Hello everyone from Jacksonville,

I made my ships smaller, and they were successful.  My Capital ships now range in size from 18 to 24, and cost from c1200 to c1700.  Most are now speed 4, but the Iowa class Battleships are speed 6, and mass 24...
[I wll save the 30 hull size for BatttlefleetGothic's Battleships that I plan to do Starmada write-ups for.]
My Big ships still have the same weapons and are the same tech level. Bfore, when theeir size was from 28 to 32 (!), they had lots of extra unused space.  My thanks to everyone who reminded me that smaller ships can still be fine to play. 
0f course many will think that my  24 hull, speed 6 Iowa class ships are to large...<LOL>

Steven GIlchrist

Hello again everyone!

My friend and I played again on Saturday 4/29.  The game was fine, but as a result,I decided to reduce the size of all of my capital ships by 8.  Now my most common size for Battleships is 22 hull, with speed of only 4.  The weapons and shields are the same.[the ships had lotsa SUs to spare]  This reduces their combat value, and will (hopefully) enable me to play more of them in a givin battle. Although I will have less hit points, I will have more fire-power.  I think that this will work.  I no longer have any more 30 hull ships!  Whew!

Steven GIlchrist; Jacksonville, Fla, USA

All of my ships have PDS.  The big ships also have level 3 screens.  I keep the hexes facing my opponant pumped to 4 and, combined with the PDS, he neds a 6 on penetration rolls to cause damage.  All of my ships have PDS.  Don't leave Home(world) with out it...  <LOL>

Steven GIlchrist, Jacksonville, Fla, USA

TNS Jupiter                                1917                                   
                                                                   
                                  Tech mod:        +4    SU=174                       
                                                                   
Damage Rolls                                                                   
1        2        3        4        5        6                           
Ha        Eb        Hc        S        H        Q                           
Hull:        30        Engines:        5        Shields:        3                           
qqqqq        qqqqq        qqqqq                qqq                                   
qqqqq        qqqqq                                                           
qqqqq        qqqqq                                                           
Weapon type a                    Range            To-Hit    ROF    PEN    DMG                       
21 Inch Torpedoes                    1-6    7-12    13-18    3+    3    1    1                       
(Exp) Re-Rolls To-Hit Dice, Re-Rolls Penetration Dice, Increased DMG                                                                   
                ab    ab    ab                                           
                q    q    q                                           
Weapon type b                    Range            To-Hit    ROF    PEN    DMG                       
21 Inch Torpedoes                    1-6    7-12    13-18    3+    3    1    1                       
(Exp) Re-Rolls To-Hit Dice, Re-Rolls Penetration Dice, Increased DMG                                                                   
                ab        ab                                           
                q        q                                           
Weapon type c                    Range            To-Hit    ROF    PEN    DMG                       
5 Inch guns                    1-6    7-12    13-18    3+    3    1    1                       
Re-Rolls To-Hit Dice                                                                   
        abce    abc    abc        abd    abd    abdf                                   
        q    q    q        q    q    q                                   
Special Equipment                                                                   
Hyperdrive                Armor Plating                Medical Bay                                   
q                                                                   
Long Range Sensors                Electronic Countermeasures                Science Lab                                   
q                q                                                   
Point-Defense System                Overthrusters                Troops (250) x4                                   
q                q                                                   
Spinal Mount                Drone                Drone                                   
qqqqq        q        qqqqq        qqqqq        qqqqq        qqqqq                           
Movement Orders                                Spinal Mount                                   
1                6                Wave Motion Guns                                   
2                7                To-Hit=5+        ROF=1    PEN=1                       
3                8                Range:    1-11    12-22    23-33                       
4                9                DMG=undamaged hull boxes                                   
5                10                Arc of fire: forward 60                                   
Arcs: A=FP, B=FS, C=P, D=S, E=AP, F=AS (P=port/left, S=starboard/right, F=forward, A=aft)                                                                    Very Strange how it came out... (!) (?) <LOL>

Hello everyone! 
Two weeks ago, a friend and I here in Jacksonville played two 8,000 point games (!)   My larger ships are mass 29 & 30, speed 5 and cost between c1700 and 1950.  The 8,000 point  battles went fast because of the large ammount of expendible weapons my friend used, even tho his largest ships are only 20 Hull.  Now that we limit each ship to only up to 5 expendible weapons, with the total of {ROF+PEN+Damage} not greater than five, these battles last longer.  Last week  only played c5,000 point games.  Fortunately, my friend is very good at keeping track of numbers and dice.  It makes for some fun games...

We play again tommorrow Saturday 4/22;  I will let everyone know how it goes! 

Steven GIlchrist
Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
Starmada Rules!!

My Friend who I play with in Jacksonville has expendible weapons that have this combination: {Repeating+RerollsToHit+RerollsPenetration}.  The way we deal with this combination is to only the repeating weapon to reroll any misses once, the first time it makes its rolls to hit.  Then those iniaial hits + the Rerolls that hit are rerolled as normal again, and again 'til they are done, or have made six shots.  We only allow repeating weapons to shoot only up to six times because if they are hitting on a 2+ this rerolling can go on and on and on and... <LOL>.

StevenGilchrist
Jacksonville, Fla, USA

Hello again! 

     On Wed 4/12, my friend and I played again.  The combination of screens and all weapons firing out to 18 seemed to do the trick.  All of my ships were damaged severely, but having the screens on the  two sides facing him set at  4 & the PDS all my ships have, caused his expendible weapons to need a "6" to penetrate.  Also the ECM gave him a "-1" to hit.  And ships  have armor plating.  Altho heavily damaged, my ships had half of their weapons intact and would have been able to destroy his ships (since they had shot their expendible bolt.)  But it was close, and my friend conceeded after the first turn that we fired at eachother.  We have since agreed to limit tech levels to a maximum of tech +4.    :roll:

     I have modified all of my ships:   Now all  DNs, CGs, CLAAs, DDGs, CVs, and even the 5 hull MTBs have one Wave Motion Gun (= anime style spinal mount).  Since my ships are most like the StarBlazers "Argo", the former IJN Yamato, I thought I would add one also. 

     My friend's newest version of his ships deletes shields and anti-fighter batteries to retain his massive amount of expendible weapons and still be a total tech of +4.  He also shortened their max-range to 9 hexes.  These newest ships of his  are 10 hull and speed 20!   I will have some fighters along on the next battle we have on Saturday, needless to say...   
I will let everyone know what happens   

Steven Gilchrist
Jacksonville, Fla.