A while ago, I completed an Excel to LibreOffice conversion -- see the attached file. A list of the changes is in the "Notes" sheet, so everyone can see what I did to fix the incompatible items from Excel. I left a sample ship in "Ship 1", so you can see how the Display and Drake sheets look. I had to compress the file to a *.zip format, since the LibreOffice formatted file, *.ods, was seen as an "invalid file type".

Enjoy!

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David

Thank you for re-posting the supplements.

+1 vote for supplemental books from the Admiralty Edition updated for Unity.

I've seen several requests for an OpenOffice version of DryDock or some other Unity spreadsheet.  I created an OpenOffice version of Unity DryDock 1.03.  It does have a few upgrades that reflect my own campaign and house rules for my Babylon 5-ish campaign:

1. I changed fighters (per a previous thread) to be a less expensive since I sequence their combat AFTER ship combat.  So those little fighters must brave any escorts and anti-fighter defenses to take their shots...
2. Changed terminology "Screens" to "Armor"
3. Added weapon ability Penetrating -- like Piercing, but affects Armor
4. Ship Design Sheet generator: Another addition of my own is an SDS using the graphical parts in Paul's builder, but put together in one place that auto-fill with your design and where a copy-and-paste will create new PDFs on my Mac.  This technique also works for the plain text SDS too.
5. Changed Tech Levels supported to -3 to +3

Those are all the changes I can think of for now.  So given all that, if anyone is interested, I can upload what I have as-is, since it would take too long to rip out all my modifications to have a purely Unity builder per the rules.  If anyone has feedback or error reports, please do let me know.  I would be happy to fix them.

I have not released the OpenOffice version for two reasons.  First, I am not done testing it with multiple ship designs.  Second, I customized my DryDock, and do not have a "standard" version:

* Changed Tech Level 2 to 3
* Renamed "Screens" to "Armor"
* Added Penetrating weapon ability, like Piercing but against Armor/Screens
* Added ship primary systems for critical hit effects: Bridge, Reactor, Life Support

Once I test what I have, I plan to create the standard version.  If anyone is interested, please just be a bit more patient.

Would you mind indicating the sheet, row/column and how you fixed these?  I would like to update my Excel and OpenOffice versions, and I am concerned that I would miss an item or two while attempting to find the problems you noted.  Thank you in advance!

JMS openly admitted that he did not completely understand (or even care) about military classifications.  This led to a confusion of B5 ship classes and military ranks in the show, and it also affects when folks like us want to create something representing the show we love. 

The Hyperion "cruiser" is more like a destroyer class, the Omega "destroyer" is equivalent to a heavy cruiser/light carrier (trades weapons for some fighters), and the Nova is truly a dreadnought.  Some may disagree, but that is how I see it with weapon and defense loadouts and compared to the general principles of US Navy ships.

I can understand your B5 conversion perspective.  Sometimes a system or concept does not translate well.  In that case, I just approximate it, but make sure that all converted ships remain relatively balanced as they were in B5Wars.  Since I also use the show as source material, I occasionally depart from the disagreeable bits of B5Wars. 

It's interesting that you mentioned using shields in your conversions, because I have also been experimenting with that as well.  I usually restrict shields to the more advanced races (First Ones, Minbari, Centauri, Earth Alliance -- post Shadow war). 

I like the idea of the Drazi super heavy fighter being a 1-hull ship.  Another idea is to use one of the Unity heavy fighter with an additional -1 penalty to hit, representing it toughness.  Just a thought.

Please continue posting your thoughts.  Those are some good ideas.  I am still converting the Unity Dry Dock from Excel to OpenOffice, so my new conversion work ground to a halt.  Soon though...

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Any news on Awakened Giant, WW2 in the Pacific?  I have been holding off buying Grand Fleets until it had WW2 support.  This is the primary expansion I am looking for.  Will there also be data cards and counters along with the scenarios?

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Thank you for starting the B5 thread for Unity.  I am also trying to convert and upgrade my B5 designs once I get my DryDock mods and conversion to OpenOffice completed.  Since I playtested and own both B5W v1 and v2 sets, I have a lot of source material as well as experimental designs.

I do agree with your decision to use screens/armor instead of shields.  That better matches most of the B5 ship designs.  My use of shields in designs were restricted to the First One races.  The Shadows had energy absorption tech, but that just uses Unity shields as well.

I experienced your exact same problem of weapon effects.  Therefore I created the Penetrating weapon trait (Pn1, Pn2) that has the same effects of Piercing, but does the extra damage to Screens/Armor.  The cost is the same as the equivalent Piercing level.  Dan can chime in if he feels that the Penetrating cost needs some modification.  I already have my version of Unity DryDock updated with the Pn1, Pn2 weapon traits.

What do you all think?

+1 on the estimated release date (ballpark, of course).

If OldnGrey is listening, at least get an early copy of the Unity ship builder.  I would not only like to add the "Ignores Armor/Screens" option, but also add the "ship display card pretty printer" that I added to my Nova ship builder.