Hello everyone,
I am going to guess that the reason that there are no range 21 or 27 weapons is that the range 24 & 30 are optional, and the ranges of 21 and 27 were not needed.
All of my secondary weapons have a range of 20.  I achieve this by giving them range=30 & carronade.  This gives them only short & medium range.  All of my capital ships have range=30 hexes on their heavy weapons.  This makes firing all the weapons of these ships easy to use because they  have the same short & medium range to hit numbers.  And the r=30 heavy weapons on the DNs, BBs, & BCs also have the corresponding long range.
The ranges are 10/20/- for secondary weapons, and 10/20/30 for the heavy weapons.  If I played with players who insisted on using a max range of 18 hexes, The above numbers would change to 6/12/- for secondaries and 6/12/18 for heavy weapons.
I turned 50(!) in Sept of last year and need to simplify whenever practical...<LOL>
PS:  The gamers I play with in south Florida are not going to use the "+3 Piercing" weapon ability any more.  :idea: 
This option makes level shields no more effective than level 4 shields.  Even level 5 shields only block 1/3 of hits from weapons with +3 Piercing. 
I must admit that I have had most of my capital ships outfitted with +3 Piercing on their heavy weapons. :shock:

Just use one of the Starmada AE shipyard programs that are availiable in this forum.  The links to them are everywhere... :shock:
Then, when designing your ship, assign it 9 screens and put them as you described.  Welcome to Starmada!   

Hello everyone!
Is their a consensus on how much Ablative Armor should cost?  I used it extensively when playing Starmada X over a year ago.  It would be great to install it on my SAE ships now.  My 14 & 15 hull BBs will need it. :!:
I will be in South Florida next weekend 'til New Years and I think we will be gaming at Gaming Glenn's aweesome store on Saturday 12/27.  All are welcome.  My nephew's creative & formitable designs will be there...  8)

Combine this with Stealth and you have an almost unbeatable combination.  Very brutal, very clever, very devastating, very effective... :shock:

Hello everyone!

A year ago, I used Ablative Armor on all my Starmada"X"ships.  I put on an amount equal to how much hull the ship had.  This increased their cost, but worked very well.  It would be great if this could be added to SAE.  I definitely would add it to all my ships just as I did a year ago. 8)

Excellent Updates; well done.   8)
If you could add in one more weapon battery that would be awesome.  Some WW1 predreadnoughts and armored cruisers have 3 different batteries as well as torpedoes.  :shock:
It would be great to be able to put all of 'em on the ship's sheet.

Paul is right about  plunging fire being brutal.  I think that a better idea is to only have a "-1" on penetration for medium range.  Most ships had an "immune zone" where the shells of guns similar to its main armament would not penetrate its deck armor or side armor.  This immune zone was usually at medium range. 8)

In WW1, torpedoes had shallow or deep setting added before they are fired.  Those that are set deep would no doubt half armor on capital ships, but go under & miss destroyers and perhaps light cruisers.  Torpedoes with a shallow setting could hit destroyers and all other ships, but would not half the armor of BBs, BCs, and possibly CAs.

Dan is right that piercing +3 is wasted on ships with shields that are <4, but nearly all of the ships I face when I am in South Florida at Gaming Glenn's store, have Level 5 shields.   My friends up here have level 5 shields on most of their shields also:  Their defenses are formidable!  :shock: 
However, only the heavy guns on my capital ships have +3 or +2.  The secondary guns do not even have any piercing at al.  They are used mostly for AA fire or to fire at hordes of shieldless, one-hull ships....

Perhaps a way to deal with DDs in flotillas is to borrow some rules from Fighters in regular Starmada, and modify them for WW1 Naval Combat like this:
1) DDs, ships, etc in flotillas are -1 to hit by guns larger than 6" .
2) Each hit, reguardless of impact or damage of the gun or torpedo, destroys/sinks only one ship (no need for impact or damage roll). 

What does everyone think?  My friends & I are playing Dreadnoughts again this afternoon.  8)

Exactly,  or by rolling a "6", and then rolling 1, 2, or 3.  8)

I will now be using Dreadnoughts for all of my WW 1 battles. 
I was planning on adding these changes:
1)  If a ship turns more that 60 degress, it gets a "-1" to hit for that turn.
2)  The penetration ability of guns declines somewhat at longer ranges. Thus, all armor penetration by guns is "-1" at long range. 
(Torpedoes do not have this "-1" at long range.)

I was wondering what others think of these additions?

Another idea I thought of was to use the ship designer and keep everything the same, but to add "Extra Hull Damage" to all of the of the torpedoes.  Torpedoes in WW1 were brutal.  An Austrian Dreadnought was sunk by two torpedo hits in the Adriatic Sea, and many predreadnoughts and armored cruisers sank after only one torpedo or mine hit. :shock:

Just read the rules and am looking forward to using them.  I have c130 WW1 naval miniatures, mostly BBs.  I like having the exact CR for each ship as well as having simple, easy-to-use torpedo rules!   

I guess that there are those who think that all the weapons on my ships shoot to 30 hexes, hit on 2+, have lotsa weapon abilities, with level 5 shields and 24 hull. 
This is ridiculous.  :shock: 
Here is one of the Battleships that I may use next week,

USS New York   (850) 
 
Hull: 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1             
Engines: 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1             
Shields: 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1             
Weapons:
1:X 2:X 3:X 4:Y 5: 6:
 
X: 14 Inch Plasma Guns: 10/20/30, 2/3+/1/2
Piercing
[GHIJK][GHIJK][HIJK ][HIJKL][HIJKL] 
 
Y: 5 Inch Plasma Guns: 10/20/-, 1/3+/1/1
Carronade; Piercing
[HIJK][HIJK] 
 
Special: Hyperdrive; Armor Plating; Anti-Fighter Batteries (2); Marines (4); Teleporters