You should have no problems using it with open office, I have been updating the shipyard with it for a few years now.
If you spot anything which is confusing or looks wrong just let me know.

Hope that you like the shipyard, it can look a bit busy as all of the workings are visible. Have you had a look at the pdf for the shipyard yet?

Paul

One thing I did not mention about counters.

You can get sheets of Steel paper, Hole punch them and with magnetic sheet on the back of the counters - Fleets in a folder!

Nahuris[/quote]

sure....you say that now!  Wait til after the floor joists start cracking due to pewter weight!  [/quote]

I can relate to this. First models I bought were Leicester Micro Model ships in 1/4800 and tanks in 1/300. (Not much in the way of details on the ships and the tank barrels were wire.) Many years later I concluded that shifting lbs of miniatures is not good for people let alone joists!

That is why I have gone back to the 60's, making my own counters. I am sure that back then I was quicker with pen and paint than I am with Paint shop pro!

I would be happy with dorsal views of the ships. It would make life easier.
Making a top down counter from a 3/4 view takes time and a lot of guess work for the parts that cannot be seen in a picture.

Paul

That is odd. I bought the pdf version as soon as it was available, page 38 under Boarding pods states:
A standard flight of boarding pods has a size of 6, a speed of 10, an attack value of 4+, and no defence rating.

There is no list between Boarding Pods on page 38 and Teleporters on page 39.

It is no big deal, I have corrected the shipyard.
Does the printed version differ from the pdf? I wonder.

Paul

Talking of Tenders, I had added this to the shipyard for VBAM users. From the VBAM details:
Tender = Included in equipment, 1 level for each choice of Tender. For each level, the ship can can Dock 1 Attack Boat (Hull 1) or 2 Super Heavy fighters.

150SU per level, OCR=25 DCR(+)=25

Paul

Why bother? SFB has used whole forests printing tactics by and for players. Every uber weapon has been studied, picked over and then been out done.

I wonder why nobody has even questioned if such a conversion is needed. Starmada in it's various forms has already given rise to Star Trek games and conversions both SFB and FASA. OK not "official" but are they any the worse for that.

Change the way Starmada works and it is just SFB by another name.

Even in this thread it seems that SFB thinking has started. Should it be change Starmada to SFB or change SFB to fit in with Starmada?

Just playing devils advocate. But stop to think, Starmada X was pared down to make Starmada AE more playable. There are plenty of choices already which seem to cover any type of weapon. Maybe just another couple of traits and strikers?

Do we really want more complexity and book keeping?

Paul

Version 3.4 with companion pdf V3 posted

Sorry about all of these updates.
My brother thinks I'm nuts to keep going over the spreadsheet to find faults!
Paul

Thanks for the input.
I overlooked the Stars Divided sxca that comes with the book download.
That has Atmospheric as 20% Hull SU.
I do not know where this calculation comes from as I can not find the figure in the rules.

Paul

Thanks, I think that this is just one of those quirks of translation.

Paul

Hi Jonas,
Pleased that the How to is understandable. A picture can explain details better than trying to in just words.
By the way, the Ship on the last page is a Bitmap saved from the Starmada sheet.

Must mean that the Excel is changing some of the cell formats.
Probably somewhere in the template sheet block from AX8 to BC38.
The Calculations from the template sheet are copied over onto the text and starmada ship sheets so the problem is not there. Sometimes a different version of Excel need only change one little thing and errors crop up all over.

Sometimes I just hate spreadsheets. Found another quirk yesterday that was stopping the small craft traits from working properly!

Check out OpenOffice.org, there may be a version of Open Office calc that you can use. Quite a few people use it, maybe as it is free.

I keep the shipyard as Microsoft Excel 97/2000/xp.

Revamped the way that some of the VBAM stats are calculated. Some clashed due to the change from Starmada X to AE.
Added a page to the Shipyard pdf for VBAM ships.

Just uploaded New Shipyard v3.2 and how to pdf V2 to go with it.

Paul