One of the things I was hopping to do with starmada is to lower the number of ships because when playing the game you easly  out number any of the stories and you ability to keep track of what going on so fewer ships would be one of the goals.

you want a game the encurage combat than Starfire your game.  the main issiue with the current version of starfire is the system and ship construction rules Starmada fixes that.  Income and resource allowcation is done with an free excel spread sheet.  I have play all version of starfire and my group major problem is keeping people from jumping ahead. VBAM just does not make any sence to many game ran political rules.  I like the ideal of addption starmada for starfire because I believe that the ship construction and combat will solve many of the current problems.  anyone wants to talk about it and help me with it can cantact me at the "starfire Starmada project " on facebook.  I await the new edition because from what has been said it may solve some of my problems

How about Starmada Sky Marsal Edition

Thank you for the impute now here is another a weapon mod not a battery mod that lets the weapon target all but one arc.  think of it as a missile that fly fast enough that it is a direct fire weapon not a seeker.  but it still tracks it just can't track thru the engine exhaust.  so a 300 deg arc.