First, i'd like to see the starmada book PDFs display correctly on the iPad.   I think they have example and art images stored in JPG2000 format which the ipad is unable to display.  This makes using the PDFs as a reference on the ipad less than ideal.

A ship builder, fleet manager would be great too.  Something that you can mark off damage as it occurs during the game and flip between ships in your fleet.  It would be nice if there was a version for all the pre-built ships from SFU as well since I don't think they can be built in the standard shipbuilder.

I brought this up with admiralty edition came out.  for the most part pictures and example graphics don't show up on the ipad.  I've tried with the built-in viewer and a few add-ons although most of the add-ons are based on webkit like the built-in one is so I'm guessing any webkit pdf rendering would fail to show the pics.

I've generated a number of test PDFs in an attempt to determine the problem but everything ive sent to it has worked.    What are you using to do your PDFs?  and what format are your images in? 

I would love to get these PDFs on my ipad in a workable form.

The fast ships in both klingon armada and romulan armada have always been a bit of an issue with me.  They are faster in FC because they have slightly more engines AND half the heavy weapons of their slower counterparts.  The end result is more power to spend on speed and thus in combat they are considerably faster, often able to keep 24+ speed with weapons armed. 

I think when they were converted to starmada that probably only the engine total was taken into account and while slightly better than the average cruiser its not enough to warrant a speed increase...  but when you take the ships energy curve with its reduced weapons load out into account it should definitely be at least one faster than the average cruiser.

Just my 2 cents.   

Alchemist

A couple of comments...

New Jersey Class BC
The only firing 4 photons at once is a carry over from the FC/SFB ship description and I believe in those games the new jersey can only fire 4 photons per turn.   This kept the new jersey from being pretty much a full on dreadnought firepower wise.  In KA you can just assume that its too much detail for that level.

Fast Cruisers
In SFB/FC the cruisers with the Fast designation usually had a wee bit more power available so they could afford to move faster than normal ships with weapons armed.  Im not sure that intent translated well to the new book as the 'fast' cruisers in KA have the same speed as the rest of the cruisers for that race.  Giving them a +1 to speed might reflect the role of these ships better.

Alchemist

I like the idea of a weapon that hits with a static or high energy discharge that arcs from hull to hull across adjacent hexes much like electricity arcs to ground.   It has plenty of combat applications... keeping opponents from using tight formations, possible backfires on friendly ships, etc.

Id treat it alot like the repeating trait, except it can hit multiple targets...   it would work like this...

- make an initial attack on a target ship.
- if the ship was hit, roll an attack against each ship in an adjacent hex (both friendly and enemy)
- for each of those ships hit roll an attack for any ships adjacent to them and so on.

Each ship may only be struck once by the attack to keep things from becoming a recursive nightmare to resolve.

Attack rolls on adjacent ships would continue to resolve all active arcs.

Alchemist

Personally id like to see flight size be open ended on the low and high end.

Firing a single missile, launching a single missile or a 2 fighter CAP for example.

Id also like decaying strikers, not sure how to point it though...  for example a flight size XX striker flight that looses X strikers in the end phase of each turn after launch.   This would let things like plasma torpedos be created... powerful weapons that lose capability the longer they travel.

Close.  Except instead of having a special rule doubling the long range band you just use the existing C.3  which allows for bases that dont have better weapons than ships, and those that do.  Its all depends on how the base is constructed.

Alchemist (aka another dan)

This would provide a nice way to subdue the usefulness of drones in the KA which I like, and gives tractors a valid combat function. 

I do think that if a ship moves more than five hexes away from the fighter during the movement phase the tractor should be broken and the token removed so the fighter flight could act normally in the fighter phase.   

Although there are extensive tractoring rules in SFB/FC all the ship versus ship interactions on movement,  death dragging fighters, etc. just over complicate things for a fleet based game.

Dan

Thanks for a look at the updated D7.  Everything else in FC is pretty much based on the balance of these two ships and their weapons so its nice to see how they compare.  I like the general layout of the new D7, but have a few comments when comparing it to the CA and when comparing the FC CA and D7.

1. The aft shield is too strong,  it should be 2-1 like all the other shields except the front.   Looking at the D7 in FC its forward shield is 30 and all the rest are 22.   

2. Not sure why the overload disruptor has a higher to hit than the regular disruptor, their targeting is identical in FC.  Id rather see the overload at 4+ and 2 Imp, 2 Dmg.   Same to hit as the standard disruptor and a little less damage possible overall.

Everything else looks good, I like it.

Dan

Thanks for the look at the new CA.   Looks like special equipment changes (tractors, etc),  phase I firing arc changes, photons reduced to 15 range.  Overloads reworked with carronade.   Can anyone point me to carronade?  I know it was in starmada X but for the life of me I cant find it in any of my books (starmada, imperial, dreadnoughts, hammer&claw).

Dan

The Fed CA and Klingon D7 data cards have been online for a couple weeks in this forum.  Look for the Federation CA datacard thread.   They use rules from the admirals edition and Starmada Iron Stars (faceted shields).