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The seekers in a dogfight must attack their opponent. Since the bombers cannot affect other fighters, they self-destruct without effect.
All of the files got corrupted when we switched hosts. I've been replacing them as needed.
I'll get to this one tonight.
I might experiment with allowing the torps to be launched as part of the weapons fire phase (i.e. you would get to launch them even if the launcher was destroyed in that turn).
I think this might be a good rules change.
Darren-
I will check to see whether RPGNow has the right version on the site. In the meantime, the only difference is that the edition from June '09 is missing the multiplier for "Crew-Killer" on page 15 -- it's x2.0.
This applies in all cases. If the ship has 0 shields, no impact roll is required.
I had just purchased a printed copy from ADB today via their website (because I neede to get Captian's Log too), do they have the update version of the book?
They should. If for some reason you get the uncorrected ship cards, email me and I will send you the revised cards as a PDF.
Also, when Annex first came out, I had gotten the pdf version from RPG Now. I noticed I had a note from them saying a new version was uploaded to them on 10/6, which is after the original released one that I bought. When I downloaded it, it had the same revsion number. Do you know what the difference was?
What revision number do you have?
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Am I just missing something in my calculations or is there a certain amount of fudge factor (proprietary math?) at play. I will happily fudge the numbers myself if that's the case, but if I'm missing something I'd like to find it, especially as it would allow me to post some of those ships onto the forum for others to use with reasonable confidence in the values.
There were small problems with the values in KA, because of some minor changes I made leading up to publication that didn't get reflected in the ship cards. However, I am not aware of any issues with RA?
Either way, a variation of even +/-10% is going to have very little impact on gameplay... so I wouldn't sweat it too much.
In black and white terms it would, by altering the VP conditions, absolutely "unbalance" a game.
You could, however, apply a point modifier to address this:
Poor: +10% / -20%
Fair: +5% / -10%
Average: None
Very Good: -5% / +10%
Exceptional: -10% / +20%
The first modifier is applied to your point limit, while the second is applied to your opponent's victory threshold.
Anyone who bought the original printing of Alien Armada and would like a PDF of the corrected ship sheets, please email me.
Home early, and on second thought, this is just wasted calories.
Not really. Glad to see the game can inspire some discussion along these lines. I do think some historical (or semi-historical) work can be done with QL.
During our game we had some questions about difficult terrain. If entering a hex counts as moving two, how do units with 0/1 speed manage?
This was actually an errata -- speed 0/1 units may enter a single hex of difficult terrain on an Advance order.
EDIT: I could see adding a rule that such a unit incurs a suppression marker...
Didn't the Indians play at Langston Field in the mid-50s? 
"Gneisenau" is really hard to type.
Anyone holding over from the first edition of Starmada (now 17 years ago!) will remember there were rudimentary morale rules in the game. Ever since, I've been wondering if it would be possible to include such considerations. Here's an idea:
FLEET MORALE
This rule is optional, and accounts for the effects of morale on the performance of a fleet. A fleet with good officers and training will fight on longer than one with poor leadership or little fighting spirit.
If using this rule, just before starting the first game turn, each player should roll two dice, adding the results together.
Then, consult the following table:
Roll Morale Modifier
2-3 Poor 80%
4-5 Fair 90%
6-8 Average 100%
9-10 Very Good 110%
11-12 Exceptional 120%
The resulting percentage is applied to the number of VPs the opposing side needs to score in order to claim victory.
1) For flotillas do you apply an IMP>1 to only one of the ships or does each successful impact roll result in one kill?
Each point of impact scored on a flotilla automatically destroys one starship in the group (i.e. causes a hull hit)—no damage roll is necessary. This means that weapons with a damage value (DMG) greater than 1 waste this capability when attacking flotillas.
2) Do apply shield modifying traits when rolling to impact against fighters (such as piercing, ignore shields etc)?
Yes.
Does that apply to Flotillas as well? I had been loosing entire flotillas to high IMP weapons and was wondering if I was doing it right.
For flotillas, ROF and IMP always apply full value, but DMG>1 is wasted.
Trying something different for GA: Castles of Steel... this would replace the 2" x 3.5" data cards.
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Dan, I was just noticing that when you do a search within a topic, it appears to me that I am only getting results from things posted after the server migration. Can someone else verify this, and if it is the case, can someone please please please fix it!
Just re-created the search index.
For custom fighter flights with a Defense score greater than 0, do you role one die per hit (to destroy them) or one die per hit multiplied by the IMP attribute of the weapon? The basic rules (Section 5.3) are quite clear that IMP and DMG are wasted on fighters - just wanted to see if that still applied with Section F.1 in play.
You never roll more than one IMP die vs. fighters.
Since the engine track is more or less evenly distributed, you reach the endpoint (0 effective engine rating) with the same amount of damage.
This is not correct.
Consider the Seltorian CA, with engine boxes of 5-5-5-4-4-3-3-2-2-1-1. If this ship (undamaged) attempts emergency thrust, it would roll 5 dice. Let's say the dice come up 1, 2, 5, 5, and 6. You would gain a net of 2 engine points (temporary +3, permanent -1). If you instead checked off a damage box, the net would be +3. If the dice come up 1, 1, 5, 5, and 6, the net gain per the rules would be +1, while the damage box method would still yield a gain of +3.
And what about the other notes?
See the new sticky thread on AA errata.
Thanks for going over all these.
Below are the errors that crept into Alien Armada:
pp. 25-82: Nearly all ships had their transporters omitted. All Base Stations should have 12 marines. All Large Q-Ships' phaser-3 firing arcs should be [EF][EF].
p. 38: Klingon E7 should not have probes. This reduces its cost to 299.
p. 44: Kzinti Police Cutter should have only 6 marines. This reduces its cost to 124.
p. 49: Neo-Tholian Frigate should have only 3 marines. This reduces its cost to 143.
p. 50: Orion Battlecruiser, shield facets should be 3-3-3-2-2-3.
p. 55: Orion Double Raider should have 12 marines. This increases its cost to 231, or 303 with a cloaking device.
p. 58: Orion Medium Raider should have 2 disruptors with firing arcs [AB][AB].
p. 62: Romulan Small Q-Ship, plasma-Fs should be plasma-Ds. Romulan Large Q-Ship, plasma-D firing arcs should be [ACE][ACE] [BDF][BDF]. Cost should be 167.
p. 70: Seltorian Light Dreadnought, phaser-1 firing arcs should be [AB][AB] [ABC][ABC] [ABD][ABD] [ACE][ACE] [BDF][BDF]. This increases its cost to 303.
The Tholian war cruiser has two different prices (290 & 292). Although that's not a great deal, which one is the good one?
They're both "good". One is equipped with Photons, the other with Disruptors.
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