If I hadn't spent the last two-three weeks doing a supplement, I'd have suggested that we could have done a supplement based along those lines (a naval/land/aerial supplement). However, as I've completed the design process and need only a few days to tie everything together, as well as the fact that I've based it on a Culture-like Orbital to justify some of the handwaves I made to put aerial vessels in the setting, I doubt that'll work...

Would you be looking for contributions of established work, or collaborations between a few or many of us?

Minor errata:

I noticed that in the Jump Point part of the document, the maximum hull size is 6, while in the description of the JG-1000, it is 4. The Jump Point section of the document is correct.

Clarification: Tonakri 1st Stage Vanguard units do have the flotillas on-board, but as they have just made the journey, and they're trying to protect their cargoes, they are not deployed until they've managed to fight off the local opposition and established a beachhead. I was going to create a scenario whereby each Tonakri ship would have a Tick or Tock and at the end of the battle, if the Tonakri had driven off the Icurnans, the number of Ticks and Tocks surviving would have determined what level of victory they achieved, but I decided not to.

Well, while I had attempted to generate debate, what I'm actually showing you is my creative 'process'. In the time between my post and now, I contemplated forgetting about this idea for a while because of the issues with scale until I hit upon an idea to do a sea, land and air setting with steampunk/dieselpunk Bolos and aircruisers making an appearance. Yeah, that all happened in a few hours yesterday... :oops: 

I also worked out how to do company-level ground forces, basically re-using the Mixed Flotilla rules from BtUC (the much-needed acronym for Breaking the Unbreakable Chain)--I worked out how much space each Elite company of a given type would need, then divided that up to give the maximum SUs for the sub-units in the company (working out to 31SUs). At the moment, I've got seven types of ground company, with a further three or more planned (these to be amphibious units)

And so, four months later, a new version of the document has been prepared. It includes launch rates for fighters and flotillas.

Rounding, maybe? If you were over by, say, .4 SUs, then it rounds down to 0, but you're still 'over' by those .4 SUs

This is what happens when you've got five minutes to spare and decide to play around with OldnGrey's shipyard spreadsheet...:D

(10004) 5M2S -class Breaking the Unbreakable Chain Human Sphere 10K Dreadnought
Nova TL: 2
Hull: 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 * 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 * 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Thrust: 4 3 2 1 1
Shields: 2 3 4 5 6
ECM: 5 4 3 2 1
Weapons: 0 1 2 3 4
[V]: 20x Capital Missile (Gid/Skr/Dx3/Prc) / [TT] / 10 - 20 - 30 / AD: 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0
   Mode2 (Pnp) / 2 - 4 - 6 / AD: 60 42 30 21 15 11 8 5 4 3 2 1
[W]: 40x PD Battery (Pnp) / [TT] / 1 - 2 - 3 / AD: 80 57 40 28 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2
[X]: 20x Assault Laser Cannon (P.O.C.) (Gid/Acr/Prc/Dx2) / [TT] / 5 - 10 - 15 / AD: 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0
[Y]: 10x Hypervelocity Rail Cannon (P.C.C.) (Pnp/Prx/Prc/Vlt) / [TT] / 4 - 8 - 12 / AD: 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0
[Z]: 20x Heavy Flak Battery (J.A./C.F.W.) (Bls/Gid/Acr/Prx) / [TT] / 3 - 6 - 9 / AD: 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0
   Mode2 (Pnp) / 1 - 2 - 3 / AD: 80 57 40 28 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2
[A]: 20x Fusion Torpedo Launcher (PoL) (Dfs/Prc/Dx3) / [TT] / 3 - 6 - 9 / AD: 20 14 10 7 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 0
Specials: Fire Control, Marines (40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1), Carrier (30)

I was thinking of the flotillas in my latest (and working-on) supplements, so something like the icons in your second post.

I must admit, it was a spur of the moment ask, and I didn't really think about how difficult it would be to do when I asked. Maybe I should stick to the design of supplements instead...:D

Yep. My main thought processes were along the lines of 'because each corvette would in essence be a 1.5 hull ship, you don't have to hit as many fire control stations, drive rooms etc to knock out a ship', combined with 'this'll give a slight bit of variety to flotillas, rather than them seeming like smaller or larger versions of the same ship'...

And I agree with you on Stealth. I went with ECM initially because it made the calculations just that little bit easier...

@cricket: thanks

@Blacklancer: Yeah, I know, but Carronade sounds so much better ( ), and my knowledge of medieval artillery isn't up to scratch (I did write out a list of old-style cannons in use before the Spanish Armada about five years ago, but one of my clear-outs might have binned it). I also didn't want to have to put in two different types of weapons whose effects were exactly the same. Maybe I should have. I think that if I change the name of the TL -2 weapons to 'Old Heavy Gun' and 'Old Light Gun' (the same as Heavy Carronade and Light Carronade), that makes it slightly better, but for the moment I'll leave as-is...:)

That's good to know. I have been tempted in sounding out some others for a collaborative project as it's getting harder to come up with more original material that isn't just a space opera setting...

That's one of the reasons, but also because that's always the way I've done my supplements, and it's easier to tinker around with WRT fonts, sizes etc--I can switch between Calibri and Courier. TBH, I'm not happy with the Courier font for the latest supplement, but too late now, I guess...

I can visualise a shape as well, and drawing on graph paper helps, but trying to transfer that to a computer screen is just too difficult. I can do simple plan views, but the degree of detail you do in your icons blows anything I can hope to do out of the water...

Two ideas:

Well, working it out, a single mine counter would have a CRat of 2 (ORat 5, DRat 1, square root is just over 2). How about adding a 50% surcharge to that, so it comes out at 3 CRat per mine?

Or if that doesn't work, go the B5Wars route and say that you've got to pay 50 CRat for the pleasure of having mines on the field of battle before you get any mines (the 50 CRat is the cost of having a minelayer visit the battlefield earlier), with mines being 2 CRat per counter. So if you want 20 mines, that would be 90 CRat.

Of course, you could combine both...

I've just noticed that I keep on using CRat instead of VPs...