Hello to all Starmada players in Orlando,
Let me know when y'all play again.  I have friends that live there and if the gaming is on the weekend, I could come visit from Jacksonville and play, if that would be ok.   8-)

"How huge is huge?" was asked.  I had three DDGs, they are six hull and each carried four flights of these Eight-packs of Strikers.  There were two turns before we were in weapons range so the DDgs were able to launch all of their "Talos Strikers".  My fleet also had two battleships.  My nephew was on my side and he no strikers.  The other side had no fighters, strikers, etc. at all, but with both sides having the same amount of points, this should not have been such a lopsided battle.

:idea: I play a WW2 naval game called War At Sea.  In this game, when aircraft attack ships, the defending ships and other ships in range are able to fire their AA guns at the attacking aircraft, and friendly fighters can attempt to stop the attacking aircraft, etc.
Perhaps the phase of attacks by either of these three units, fighters/strikers/seekers, could be changed:
:arrow: These units could move the same as they do now, but not do any attacks until all have moved.  Then any ships that have weapons in range can fire at hostile flights of any of these units that are in range; also antifighter batteries can fire at any of these units within range one.  Then dogfights, seeker/striker intercepting seeker/striker/fighter combat can be resolved.  Finally any fighters/strikers/seekers make attacks on ships, but any seekers on the defending ship in "ADD" mode can defend the attacked ship.  Another change is that damage caused by each flights does Not take effect until all attacks are resolved, the same way it is done when ships fire at eachother.  After this, any shipboard weapons that have not fired during the previous AA phase and that were not destroyed by fighter/striker/seeker damage can fire at other ships or even at any remaining fighters if they wanted.
I think that this could make these units less brutal.  What does everyone else think?

Definitely, I should know more details in April.    8-)

Instead of rolling for these, give them a BPV cost, expressed as a percent increase of the combat value of the ship they are assigned to.  Rolling randomly is not good, IMHO, because if one side rolls well and gets a LC, etc and but other side rolls nothing, it makes for an unfair battle...

Your Uncle gives a sigh of relief ... <LOL>  :shock:

I think that this Juggernaught needs to have more hull; give it the full 24 hull.  Also, I would give it Armored Plating, because the SFB ship had armor as well as the rotating shield.  A way to better simulate its massive firepower, and enhanse the Phaser 4s at long range would be to give it Fire Control.   Do these upgrades and it will become the brute that it was/is in SFB.  8-)

Can the rules for using Drones (seekers) as anti-drones be used for any home-made seekers on home-made ships?  Or is this rule only for the Starmada-StarTrek ships to use?
Also, if seekers  of any design can be uses as "anti-drones", can they be fired at strikers and fighters?
If so, it would really make the antifighter batteries obsolete... :shock:

THese look great, but I notice that none of the weapons shoot out to 18.  Not to be critical, but the BBs I play which are speed 4, with weapons that shoot out to 18 could eventually pound these large ships to destruction without their being effectively able to reply... :?:
Perhaps the heaviest weapons on these ships should eb able to fire out to 18. 8-)

I never put AFBs on any of my ships because of their inability to fire at fighters first.  Even if they could, they have range one and only hit on a 5 or 6; not very useful. 
Instead all of my ships have "AA Guns"  They fire to range 18, hit on 3+ and have no range modifiers.  They are 1/1/1.  These can fire at fighters at range, and if their are no fighters, they can fire at ships.  They are very similiar to the US Navy's 5"/38 DP guns in WW2.  Points spent on these are much better spent than points wasted on AFBs. 8-)
IMHO

I think that he means a slightly different weapon trait, Double shield damage.  Whenever a shield hit is rolled , a 3 or 4, when determining which systems are hit, each of these 3 or 4 rolled does two shield hits, not one. :shock:   
This could lead to the same doubling ability for engines & weapons.  It would be not as devistating as Extra Shield, weapon, or Engine, just double damage to the specific when its number comes up in rolling where damage goes...
Hope this helps, :ugeek:

I agree.  All of the weapons on my ships hit on a 2+.  I do this to make sure that any ship that gets into range 18 recieves a heavy bombardment...  Also, It allows heavy AA fire at long range.  I think that Anti-fighter batteries are semi-useless.  We use mostly strikers and AFBs have No Effect against them.
Here is one of my heavier Dreadnoughts:

USS California  (606)

Hull: 19 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 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1           
Shields: 4 4 4 4 4 3 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 Photon Cannon"  6/12/18, 1/2+/1/4
; Piercing +2; Starship-exclusive
[ABCD][ABCD][CDEF][CDEF]

Y: "5 Inch Laser Cannon"  6/12/18, 1/2+/1/1
[ABCD][HIJK][HIJK][CDEF]

Special: Hyperdrive; Armor Plating; Marines (6); Teleporters (3) [/b]

Welcome!
All my ship's weapons have range 18.  The heavy weapons that are designed to destroy other ships have Starship Exclusive and other weapon traits.  The secondary weapons have no weapon traits, and are able be used to shoot down fighters, strikers, etc and can also shoot at other ships.  (The idea of having short range AA weapons to shoot down these is kinda silly IMHO).  All the Strikers I use on my DDGs have speed 15.  I don't use fighters because I think they are Not really cost effective, especially against a fleet like mine or the ones my nephew & friends play in south Florida.
Cheers