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Not a baseball fan, but I still feel it worth applauding.
*clap*
I have about 6 episodes left in season 5 and I kinda feel the same way. With the large arcing plots pretty much finished, I really can't see how this will in on a high note. I should just finish wanting them...
-Bren
While most of Season 5 isn't up to the standards of the prior seasons, the final episode is excellent.
NOTHING could be as bad as Highlander II.....
One word... Zardoz
Anyway, I am perfectly willing to give this movie a fair chance. Some of the merchandising, on the other hand, makes wonder about the intellectual capacity of the people responsible.
Why did I click that link? Now I need to pour bleach on my eyes.
Binders do not bother me at all, as long as I don't eventually end up needing a 3 inch binder for the rules. I already have those on my shelf for a couple editions of SFB, and that is more than enough.
Color doesn't really matter to me.
5% may seem a bit harsh, but according to the forum index there are 13811 posts total (before I hit submit on this one).
That would be >690 posts with each term.
Unless it counts the 5% on a per-forum basis, in which case yeah it is harsh. 1157 in Defiance, so ~58 posts to get a word blocked.
cricket wrote:Blackronin wrote:What we can do is stop using humour, smiles and put less posts, I guess.
I'm not sure who the "high patents" are, but I haven't seen any dislike or animosity. If anything, there's more excitement and enthusiasm on these forums lately... I for one find it refreshing.
The only minor thing I've seen is that Dugan did ask that people stop calling him Admiral (or "Sir"), but that seems not to have stopped...
"Art Fairy" is ok, though...
So, "Admiral Art Fairy"?
What type of cookie do I get?
It was pretty easy to figure out. The break points are at N^2 * 10 posts (10,40,90,160,250,360,490,640,810,1000)
I'd love to see a conversion of SFB in it's earlier version with a shift toward TOS canon.
Something to keep in mind - there was very little actual ship-to-ship combat in TOS, and what there was was almost entirely shown from the perspective of the bridge crew. We didn't get to see much of the fights.
As such, much of the "TOS canon" in regards to the ship combat is purely speculation.
Jeez...
You Starmada types sure are a whiny bunch.
I'm glad we don't have to put up with that on the "historical" side of things.
:wink:
Kevin
You historical types just have different things to whine about 
Clancy Brown has a rather long list of credits. When looking through them, I noticed something I found moderately amusing.
In 1993 he did the voice of Rayden for an animated Mortal Combat series. The same character that was played 2 years later by Christopher Lambert in the live-action movie..
The question about "which weapon gets slagged?" reminded me of a house rule I was toying with. It would seem to make sense that if you score a hit, it would have to be on a weapon that FACES you (if one is available.) Anyone play it that way?
Both ways are perfectly justifiable, depending on both the nature of the weapons and what the damage is thought to represent.
If you are thinking of small turrets, and the damage represents severe damage to the turrets, then directionality of the damage matters.
If you are talking about a weapon that is largely internal, direction is irrelevant - you are smashing through about the same amount of hull to get to it from directions it can't fire as ones where it can. For a specific example, see the missile tubes in the Honor Harington books.
If the weapon damage is mostly blown breakers, severed power feeds, and things like that then direction is again not really an issue - power surges can flow around in all sorts of directions, and the power feeds aren't running along the outer hull (at least I hope not).
You have to decide what sort of weapon systems are in use in your setting and what level of damage the hits to them represent before you can make the decision. Also, if you decide that direction does matter then there is a good chance that you will need to decide that Damage Control can't fix weapon hits.
Perhaps it was Franz Joseph in the Star Trek Technical Manual, and thus SFB. But note that there is no Federation "battleship", just a Federation "Dreadnought" -- so the two can be seen as equivalents there. But at some point the latter came to mean "larger than a BB", at least in space combat games.
DN larger than BB isn't always the case. See Star Fleet Battles where BBs are larger than DNs.
As to the whole Inverted range-based ROF/PEN/DMG issue, I agree that weapons such as that should be allowed...but maybe make them into a piece of special equipment, like a spinal mount. I've never really heard or read of any weapon in SF that has a weapon getting more powerful as it goes along (I've sometimes thought of something like flinging a reactor thats meant to go critical, so the longer its in space the more damage it is going to cause), and I'd reckon any such weapon would be so large it would need to be mounted along the axis of a ship.
I can only think of one off the top of my head. Renegade Legion:Interceptor had some sort of weapon that did more damage at range than close in (the PSB behind it had far more B than most weapons, iirc). It wasn't, however, a huge weapon - it was carried by fighters.
In my opinion it really depends on the nature of the game.
Simple 1-off battle? Show the sheets.
Campaign related battle? Unless one side has some intell available to tell what the other ships consist of, only reveal things as they become obvious. In other words, as jimbeau said "You should know what your ship captains would know."
The wording of that section seems fairly clear to me.
By default, every ship has one included. If you for whatever reason chose not to have one on the ship, you gain extra SUs to reflect the space that it would have taken up.
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