Is anyone else seeing scenarios here? I've got at least 3:

1. Attack/Defend the station
2. Attack a station being towed into position (convoy escort, fun!)
3. Prevent the station(s) from being hit by asteroids

I guess the most important role a station can play is as an objective.

Dugan, do you have any plans for a set of generic bits? I was thinking of a station, weapons platform, jumpgate and striker/seeker (torpedo/missile?) counters that could be used for all the factions?

Here is a screenshot of the end of Combat for Turn 1. Although you can't really make it out (need a better way of screenshotting from Vassal), my Battlecruisers have just opened fire on MadSeason's frigate, inflicting a rather large amount of damage.

Note the additional trail where I moved a ship by accident - I pressed "undo" but the move was still recorded for some reason.....

Which is very VERY nice, if you've not seen it yet you ought to - check it out here

I've been working towards using Starmada to simulate the Homeworld computer games. While I've figured out the combat classes, some of the special ship abilities are missing. It might be helpful to have:

- Defense field (ability wrap shields around 1 or more targets)
- Gravwell generator (area effect that prevents fighter movement)
- Cloak generator (cloaks all ships within a certain radius, but they must decloak to fire)
- Repair beam (combination of regen and damage control (must be used from 1 hex range?))
- Cloaked fighters
- A way to simulate Defense Fighters (area effect point defence for ship to ship munitions)
- A networked fire control/C&C system (gives fire control benefit to allied ships - area of effect?)
- Repulsor wave (acts like inverted blackhole for 1 turn? Pushes close targets away. more effective against fighters than ships. Used in combination with min-range weapons)
- Hyperspace inhibitor (stop those pesky damaged ships from escaping! Would make for interesting "destroy the target and (try to) escape missions)

(- Infection beam - Destroy or Capture an entire fighter flight at once!)

When I was converting the Brigade ships to AE, one noticeably absent system (or one to replace it) was the shockwave. On paper it sounded useful, but I've never used one in a game.

Nice artwork there! I'm really beginning to look forward to the new version of the module. Any chance of seeing updated versions of the Green and Orange fleets from V2.0?

I was bored the other day and so I sat down with the ADED rulebook and VASSAL with starmada 2.0. I set up a 1000pt battle between the ships given in the stuff.zip file.

I think that the "stuff" ships fall nicely into 2 fleets, and so I set up one side (orange) with 3 Anval class frigates, 1 Dagen class carrier and fighters, and one Wraak class Battlecruiser, and the other (Green) with 1 Conqueror class Battleship, 1 Victory Class Heavy Cruiser and 1 Orion class carrier and fighters.

It worked out as a good battle, although the Anvals were just about useless (engaging the Conqueror which blew up one and left another to float off the map with no engines) and the Wraak proving awesome (once in range it's heavy missiles decimated the Victory, scoring over 30 points of damage in 2 turns!). Overall the Green side won, despite the Wraak putting up a good fight.

I saved the setup, and posted it over at the yahoo group (Files > Vassal Online > VASSAL scenarios ). I'd be interested to see if anyone else has the same outcome.

I've had a lot of success (for a complete novice) with casting my scratchbuilt homeworld ships in resin. I stocked up on silicone and PE resin from here:

http://www.tomps.com/

I found a good couple of tutorials online, and then went ahead and had a go. Its a real learning experience, but very worthwhile when you pull a copy of something you've just made. The most important things to remember are to think about your mold design, and not to forget the mold release!

I can post some pictures if anyone is interested?

The best counter to strikers and seekers is friendly fighters - either actively hunt down the incoming missiles, or station your fighters defensively around your fleet and use option F.8 - Combat Interception (Imperial Starmada Sourcebook)

Looking good. Is that window visible to all players, or just the owner? We'll have to decide on a method of indicating damage to weapons engines etc.

Thats a pretty cool idea. How about fuel? Each flight could move, say, 50 hexes before running out of fuel. They'd have to refuel to stay in the fight (if they were still around by that time). Flights that have run dry would either be stuck in place, or have to move 2 or 3 hexes a turn towards a tanker. They'd also lose the -1 modifier to hit them, as slow moving targets are more vulnerable/can't dodge.

This would work really well for simulating Kadeshi swarmers - only give them 20 or 30 hexes worth of fuel before they have to run to the fuel pods.

It might add to the book-keeping a little though - unless you kept another marker on the fighter base, perhaps.