Paul,

I downloaded the Version 1.9 and noticed little triangles in the corners nearly everywhere.  I cannot make it calculate the cost, and still get  #N/A as the cost.  :oops: 
But the small craft part works so what I will continue doing is to use your program's small craft tab to calculate the SU requirements of customized seekers, etc, then transfer the info to the other SAE shipmaker 2.0 version.

I have downloaded Open Office, but do not know how to make the Shipmaker1.9 go into it.
PCs can be so &$%$ing frustrating!!!  Obviously our world is "-5" Tech in PCs...  :shock: <LOL>

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

I will try that when I get home.  :idea: 
I am headed off to Wardogs here in Jacksonville.  My gaming friends and I are playing a game with c8000 points on a side.  That gives each player 4000 points.  I will be able to take 2 battleships, a cruiser, and 4 DDGs... All r welcome at our weekly sunday games @ 2pm. 8)

:idea: When you get your Starmada Admiralty version of your previous Starmada ship designer programs up & running, don't forget to forward a copy of it up to your friend in NE Fla... 

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

In the splendid game Starfire, there were these ship types:
corvetts, frigates, destroyers, light cruisers, heavy cruiser, battle cruisers, battleships, super-dreaadnoughts, monitors, etc.  Each ship class was larger than the one before, and the larger ones were slower.  Also the hull cost for the larger ships was higher too.  The ships bigger than battleships were called Super-dreadnoughts, not simply Dreadnoughts. 
I had lots of fun with this game 20 yrears ago because it was a game where you could design your own ships.  My designs were often very brutal...  :shock:

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

PS:  Great tho Starfire was, Starmada is superior in all aspects 

Hello everyone!
My ships are WW2 ships sent into space, similar to IJN Yamato  in Starblazers.  0n these ships, every weapon has an IMP of one.  I let the rate of fire = the number of barrels the weapon had in real life for the heavy weapons.  The damage gets larger as the weapon size increases, 
Right now, my biggest ship is my 14 hulled USS North Carolina.  It has 3 weapons corresponding to its 3 main 16 Inch gun turrets: 
:arrow: 16 Inch guns; Rng=30, ROF=3, Acc=2+, Imp=1, Dmg=4, w/Piercing. 
These mounts are: [GHIJK] [GHIJK]  [HIJKL]
The 5 Inch guns fire more rapidly:  Rng=18, ROF=4, Acc=2+, Imp=1, Dmg=1.
The ship also has hyperdrive and Armor Plating, Speed = 6 & Shields = 4.
Cost = 1404.
The 14 Inch guns on the slightly smaller 13 hulled ships, such as on the Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi, etc are similiar, but Rng=24 & Dmg=3.
This has worked out well.  I am playing these Admiralty versions of my ships today.    

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

Happy New Year everyone!

I am running several games of Starmada Admiralty at Broadsword Comics and Games this Saturday Jan 5th @ Noon.  This store is in Orange Park, just south of Jacksonville.  Hopefully I will have new players and some present Starmada X players there. 
I was wondering if there is an updated Starmada Admiralty version of the StarmadaX Reference Sheet.  I have used this in the past to assist new players with the game.  I am building up a group of players down here in the Jacksonville - St Augustine area of NE Fla., and plan to introduce them to the Admiralty edition.
All are welcome.  Bring your own designs or use Federation, Klingon, and Romulan designs I am putting together.  8)

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

Hello everyone,
      :idea: I may have a solution to having interceptors hit other fighters better than ships, and bombers hitting ships better than fighters.  Just design the fighter as normal, then change its to hit #s in use. 
For example, any fighter that is designed to hit on a 5+ can be changed at no cost. zIf you want to have it as an interceptor, it will hit other fighters, etc on a 4+, and ships on a 6+.  If you want it to be a bomber, then it will hit ships on 4+, but only hit other fighters only on a 6+.  This was how interceptors and bombers were handled in the Starmada Compendium.   
Before the battle, decide which fighters will be in which role because this designation cannot be changed during the middle of the battle. :!:  <LOL>  :shock:

I guess that with all the snow up North and in the Midwest that many don't want to hear that I went into the pool down here in Florida on Christmas Day... :shock:

Happy New Year everyone!  Make 2008 the best year you have had.  Enjoy what is good, be kind to those who need it, and try to count your blessings whenever you feel sad.
:idea:

Hello everyone,

I have just finished reading thru the New Starmada Admiralty rules and am very, very impressed with them.  There are so many good things here, that I almost don't know where to start.  I am pleased with  the simplification of game play & the new Data Card, as well as the greater ranges weapons can have. Also, I like the elimination of some of the more abused things of Starmada X such as:
{TDAR, halves shields, Ignores shields&Ionic Shields, PDS, expendables, etc}. 
Well done!

I may miss over-thrusters because my main warships are WW2 battleships, cruisers, destroyers, etc made into 14 to 4 hulled space ships.  To compensate for no overthrusters, I have changed the arcs of the forward "FX" turrets from [ABCD] to [GHIJK], and the rear "AX" turrets from [CDEF] to [HIJKL]. this gives them 120 degrees of broadside fire instead of 60 degrees.  Those designs with center turrets such as my Texas, Iron Duke, and Arkansas class 12 hull ships  have these center turret's arcs changed from [CD] to {HIJK].  I think that with skillful maneuvering, I should be able to fire all heavy guns most of the time.  Neither Admiral Jellico nor Admiral Scheer had overthrusters @ Jutland in 1916...<LOL>.
I have made each ships turrets in thi way:  ROF=the number of barrels in the turret, IMP=1, DMG= 4 for 16"guns, 3 for 14"guns,  2 for 12' guns, and 1 for 8"guns.  These main batteries also have "Piercing" as their Weapon option.  The secondary 5", 4.5", 4", etc guns do not have any weapon ability and will be used to fire @ fighters, drones, etc.  All battleships & Cruisers have Armor plating also...
I am having a great deal of fun designing these ships and look forward to using them.
Splendid ship design rules!

I also like the new movement rules.  They seem fairly easy to use.  It helps to not compare them to other movement systems, but to just use them.  I especially like the idea of using "U-turns".  Sometimes in Star Trek, the Enterprise would rapidly make a U-turn to get away, (such as in "Balance of Terror" when the CA Enterprise makes a U-Turn and goes to maximum warp to try and outrun a Romulan type "R" Plasma torpedo). 
Excellent movement rules!

I look forward to playing Starmada, hopefully this Sunday, using this Awesome Admiralty Edition rules. 
For me, these are now  THE   Starmada Rules 

Steven Gilchrist, Jacksonville, Fla, USA

With respect to Starmada X Space stations, we used the Starmada Compendium's rules on space stations as guidlines: :idea:
No engines & the SU ammount is 150% of a same sized ship.  Range 36 weapons cost twice as much as range 18 weapons, etc.  It works well.  This lets these weapons outrange any spinal mounts so that spinal mount ships don't become space station destroyers.  The range of Spinal mounts on space stations was Not doubled... 8)
All my space stations also have overthrusters...

Hello everyone,
Some questions about the new version of Starmada.
Will this new version of the Starmada game be compatable with the Starmada "X" version?  0r wll the Starmada Admiral version's ships be different and not able to be used with the 0lder(!) Starmada X ships?  (Much in the same way as StarmadaX ships and Starmada Compendium ships cannot really mix) 
If  so, I will pause on any new Starmada X designing and await the new game   8)   
[From the Star-Navy Dept: Stop all ship designs 'til further notice<LOL>]

Steven Gilchrist, Jacksonville, Fla, USA

PS:  We had a great 12,000 point game here in Jacksonville on Sunday.  We used expendibles, but allowed them only one weapon ability.  It was fun and only took 4 hours. 

Hello everyone!

The idea of blocking "Halves Shields" to reduce the effects of fighter attacks is interesting, but not necessary.  If you equip your ships with level 3 shields and point defense, fighter-attacks that hit these ships will only penetrate on a roll of 4 or 6. 

When you consider that only 1/3 of the fighters that attack your ship actually hit it, and then combine this with only 1/3 of these hits getting thru, it means that only one in nine attacking fighters will cause damage to your ship.  If you have anti-fighter batteries, it means the attacker is loosing 3 fighters for every 2 internals being scored:  Ouch!

What does everyone else think?

Steven Gilchrist
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

PS:  I am going south for the holiday and playing Starmada with my nephew and Gaming Glenn at his store, Dragon's Lair, just outside Fort Lauderdale. We are playing Wednesday 11/21 @ 1pm and possibly on Friday