Morning!

> Correction:
>

This will definitely have to be changed at some point in the ship
builder. Great catch!

> Question:
>
> How exactly are the EDT drives for ships calculated in terms of SUs?
> The formula in the book seems to imply that the drives are incredibly
> small--are these extra space units that are included on top of the
> base 10% for a Starmada ship, are they independent from the
> hyperdrive in Starmada construction (i.e., you get 10% back for non-
> hyperdrive, then pay for the EDT drive), or am I missing something
> completely?

You got it. As far as space is concerned they are seperate systems,
and yes, more efficient than the standard hyperdrive. It is the sensor
systems that tend to eat up most equipment space. It can add economic
cost to a ship too which is a consideration.

Starmada Cost:
The cost for these devices is much different than the normal Starmada
Hyperdrive. The reasoning is that some ships are capable of moving
other ships with them into the EDT field.

EDT Drive Cost (Rounding Up): ((Hull ^ 0.33) ^2) x 1.5

Economic Cost: +1 EP for every 200 SU this drive occupies.

   -Jay

Thank you Arrigo. The PM is on the way!

This actually doesn't sound too disimilar from Royal Fleet Operation, an upcoming operational starship board game from us at VBAM. It is in playtest if you guys want to give it a look.

I still have those if you want me to send them along. I just did all the drawings in AI, then put them on a pretty basic counterset with firing arcs.

   -Jay

We are moving on up from our current house to our new home in May!

Dan,

   You have a few baseball fans out here . I would be happy to discuss and/or playtest for ya.

    -Jay

I like what you have created so far, but where are the Chouka and their uber-energy plasma?

I am surprised to see you put the Circasians so low on the Macro tech chart, but I suppose it makes sense if you are going to have them evolve up to the EW itself. Their tech development from their Chouka War machine was part of their "escalation" if I remember right. That is what, 10 years away for them? I would be happy to fly them against any of the other races using the KEB system and let you know how they do (Boltians, Kuissians, and so on).

One more question; are you using the full KEB tech system we talked about some months ago where a tech breakthrough must be achieved for each KEB element seperately?

   -Jay

So would you guys like to see something similar to Starmada Edition? More or less? Ground warfare? It seems with various nations on Earth involved it is hard to get away from the hypothetical England attacks France type game. We could tie this into the other thread and give everyone Steam Mechs .

   -Jay

Many of the conversions and campaign mechanics are pretty straightforward and are honestly not too far off from what you saw with Starmada. There is a lot less special equipment so we may have to tone down the tech rules in some areas.

Right now the Merchant Wars really focuses on new equipment (which I can exploit in the tech rules), and a string of conflicts over materials and claims. We could use a solar system nodal map for this, and just set a time limit to control the most possessions and scoring damage. It wouldn't be a traditional campaign, but a fun place to make strategic decisions and play Iron Stars.

The real campaigns would probably require us to map pseudo maps for europe and the rest of the world so these ships could actually fight over the places that produce man and materials for these ships. Of course this all gets very interesting once we introduce other inter-stellar powers.

    -Jay