, speed 5 with four of the "5 inch Laser Cannons" in two FX and two AX mount).

The map we use is fifty hexes long, and c30 wide.  It is a felt map from GeoHex.  our ships are all Tech zero so the speed of the larger ships is 3, 4 , or 5.  We us max range of 18 on weapons.  We don't use seekers or strikers because we think they are too powerful.  This is my fault for designing brutal ones I called them Ionic Torpedoes) that were speed 15, bomber,  halved shields, 3+ to hit, three damage and had continuing damage.  They were a bit costly, but too often gave my side victory.  We do allow, and sometimes use fighters.
Our first and second turns are manuevering and getting into range.  Usually we get into long range turn three and the firing begins.  The game then last from three to five turns.  We play sides and each player gets 2,000 points.  We played two games with four people on Monday.  Each game took c2 hours.  Lots of fun! 
(We are playing Friday, at Gaming Glenn's store in Davie, Fla.)