Id much rather have more people banging heads in multiple areas than just one group.

Just join up to the SXShipyard group, if you want. The group needs some life injected into it...:D

Typically, most designers design their weapons witha fairly good range--i.e., 12-15 hexes. Lighter weapons (i.e., those for taking out fighters) have a shorter range (6-9 hexes). 18 hexes are mainly used for extremely long-ranged weapon, while 3 hexes tend to be used either for really pathetic weapons (i.e., those you might expect on a freighter) or if a designer feels that the carronade and the shockwave systems don't fit their view of a particular weapon.

However, I use 18 hexes fairly often as my long-ranged weapons, with 15 and 12 hexes being for slightly weaker weapons, or weapons which I feel are short-range (plasma cannons, for example)

Anti-fighter weapons tend to range 9 hexes for me--because I like them that way. I go for 6 hexes if I feel that I need more AF power at shorter ranges. I don't use 3 hexes much, except, possibly, as weapons on vessels with a HIGH speed

Well, first off, you'll be disappointed--there is no set list of weapons.

The reason? Well, lets take an example. I might think a heavy rail cannon is an extremely powerful weapon that can cause immense damage to anything it hits, while you might think of a heavy rail cannon as being a weapon that can cause some damage, but you think that lasers cause FAR more damage. You see the problem? What I think a weapon might be is different from what you think a weapon might be.

Generally, the weapons in Brigade are fairly normal--most people design vessels of the sizes in Brigade, and their weapons are fairly standard. I tend to design far heavier weapons, just because of my luck at rolling dice--if Im able to penetrate the enemy shields I know the ship will hurt...:D

Heres a general feeling of what I feel weapons should be like. Please disregard them if you wish--as Dan says, its a free game, and you can tinker around with it as much as you want...:)

Rail Cannon: Long range, fair accuracy, Extra Hull Damage, Re-Rolls PEN.
Plasma Cannon: Shorter range, accuracy better/worse, Range-Based DMG, Extra Hull Damage
Laser: Long range, good accuracy, Re-Rolls TH

And so on and so forth.

Hehe...:D

Only problem is is the dreaded dice of doom. Theres nothing like you throwing ten drones at a target...and see only one cause damage. Thats why I like big guns. Once they hit, you know the enemy is hurting...:D

Thanks for that...:D

Im tempted to go similar to what you said, Tyrel, but because Im a greater fan of Discworld, I might have Ankh, Morpork, Klatch, XXXX, Agatea, The Hub (possibly for a system with multiple jump lanes), Muntab, Quirm and Pseudopolis

The ship designs...wow. Brilliant. Got me wanting to get the book just so I can see what 'Heavy Basing' means...:D

The history is okay, but if I may make a suggestion? I think the history is too long. Good, yes, but if you cut it down slightly it might be a good idea. I'll leave it up to others to explain my viewpoint, or if no-one else does, I will tomorrow, once I've thought about it for a while.

Some of us don't like fighters! Like me, for instance. If it aint got big guns, I don't want it! I want weapons that cripple cruisers with a single salvo, not some pop-guns on my new dreadnought!

However, drones are great...:D

There are some posts here or on the main page. However, I'll try to recite from my memory:

1) Volatile weapon ability would be a 0.7--in other words, the SU cost would be multiplied by .7

3) Very simple: multiply the SU cost by the Expendable modifier and then by the number of shots you want to hold. Note that a weapon with 5 or more shots actually takes up more room than a unlimited ammunition weapon, however.

On the second day of Christmas my Admiral gave to me

Two fighter bays

And a heavy plasma cannon battery