It would be interesting to see all three empires from FC: War and Peace brought over to both Admiralty and Nova editions of Starmada. Perhaps alongside the ships from FC: Reinforcements Attack for good measure?

Now that the rules for particle cannons and shield crackers are in print, I'd hope that the two M81 Galaxy Pirate ships (the OGR and OGD, shown for SFB and FC in Captain's Log #40; there are half-inch counters for the two ships in FC: War and Peace) could make it over to Starmada sometime.

Do you plan to convert Tau guided missiles, too?

Now that FC: War and Peace is out, the potential Andro rule sets that could be considered as a basis for conversion is increased, plus the layout that Star Fleet Armada modules mean that you'd only need one other module to pair its ship list with to have a range of Andromedan, ISC and Vudar ships ready to go.

FC: Hydran Attack has rules for using Aegis, albeit as a 'Borders of Madness' rule not applicable to vanilla Federation Commander. (It was put there to support the escort ships from Booster #92, but technically you can still use those ships and just not let them use Aegis).

In that game, you can use an Aegis-equipped ship to shoot at seeking weapons which have impacted against a friendly ship (with phasers if within four hexes, or with anti-drones within two). There is no distinction between Limited and Full Aegis the way there is in SFB.

As well as SFB, I might suggest having a look at the Hydran Stinger rules from Federation Commander, as well as the prototype Borders of Madness rules for certain fighters from a recent (I forget which) Captain's Log.

(Even without separate carriers, FC has plenty of Stingers that the Hydrans use - be it the Stinger-2s with Phaser-Gs in the Main Era, or the Phaser-3-armed Stinger-1s from the Middle Years Hydran ships in Briefing #2.)

In both games, fighters are treated as individual units - akin to how shuttles are currently in Klingon/Romulan Armada. They have certain weapons they can fire more or less continuously (usually their phasers) while some have heavy weapons that have to be recharged/reloaded on board a carrier (in the case of the Hydrans, the fusion beams on their Stingers).

In SFB, there are more details as to what types of fighters are around (there are many) and how different types of carriers or escorts can service and operate fighters. FC does not go into such details, simply referring to the Energy Points needed to reload Stingers (I don't recall off of the top of my head how they describe re-loading drones in the BoM rules) and going from there. Plus, there are things like dogfight ratings in SFB, which aren't a factor in FC.

One idea - and it's only an idea, mind - is to have a look at the layout set for the Romulan and Kzinti carrier box sets. Each includes miniatures representing a carrier, two of its escorts, and their associated fighters. (The Romulan fighters are divided between superiority and assault fighters - I think, thought I might be wrong - while Kzinti fighter minis all look the same.) If boxes like those get done later for other empires, they could similarly provide a handy means of tying into any future Starmada module.

Oh, and when it comes to other empires' fighters, The Gorns use Federation-designed fighters (with Skolean pilots, since a Gorn can't fly a fighter) while the Lyrans, LDR and Seltorians use the same fighter design as the Klingons (and in the case of the Selts, with mercenary pilots flying them). The Vudar used to fly Klingon fighters before developing their own designs, too. I can't remember off-hand if the WYN Cluster can use Kzinti (or Klingon) fighter designs, though.

Nice.

Did you make use of the carronade option against the Romulans, too?

When I saw this thread title, I was thinking more about Andromedan satellite ships (which most mothership configurations can carry within internal hangar bays) than PFs (that are almost always carried externally) - but there might be room for both one day.

The ships in the pic are just samples from the range of Romulan ships in the Star Fleet Universe - the Romulans are quite popular as a faction (considered one of the big three, if perhaps not quite as popular as the Feds and Klingons).

Besides, one thing worth noting is that the Romulans went into modularisation with their third-generation Hawk-series of ships - partly as a means of not completely losing the run of an economy already strained by the upgrades of their Eagles, and the conversions of their Klingon-built Kestrels. That still leaves a number of different hulls to build, but lets them make the most of the hulls once built.

I hope Romulan Armada will be a success, and keep the door open for further Armada modules to show up further down the line. There are plenty more ships and empires still out there!

I mentioned this over on the discus BBS, but the one thing which stands out for me is that the ships seem to be a bit disjointed in terms of orientation.

If the ships were made to look like they were all coming from a single point (or small area) of background space, it might flow a little better.