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Can I steal that beautiful arc diagram and make a bigger one to repost in the "need an arc diagram" thread?
Rory Hinnen wrote:> Are we really going to build for Russia?
>
> I agree, the ships are too dark. And to really capture the
> new soviet realist style, you'd have to convert Lenin to a
> line drawing, and your masses should be fewer, more
> recognizable, and graphic. Having said that, I can find
> instances of this sort of photo montage in NSR artwork.Well, I based the thing off this poster:
http://www.internationalposter.com/pimages/RUL07121.jpg
That poster has bigger ships and the ships themselves are white, which cuts down the brain melting aspect of the background color.
Also the stroke around the people and other stuff is thinner and lighter than the background.
All I see in the poster you've got is the background.
Try lightening the midtones for the ships and generally "washing" out the background color and see what that gets you 
ships... too dark
background... makes my brain melt!
other than that, it looks great! 
Hobby Lobby/Michael's/Craft Stores all have these cool 1.5" disks which you can get 1.5" avery stickers for.
That's what I use for fighters as they can be easily stacked.
A natural extension would be to use it for capital ships too!
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Paul,
Thanks, that did it.
Dare I ask how to incorporate that ods file with the Starmada style sheet into Excel 2000?
Cheers,
Christopher
Some good samaritan has to open it with Open Office.org and save it as a xls sheet.
I was hoping that Paul would do both formats, but given his isgnatuire line, that may be asking too much
catenwolde,
Put this in Template cells $G$8 and $C$53 instead then.
"=+$Y$73"Jim,
OK, Added Starmada sheet. Just enter details on Template sheet and print the Starmada sheet.
Some changes though.
Will show Hull up to 25.
When Screens are selected, the "Shield" number 1 to 5, is changed to "Screen" numbers 4 to 20.Paul
Rock on!
is there any way we can get the out put sheet to look like the "real" starmada sheet?
i don't much like the loks of the shipyard record sheet.
No offense intended, of course
jim
Makes sense - I hadn't digested the fighter rules yet!
I had another epiphany, however. It's easy to visualize a PEN of 2 as a twin gun mount (1 aiming process, but two hits), and a ROF of 2 as a section of 2 gun mounts ... and of course a combined ROF/PEN 2 as a section of 2 twin gun mounts. This will help a lot when rationalizing the large numbers of guns in the Star Wars batteries.
How about multiple ROF 2 Repeaters as anti-fighter batteries?
Well, that's a darn neat idea, it has the benefit of being anti fighter at the same time it's a good anti ship weapon too...
I've always thought of ROF as "how many barrels"
to make better anti fighter weapons, use a ROF of 3, PEN 1 and DMG 1
PEN and DMG mean nothing to fighters as they are never rolled.
Well, actually, it was a compilation of what was in the compendium, I believe...
Noel had a timeline built somewhere that details out some of the more interesting moments in Starmadda history.
I picked one already...
Did I not mention that I AM the tiebreaker
I mean making it fit both your idea of what TL means AND the "normal" idea fo tech levels.
or that may be too complicated. NVM
I wish we had a single way of doing this...
go ahead and post it to the topic about the shipbuilder.
any chance we can get the TL for individual weapons optional?
makes fighters too sticky, in my opinion.
It was great when we got Launch Bays even more important with the VBAM/Starmada campaign system.
However, if you put too much detail in the system, not only does it bog things down, but it is restrictive in it's implementation.
One must always balance one's own personal desire to reflect "reality" with everyone else's desire to reflect their own reality.
I you want to implement that, go for it, just don't expect my fighters to conform to your constraints. I personally have problems with fighters outside the plain vanilla version.
but that's just me and I'm not going to squawk too much if you bring some 200 point fighter flights to the table, I'm just going to concentrate fire on them.
I like the idea of the size of the bay being important, but I'd force people to spend more SUs on fighters than they currently do, rather than add more levels of complicated detail.
Except that how do you define the to-hit die against the firing ship? Does it retain the same chance as against other targets? Is the firing ship at short range?
details details...
I think it should roll PEN, one for each "hit"
so there 
A volatile weapon is dangerous -- not only for the intended target, but for the firing ship as well!
When such a weapon is used, roll one die per point of ROF on the following chart:
1: Roll one to-hit die against the firing ship
2-3: Roll one to-hit die against the firing ship, AND roll one to-hit die against the target.
4-6: Roll one to-hit die against the target.
More of a wording change than anything else
I'd change the PEN roll to
1: Firer takes target shield value hits on DMG track (minimum 1)
2-3: Target takes target shield value hits on DMG track (minimum 1)
4-6: Both take target shield value hits on DMG track (minimum 1 each)
then you're almost as likely to hurt yourself as the other guy.
so this particular "volatile" weapon is truly evil.
Dune-style LasGun 3+, 5/10/15, 3+ 1/3/1, Volatile, Inverted Range Modifires
and yikes!
here you go, once more, choose the best
pick the best one
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