Not quite true.  Non-integer BAS can be used to slightly manipulate the way damage falls off with penalties, because of how rounding works.

My brother did something similar to this in AE with hull 1s, no defenses, and a G-arc shortish-range repeater.  They lost a close game against a fleet carrier and some escorts; fighters made them sad, as did marines and teleporters, but they managed to down all of the escorts and did a number on the carrier (this was back when we played to last unit standing rather than VP).

Don't know if y'all have ever played Stargrunt, but my god, their ECM rules were painful.  We actually got up to ECCCCCCM (that's right, electronic counter-counter-counter-counter-counter-countermeasures) once during play.  Resolving that was ugly...

You know, you could go all the way and make it basically Fire Control, but for that one weapon.
And I wholeheartedly support keeping 'hard counter' traits like Ignores and Exclusive out (though I will miss my range 1 Area Effect Fighter-Exclusive warp fields...  some sacrifices are necessary for the good of all ).

Dunno...  that seems a bit odd, too.  I think deriving significant advantage from the minor carronade discount will be tricky, as using it on longish range weapons requires a high thrust to generate the savings, which nullifies the SU savings and is not terribly useful on its own (since Evasive penalizes your own shooting, and I keep hearing claims that having tons of engines is significantly less useful under Newtonian that it was for us under Naval).  I only managed to generate ~20 points of ORAT savings arming a thrust 6 hull 9 with 9-Carronades vs 6s, and it saved me one point of CRAT.  On a 114 vs 115 point ship, I was getting <1% yield, so...  not sure if I'm concerned or not.  I'll see if I can produce a really pathological case.

6 points of savings on a TL2 hull 9 engines 12, 12 vs 18 carronade.

Well, took a TL2 hull 1000 vessel, thrust 6, no defenses, and filled up the AA arc with guns.  Carronade version could fit 9757 guns, un-carronade could fit 9074, so about a 10% increase in firepower.  Difference in CRATs was only 220 points, which was less than 2% of the CRATs (21736 for carronade, 21516 for un-carronade).

So, uh...  noticed a little weirdness with some weapon pricing.

Consider a thrust 6 vessel.  It can mount a range 6 weapon, or a range 9 carronade.  The carronade is superior, since it has a longer short range and can fire without penalty out to 6, so, all else being equal, it should be more expensive.  However, according to both the drydock and my own spreadsheet, the carronade is actually less expensive, both in terms of SU and ORAT.  This is not true of higher ranges at thrust 6, but at thrust 12, the same is true of range 12 vs range 18 carronade.

Good solution!  Now we just need pricing .

Well, had a Traveller group...  we got rich and retired, so back to D&D for a bit.

And yeah, that was the conclusion we came to.  Good for like "OK, giant capital ships are fighting.  Your free trader is not going to make a difference...  but to keep things fun, let's zoom out to Starmada mode."  We never really looked at it in too much depth; it was more "Arrgh, don't want to use High Guard capital ship combat rules.  Hmmm...  Starmada might work."  Character impact didn't come up terribly, but things like high Gunnery allowing rerolls for firing or high Engineering allowing damage control rerolls could serve well.  I think somebody did AE conversions of Traveller vessels a while back, but I can't find 'em in the Basin...

Certainly; cloak in AE was ridiculously hard to keep track of.  The solution I had in mind (which I think someone proposed here at one point, but I can't find it...) was that upon cloaking, you replace the ship with three copies, each of which tracks movement and thrust separately, though they all move on the same activation.  While cloaked, none can fire, and they cannot be fired on.  Only one is the actual location of the ship; the copy number of written down separately when cloaking is activated.  When de-cloaking, reveal the number of the 'real' copy and remove the other two copies.  Resolving mine / asteroid damage would be tricky, though.

Looks like.  I almost feel like it simulates crew experience better - it's hard to field a large fleet with completely veteran crews, but at the same time, they're less likely to break ranks until things have really hit the fan.  Likewise, it's easy to field a large fleet of conscripts, but they're likely to panic or rout relatively early.

The drydock seems to indicate that this does not apply to additions from Carrier and similar; just want to verify that this is correct.