KLlingon and Romulan armada (built on Nova rules)? Although ownership of the Starmada Nova Rulebook from Majestic Twelve Games is strongly recommended, it is not required: the essential Starmada rules are included!

Alien Armada is not a stand-alone product; ownership of either Klingon Armada or Romulan Armada is required. The Starmada Admiralty Edition Core Rulebook is also recommended, but not required.

Whats the diff between admiralty, and Nova?

what do I need to use the klingon book and romulan book with Admiralty?

I am looking for a space combat game to integrate into my space roleplaying game. Im running a space game (hero games, scifi genre). I own starmada most versions. I dont like traveller ship combat systems, or mayday.  Full thrust, though I own a very old version, is also out.

Game should include:

1) Facing
2) damage allocation to systems
3) ship figures
4) not to complicated to learn (Star Fleet Battles is out)[/code]

I like starmada and it does offer facing, but it doesnt offer facing for taking damage depending on what side you are hit from.  I am not crazy about traveller ship to ship combat.  My game doesnt use shields, but i could incorporate them.    Scale is one or two (millenium falcon sized ships or freetraders) vs fighters and up to frigates to start.    Game should be relatively easy to find/purchase.

(this is a responses I got from Star-ranger.com Stick with Starmada and use one of the variants that offer directional defenses and damage. There were quite a few of them over the years, some official, some homebrew. The MJ12 forums (and the company itself) look pretty inactive last I looked, but you could probably get some specific rules suggestions out of the lurkers over there (including Dan Kast).)

Do you have any ideas for me?

I played nova, and some time ago also played admiralty edition.

To make a long story short, i was cleaning up my house and found starmada compendium and starmada X in a pile.

I read through them both and found that starmada compendium was quite fun.
for example 1 always misses 6 always hits, and  also causing damage on the side that you are facing.

So, I would like to run some people through it and get use to building ships again.

Is there a shipbuilder available for starmada compendium?

Also Im looking for some b5 and trek ships built with compendium edition in mind

any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

First off your rules very compact. I read the first 14 pages straight through.

I have to ask you about the assumption I made about applying damage.

First: Page 14 talks about Damaged and crippled.
I am assuming that 'Damaged' means each time a ship is damaged by a single weapon bank. Then you take that point of damage that got through the shields and run it through the checks on page 14.

Now there is the word Crippled. I am assuming that Crippled means no more thrust.  This is a problem for me because on the right colum of page 14 it says never check off the last thrust die, weap die, ecm die, and shield die.

So? how does a ship become crippled.

Page 13: says damage is applied to a column of Hulls, then spills into armor.  So if a space lance rolls 3 (fives and sixes) damage and they get through the hields, 2 hulls are removed and then spills over into the amor... simple enough.

Then we go to page 14 where it says make a series of damage checks. ok.... now that we have 3 points of damage from page 13, we start rolling down the 4 checks on the left column.

Based on the way its written for each point of damage I make 4 checks ( weap, thrust ecm, shld). So I will roll 12 dice. Ignore sixes.   3 hit points of damage ends up doing 3 sheilds, 2 ecm, 2 thrust, 4 weapons.   Most of the ship is now gone, except for the last shield, ecm, thrust, weap.

The we continue on to the next column that says Maximum of 2 damage checks... what what?? huh?   At this point im very confused.  Do you have a sample complete combat somewhere?  the rules are very compact... maybe a bit too compact. great product though. I hope to play it with real people soon    REgards, Joel

i looked at the book and tried to do the following calculation. maybe you can help me figure out whats wrong?

log with  (subscripted) sqrt (.5)

which looks to me like the log of square root of .5
on  my microsoft excell spread sheet 
log(sqrt(.5))

it comes out to -0.15051499783199.

armor score  = log (sqrt(.5)) *((5+8)/8)*-1

0.24458687147698

ive done this calc over and over... it always comes to the same thing.

whats wrong?

I just put this in the marketplace. Don't yell too loud for the cross post. I hope you'll forgive me.

WTB: Sovereign Stars first or Sec Edition.
Not the Twilight Imperium version.

I lost my game. I looked everywhere.

I really need a copy, to buy or to borrow. Ive had it since it first came out and I am very sad about it..

Please email me if you can give yours up or allow it to be borrowed.

Joel
runescience@yahoo.com

I found some folks to play with after work. I am explaining the compendium edition.

How much information do you share about your ship during a combat?

Do you show sheets? do you announce banks down?  Without weapons?

Sheilds down? Immobillity?

Do tell?

Starmada admiral edition - Movement probs.

Hi. I bought the rules, I read the movement section. I am still quite perplexed. I even downloaded that jar thing. now Im frustrated and perplexed.  I did spend large parts of today trying to read thru these 3 pages of movement.

Does any one have more tutorials on it?

If you are using newtonian rules, shouldn't a ship be able to go indefinitely
Is newtonian rules the same as vector rules.

I've played tri planetary years ago, so I understand vector movement.

to go indefinitely forward at a constant speed with no acceleration,
how is that reflected? What do i do? just dont plot anything?

There is a severe grammar error that is registering with my wife and I that is preventing me from understanding the rules fully.

"the difference of x and y", it means "x – y", not "y – x".

on page 17 "Diff between speed in prev turn, and its current speed plus the amount of movement between the 2 turns. "

you show as being  6-5 (net 1)  and it should be 5-6 (net negative 1) by math standards of writing subtraction problems."  neg 1 plus 3 is a final thrust req of 2 not 4.

and what about a plain old U turn?

what if we are going at speed 6, and we just plot a U by itself?  The thrust requirement is? prev speed and current speed? whats the current speed? im just doing a U turn? U by itself doesnt have a speed.

if i am going at heading 0 degrees at speed 2, I need a speed 4 maneuver to get me 2 speed in the other direction. how do I plot it?

And a last question.
Do you still have to have a foward separated by 2 turns.  is this still illegal from the last versions of starmada?  pp2 or pp or 1pp
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