Interesting conversion. I had a few differences from the way you did things when I converted mine. I think I might go back and revise it.

1.) I had lances as piercing +1, rather than ignores shields and were RoF 2 rather than 1. (Reason being, there are two "guns" on most Imperial Lance Turrets.)

2.) Weapon Batteries had their strength divided by 4 (or 8) to determine the DMG rating per gun and four guns (or eight) per broadside. (Again, this was just to match the look of the IMP ships.)

3.) I had my Nova Cannon as 30/1/5+/2/1, Minimum Range, Area Effect, Variable DMG. That way it more closely resembled the original.

4.) I used the default strikers and seekers rather than customizing mine. (That's acuz I was lazy and standard shipbuilder doesn't do different fighters...)

5.) I used faceted shields to represent the variable armor on the Imperial ships, and went with a lower armor since the weapons now had to roll to hit. (4/3/3/3/3/3 instead of 5/4/4/4/4/4.)

6.) All guns had a worse ACC rating. (5+ rather than 4+)

7.) All arcs were based on the GHIJKL rather than ABCDEF as I felt the HJ and IK arcs resembled the BFG arcs better than C and D arcs respectively. Though you will end either being too sharp or too narrow I think.

8.) All of my ships had launch tubes... but if the seeker flights are set according to the torpedo rating of the ship, only carriers really need the tubes.

Other than that, I think I might synthesize part of your ideas with mine. I am curious what made you decide on some of the things you did. Especially in giving all Imperial ships Fire Control and the Ignores Shields of the Lances. How did the vessels "feel" in play? Did they feel like their BFG counterpart? Or did they feel... 'off'?

Really, I don't think that Starmada can really trim anything and still remain Starmada. The game doesn't require you to play with every option. I guess I'm with everyone else when I ask, where's the fat? What is too much?

Any good Zombie rule set has to have rules for the notorious head shot. Just so you can roll and be all like, BOOM! HEADSHOT!

'Course, been working on a simple set of rules where the very, *VERY* basic rule is: Roll dice, if the range in inches is equal to over over the distance to your target then the target is dropped. Boom. Headshot.

Well, looking at the game I ran:

We had three ships per side -
Arcturans - 2 x Hayabusa Destroyers, 1 x Kyouwa Cruiser. A total of 476 points.
Negali - 2 x Yrithar Frigates, 1 x Tabercji Cruiser. A total of 444 points.

The only reason the Arcturans won was that the Negali Cruiser didn't cancel hyperdrive. I think I forgot to tell him that he could cancel it. My bad. Had he not, the situation of the Arcturans:
1 Destroyer gone, 1 stripped of all waepons and shields with just three points of hull left. The cruiser stripped of all heavy weapons, shields and only one point of hull left. The Negali ship? Missing one hull and that was from a forced hyperjump that failed. Of the two Frigates, one jump away safely, the other got kaboomed by a Particle Cannon alpha-strike.

Going with a comparison of capabilities:
Looking at it, balanced. We have the Tabercji vs a Kyouwa and a Hayabusa. The points are slightly in favor of the Arcturans.
We'll assume both ships centerline at range 7.

The Arcturans fire all Particle Cannons. That'll be a total of six. On average, half of them will hit, roughly. That gives six dice for impacts. Against a shield value of five, one impact will make it in, for a rough total of four damage to the Negali Cruiser, with a delay before they can fire those guns again.

Looking at the other side of the fence, the Negali ship: Can risk an all or nothing shot on a 4+. But for sake of math, we'll assume fired separately (Can fire-linked fire independently at the same ship?) Again, one hit, one miss. Here we have three dice for impact, with all dice needing a 3 or better to bump shields thanks to piercing. That's two dice that the odds say will bump through. Now we have eight dice for damage. Granted, dealing with Arcturans, one out of every six shots will be dropped, thanks to Armor Plating. So roughly about seven damage and the Negali can fire again next turn with the same weapon. Now, let's throw in their second set of heavy weapons. (I consider any weapon that can deal more than two damage in a single volley, whether based on ROF, IMP, DMG or traits as a heavy weapon.) Four more shots, half of which will hit, for two chances to bump shields. Half those will make it in, adding another two damage onto the Arcturan vessel.

The Negali ship is hurt, but the Arcturan vessel is nearly crippled. And that was assuming that the Negali ship would have fired upon the Arcturans cruiser. Firing at the destroyer is even worse, as five out of six shots would pierced shields rather than four. On top of that, the Negali vessel will be capable of firing again the following turn, whereas the Arcturan will only have their short ranged weaponry to fire.

Oh and any thoughts of, well the Negali ship has a narrow fire arc with the big guns, I'll remind you that they have overthrusters.

Working in 1/72 scale, there's a box called Space Battles from a company called Dark Dream Studio. It has two walker-types and 17 "Space Rangers"

While not their official website (I don't think there *is* one...) here's a link to what they look like: http://www.plasticrush.com/DARKDREAMSTUDIO72001.htm

They seem to be made of a softer plastic but are fairly inexpensive. (The distributor says that the retail is about $13.95 USD)

Yes, the one we have here in our store has the same printing error. The Fed CA additional arcs should be two [JKL] arcs. As for the D5, D5W and Kzinti BC, I am not sure because I don't have my Fed Com cards with me and I don't know those arcs off hand.

Hey, lookie that. RTF and pay attention to it and it will actually tell you. Heh.  :oops:
Now the question is, what range do I use? Or did I miss something in dual-mode weapon that says they must be same range?

Sweet. ::begins ponderings on modular ships::

Woo hoo! What is Archon?

I think that there isn't on the Kirov-class because it's the 'standard' Battlecruiser, whereas the New Jersey and Bismarck are both 'specifics'. I might be wrong, however.

I'm curious, if you plot a turn in advance, how did you run turn 1? Did the players have to plot two turns before turn 1 was run? Other than that question, I'd have to say it looks very nice, and sounds like it was great fun.

I'm pretty sure that there are weapon modifiers or ship attributes from Starmada Annex that would have represented some of those weapons better, but since I haven't acquired that yet - will have to see how the finances look later - I am making due with this.
The only things I'm pretty sure I need are the alternate movement rules from either Iron Stars (I assume...) and Dreadnoughts and the dual-mode fighters from Dreadnoughts. (While the Remora-class fighter airships are standard fighters, the Valefarre have two forms, one quite similar to the Remora and the other is a more manuverable mode, that sacrifices a bit of punch.
And I know the Hellfire cannon looks strange with a max range of *two* and area of effect, that's the closest I can come to represent a gout of flame erupting from the hull, similar to an SFB Mauler weapon. I *could* have put a minimum range on it so it could *only* fire at two hexes... but the shipbuilder only handles up to three modifiers and I think a fourth might be a bit excessive...

Hrm... that does not help me much as I do not have a copy of Starmada X. :-\
However, I do appreciate the response. Thanks/

The facing rule on phasers does not apply in Fed Com. While not as 'realistic' as SFB's is, it does make damage allocation much quicker.