Not sure what you mean by "the thought behind Ammo"...

My intent was to mimic the values from Starmada X: i.e. an expendable weapon takes up 20% of the space of a normal weapon, with a scalable divisor for the ORAT calculation.

Unfortunately, the equation I put in the sourcebook doesn't do what I thought it would. I'm pretty sure the revised one does...

Hello everyone!

I Noticed that the newer SAE Ship designer version 2.0 has Point Defense and AntiFighterBatteries as Special Equiptment options.  :shock: 
Does the Point Defense exist in SAE?  And if it does, does it block all IMP rolls of 1,3,5 as it did in Starmada"X"?  Can it be combined with shields, or screens?
Do AntiFighterBatteries exist in SAE?  Do they work as they did  in Starmada"X"?  I guess that if they did, and a 1 was rolled, and if the fighter had shields (whew!), that the AFB hit would have to penetrate the shields of the fighter in order to destroy it. (?)
Or is the presense of AFB & PDS in the new v2.0 a misprint?

Confused in Jacksonville, Fla, USA  :?
Steven Gilchrist

Excellent!
I ordered a book copy of the ISS Book several days ago. 
But, I wanted to know about AFBs and PDS, so I have just ordered, and downloaded the PDF version of these ISS rules. 
I am printing them out now   

Steven Gilchrist

I just tested both the Shipbuilder and the Shipyard.

It is possible to cut and paste all of the text in one go by selecting all of the text cells at the same time.
ie
Type: Her Maj's Space Sphere Bedford, Cavor Class, Imperial England Space Ball  (9)
Hull: 1
Engines: [TL0] 2                       
Weapons
Battery X:   Elephant Gun (K) TL0 [1/2/3, 5+, ROF:1 IMP:1 DMG:1, Non–Piercing ] Ammo:(4)
ABCDEF           
Special Equipment
Armor Plating  Cargo (10) :
Weapons :1[X], 2[X], 3[X], 4[X], 5[X], 6[X]

OK, I left some space to tidy up the text On the Shipyard sheet before printing or transferring as a block of text. However, this was all cut and pasted into notepad in one go.

Putting it all into one cell is thankfully not needed. It would be a hell of a job to sort out if changes were needed.

Paul

Okay, I guess I just pasted into an application that was "too smart" (Apple's Pages word processor) which reproduced the table. It works if I paste into something like Emacs.

You mention the Shipyard. Where do I find this? I only see the Shipbuilder on the MJ12 Starmada page.

The Shipyard can be found at:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mj12games/files/Shipyard%20for%20Starmada%20AE/

Latest version 2.4

Paul

Dan,

I think that I found an error with the shipbuilder.  I was playing around with it today and I noticed that if you set the acc on Battery Z at 4+ and chose the anti-fighter special ability it doesn't affect the final su cost.

Never mind, I figured it out.  At short range the modifier doesn't change anything.

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Weapon traits SHOULD affect the ORAT... ?

Hi,

Yesterday I was trying to create a hull size 2 ship with ammo.  When this happened the ORAT and CRAT when to N/A.  By investigating the formula I see that your hull sizes listed in M8:M12 are 3, 8, 15, 24, 35.  The vlookup you have in the formula currently rounds down so by using 3 as the lowest number hull size 1 and 2 ships error out.  Due to the rounding down I think you want to change the cells to 1, 4, 9 , 16, 25.  This should return the correct value that matches the ISS manual.

Regards,
Demster