The PS isn't working for me - its comping up as APS - is that the same?

-Tim

Isn't that a problem?  You can make your ships immune to enemy fighters with a combine score of 7 and that is also a serious problem for ships attacking.  If I look at most of the ships in the rulebook, unless they are a race that uses ECM, they will basically not be able to attack someone with a 7 shift.

If you want stealth and ECM to stack perhaps stealth should do something mechanically different - like add x hexs to the range between you?

-Tim

Really - wow, and still cost the same as doubling your BAS?

-Tim

@Barking Monkey

Yes, that sounds like it would work... that is if you know what your opponent is bringing and counter with that!

There is still going to be a rock/paper/scissors component to Nova, but I think the extremes have been brought in much closer to the norm than from AE.

-Tim

Well in AE the weapon arc was cheaper "G=FR" and you could also take slow and starship exclusive - so I think its come a long way!

Just like it would be funny to damage a plasma with a photon torp.   I think the generic rules are quite good as is, and definitely any universe specific stuff can be built into a particular supplement.

-Tim

Thanks!

It would be very interesting if gunboats could be grouped in to flotillas of 3 or so - just sayin' 

-Tim

Add a sentence on page 43 stating that ships must have a hull size of 3 or greater.

-Tim

@Underling - I agree with you - its just people will want to model weapons that are super huge and are not used agaisnt fighters - problem with starship exclusive is that it was too good a deal and for the most part you would never have used that type of weapon against a fighter in the first place - so the restriction was meaningless - in essense this is the same, but the discount is far less and justified by not totally ruling out attacking fighters with it.  You could also call this "Bad against fighters" and say its -1 to hit fighters (on top of the current -1) and price it at 0.95 or something - but I though having a +1 columns shift might be nice - makes a positive spin on the weapon.

@Cricket - I guess with rounding it is the same.  It could be 1.3, 1.35, 1.38 or whatever is appropriate to give a tiny little benefit.  You'd have to be careful with the discount though as people latch onto any savings they can.

Anyway I'm not advocating that this is an awesome trait or a must have.  Its just a suggestion if you want to re-implement "Starship Exclusive".  Instead of giving just a flat out discount and the caveat that you cannot attack fighters - a bonus to attack ships and a very minor discount on the price to reflect that they are not as good against fighters (or gunboats - should they ever exist).

-Tim

I like the idea of them being "carried" into battle.   In Star Fleet there were PFs that were towed by a mech link (a special tractor beam).  Now not saying we should model mech links, but essentially its being able to carry another ship for less space than it takes because its on the exterior of the ship.

Just be careful that gunboats are not getting the best of both worlds.  I know that one group (Warlords) implemented gunboats into Full Thrust and they ended up dumping them because they were too good. 

Oh ya, so these would also make the adaptation to SF even easier.  "interceptors" (the smaller ones) could be the 1 hull boats and the Fast patrol ships (PFs) could be the 2 hull variant.

-Tim

Cool stuff here with the scouts guys.  Having Scouts do some sort of EPM also would synergize quite well with implementing Scouts from Star Fleet.

You know.... if your opponent has neither escorts or ECM - then well still your scout does nothing... not that its bad - but maybe it would be good to give it a few more options to minimize this.  How about an option for scouts to "use their scout ability" to:

- give a bonus to detect cloaked ships?
- reduce penalty to fire through a dust cloud?
- reduce penalty to fire at a ship with stealth (or is that the same as EPM?)
- etc

-Tim