Excellent!  I will seek these novels out when I get back to Jacksonville later in the week.

Hello again everyone!
I am visiting S.Fla again soon and we are playing Starmada S:NE Sunday April 14th at 1pm at Gaming Glenns store on Stirling Road in Davie, near Fort Lauderdale. All are welcome!  Bring your ships or use designs that I have made of the Minbari, Federation, Klingons, etc. 8-)
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Facinating. 
My CR=600 point Four-Turret-DNs now have 46 Hull & 46 Armor.  They have a speed=6 and most weapons shoot out to 18 which is the max range that we let ships can have among the people I game with... 8-)
I have DDs that have 13 hull & 13 armor, speed=7 and a CR=150
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Needless-to-say, playing Starmada down here @ GamingGlenn's store is a great deal of fun.   
We played three games during my short visit down here. 
I am returning to NE Fla, Jacksonville tomorrow, but will be back down here in the middle of April.

If a weapon has Dfs, when it shoots at fighters, drones, etc it is treated as if it does Not have Dfs for those shots.   Thus at long range this weapon has -1. 
BTW, I give all my AA weapons the weapon trait Repeating instead of pinpoint to get extra AA shots, and extra shots against hostile ships that are very close.
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A gaming buddy and I were looking at Battleships Armada this afternoon.  We had  few questions:

Can all of expendible seekers in the Drone Racks on the Federation/Klingon/Khazinti ships fire at once?  If so it will be a massive barrage that would resemble a salvo of Capital-ship missiles launched from External-0rdance Racks on Starfire ships...

I was wondering why the Phaser Fours don't fire out to 24 or even 30 hexes?  In SFB, these base-mounted weapons had the longest range.

I like the idea of making Armor into "Shields" and then using half for Front Shields, the FF arc & the other half for the Aft Shields covering nearly all of the AX arc.  Does this change the cost of a ship, that is, can all ships use this option?

I was couriouswhyno weapons have the Acr weapon trait?  It would allow these ships to have 1/3 leassweapons with the same firepower & cost.  It also allows gamers to roll fewer dice.  All of my personal ships have Acr.

All in all, this Battleships Armada is impressive.  I like the way webs are done.  Brilliant!

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Agreed.
But during a war between hostile forces, one side could design a special attack force to deal with a formitable Station that is in the way.  It would be similiar to the armored ships/floating batteries that the French designed to bombard Russian forts during the Crimean War.  They saw service & got the job done.
(These ships/floating batteries lead to the building of Ironclad warships by the French, then the British just before the USA's Civil War...)

This is a good question; in earlier editions there were special rules.
My friends & I here in Florida limit the range on shipboard weapons to 18.  Only bases, etc can have range 24 or 30 weapons.  I would consider putting overthrusters on a base if I made one, with lots of fighters and drones!

That is a good idea on disruptors.  As I recall, many Klingon ships had DERFACS added for that upgrade(?)
If you make any bases, let the Phaser4s shoot out to either 24 or even 30. 
:idea: For Orion ships and Nimble ships, try Stealth 2 or even Stealth 2 to simulate that.
For Scouts, give them ECM because their special sensors could be used to make them harder to hit.  Also ECM in S:NE can be used as ECCM, much the same was as special sensors in SFB.
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I played Star Fleet Battles from the days of the original rules + the three expansion books, thru the Captions Edition, etc.
:idea: Here are some ideas I have for your conversions.
Gives Drones the Slow option for the early years and weak, regular speed for middle times, and Fast with strong for the later drones.
Give ships permanant directional shields with the front one being one stronger, the other front ones being the level paid-for, the the three rear ones being one less.  Refitted ships could get one level stronger.  take for example, the Federation CA.  When you design it, pay for shields that are 4+.  Then let the front shield #1 be 3+, shield # 2 & #6 will be 4+  and the three rear ones will be 5+.    When this Fed CA takes a shield hit, its shields then become 4+ in front, 5+ for #2 & #5, and 6+ for the three rear ones.
For SFB ships I made, I gave the Phaser 1s range=18, with Sct, or U could use Dfs.  The Photon Torps had range 15, slow, Dx3.
For Klingon ships, the Disruptors had range 18, Dx2 and their phaser2s had range 12 witn Sct or Dfs.  The Phaser 3s were range6 with Sct or Dfs.
I hope this helps.
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Here is the latest design that I use in Jacksonville. I made it on Feb 7.
I use it to represent any of the USA's 4-turret BBs from USS Nevada thru USS West Virginia. Also can be any of the UK's QE or Revenge BBs.
Four-Large-Turret Battleships, CR=529
Thrust=5, no Shields, no ECM
34 Armor + 37 Hull
WEAPONS ARCS RANGE ATTACK DICE -4  -6  -8 
8× Plasma Cannon (Acr/Dx2) [FX4][FX4][AX4][AX4] 6-12-18 ---------8 6 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
10× Chain Guns (Acr/Dfs/Rpt)          [TT]                    1-2-3 -------10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
4× Turbo Lasers (Acr/Rpt)          [PS]                     5-10-15 ---------4 3 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
2× Mass Drivers (Acr/Cts/Sct)     [CD2][CD2]           5-10-15 ---------2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

By making them a little smaller with a lower CR, I can play more of these.  So far they are working. 8-)
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We played three games of Starmada here in Jacksonville yesterday (Saturday 2/16).  Although fighters were not used, my friend in the Navy did have a cruiser that carried 18 flights of drones, which he launched three flights at a time.  Using the changes we made, these were brutal when they attacked.  Fortunately my ships have good AA, but when he fired the drones on a turn that he had innitiative before the defending BB could shoot, these drones really pounded the BB blowing off 2/3 of its armor.  I think the changes we made have "fixed" fighters, drones, and shuttles without the need to change any of the ship designing programs, nor do any changes to/recosting of the printed ships in any of the books. 
IMHO, this is a better fix than trying to change/lower the cost of fighters because that would mean that all of the ship designing programs will have to be changed, and all of the printed ships in the suppliments, books, etc. will have to be changed too.