BRAAAAAAAIIIIINSSSS! 

I think the best part of the whole article is that the Dr that has the question mark as part of his name. Why didn't I think of that!
Erik

I read Silent Wind of Doom and thought this thread was going to be about some new playtest ship...or what happens about an hour after Taco Bell...

I come here every day, but I haven't had a lot to say, so I guess I'm part of the problem.  :cry:

I think in the nicer weather people generally spend less time sitting around writing 10 page posts about how they would represent ablative shields or whatever. I know I do. At least the weather has been nice here for a whole 24 hours...but as this "Summer" has gone, I won't expect it to last.
Oh, and I'll have more to say once we get our grubby paws on Klingon Armada! 
Cheers,
Erik

perhaps Nelson's point list got left in the basement after the battle; did anyone look in the rubbermaid tub holding his fleet? Maybe he accidentally threw out the list because it was so covered by smudged fingerprints of Cheetoh residue as to be unrecognizable. 
Erik
PS perhaps you could be considered a Pointallista?

Could the gaming universe survive without weed? I suppose as long as there are still Doritos

Erik

Somehow, when I copied the ship designs for the tournament I cut off the "rules" that Madseason posted at the top of the post. I was operating with the first post of the topic in mind for some reason. I apologize to both of my opponents again for the mix up and the delay it has caused. I couldn't log any computer time last night so it will be tonight at the earliest before I can correct my setups and resend them.
Sorry again for holding things up.
Erik

Veteran eh? I guess 2 games grants me veteran status...after the tourney I suppose I will be a Grizzled Veteran! 
Truth is the Vassal interface simplifies things so much that I find that I have to slow down so that I don't miss steps (like last turns screens allocation for half my squadron!). I did miss getting to roll a sack of dice when I popped those CRM Batteries  :geek:
During  the game I keep a printout of the turn sequence stuff from the rulebook on the desk in front of me and I scribble all my orders on a memo pad before typing them in, that way I can cross each item off as I go and it's easier to keep track of everything.
Now I'm off to do what will probably be the final turn of our ongoing game 
Cheers,
Erik

Tell me about it, "Friendly Fenway" where the Red Sox play is the most expensive ticket outside of the new Yankee Stadium, and once you pay the gas station owner your firstborn to park 6 blocks from the park...well you get the picture.
I stopped going to games when the worst seats in the park went over $20 a pop and I haven't been back since. I'd rather watch the games on TV anyway (they show replays, the food's cheaper, I never have to worry about parking, if it rains I stay dry and can watch something else and when they suck I can change the channel as well). I'll pay to go to a Worcester Tornadoes game (the local independent minor league baseball team) before  would take free tickets to Boston because of all of the hassles involved. Ken Burns can keep the atmosphere, I like money in my wallet and simplicity. 
Erik

The latest version I tried of open office gave my Mac fits (mostly very odd random copying and bizarro formating problems) but works fine on my wife's windows laptop.
My wife convinced me to buy a Mac...which I'm paying for...and she hogs it most of the time while I huddle in the corner with the old laptop...from what I hear I have a fairly typical marriage 
Cheers,
Erik

Well, sign me up for one. Interested to see the factions that you have come up with, and it will be nice to play even more.
Cheers,
Erik

TEASE TEASE TEASE!!!!!
:evil:

Of course I will forgive you when I can acquire these mysterious items 
Erik

Just wondering, has anyone proposed lowering the shield rating by the number of IMP dice that it stops in that facing?  Don't reduce the shield rating track as if it were damage, just the facet. That would seem to give it the feel that the shield was hit by something and reduced, but not technically damaged. Maybe each turn the shield could regenerate 1 point of facet (total for the entire ship not each facet) not to exceed the total shield rating available on the track (to add actual damage to the equation). That would seem to give the feel of Trek shields that reduce as they are struck, and damage does seem to penetrate all the time on screen, even while the shields still have XYZ precent remaining. It may not be a port from SFB but it should give the "feel" of Trek. It would probably necessitate re-costing shields, and could theoretically make ratings of greater than 5 not outrageous ("Shields 7 eh? Well we'll just whittle those down a bit with phaser fire before we go in for the kill")
Just thinking out loud...er...in type.
Cheers,
Erik