Topic: Battlestar Galactica Stats?

I'm a noob here. I would really like to use the Starmada rules for BSG. Has anyone come up with a list of stats for either the old series or new series. Many thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

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Until now I haven't found anything. I once tried to convert the new Galactica and Cylon Basestars but got the problem to give justice to the point defense grid. Railguns were no problem so far. Perphaps I can find the stats I wrote somewhere on my pc.  wink

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That was my guess on the Galactica:


(1243) Acropolis-class Colonial Battlestar

Hull: 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1         
Engines: 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1         
Shields: 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1         
Weapons:
1:XY 2:XY 3:XY 4:X 5:X 6:X

X: Railgun: 4/8/12, 1/4+/2/1
[AC][AC][BD][BD][HJ][HJ][HJ][HJ][IK][IK][IK][IK][CE][DF]

Y: Point Defense Grid: 3/6/9, 2/4+/1/1
Anti-Fighter
[ACE][ACE][ACE][BDF][BDF][BDF]

Special: Carrier (600); Countermeasures; Hyperdrive; Launch Tubes; Point Defense

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I also wanted to convert new BSG ships to SAE, but I didn't have enough information about the weapons I felt I didn't know enough to finish the job.

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This isn't Starmada, but SFB(ish).....

http://www.fluency.paintedtarget.org/bsg/index.html

I think the primary thing is that the ships be consistent with each other, and don't obsess over trying to get it "in line with the series" - like most Television SciFi, it's woefully inconsistant and short on details.

If you wonder how certain things are supposed to work, ask. I don't know if you've played SFB, but I've had my butt handed to me by a Marine Staff Seargeant who loved Kzinti (not to be confused with Kzin)....

If you come up with a good conversion, maybe we can use it in the Space Fleet Omega setting....
big_smile

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Found this site.
Check out the xls file, could give a good comparison start.

http://colonialbattlefleet.pbwiki.com/

Paul

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It seems to me, based on screen evidence, the Galactica's main railgun batteries would be a perfect example of a dual mode weapon system. Reduced range, reduced damage area effect for the defensive flak mode best seen in the pilot (and a few times after), and a longer range, higher damage anti ship mode.
Erik

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Basing the ships stats on the tv-show, an Acropolis class should mount app. 8 fighter wings, dual railguns with ap and flechett rounds, launchtubes, a hyperdrive, armorplating, point defense as well as an unholy anti-fighter trait and countermeasures. One problem is the nature of the new point defense grid which seems to be an anti fighter weapon which in essence attacks a target and the misses saturate the area further building a dead zone. Normal AFB don't work that way and only barely do so when using a house rule to let them fire in the fighter phase before fighters fire.

Another problem I see is that you can only build such a ship like Galactica and Pegasus for SM without being disappointed somehow.

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Another problem is the Cylon base star. We see it continously lob normal or nuclear ordonance. Strikers and seekers would represent those missiles very good but that seem to be all weapons a base star mounts. No guns or turrets, only a missile tube and massive waves of raiders. The ship would come out very expensive due to a carrier score of mere 1000 or something. As an alternative, to simplify a base may mount an rof 4, slow loading 360° missile tube and raiders.

Something like that:

(1367) Cylon Base Star

Hull: 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1           
Engines: 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1           
Shields: 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1           
Weapons:
1:X 2: 3: 4: 5: 6:

X: Missile Tube: 5/10/15, 3/4+/1/2
No Range Mods; Slow-Firing
[ABCDEF][ABCDEF]

Special: Carrier (1000); Hyperdrive; Launch Tubes

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OldnGrey wrote:

Found this site.
Check out the xls file, could give a good comparison start.

http://colonialbattlefleet.pbwiki.com/

Paul

LOL!  Nice to see that I'm being used as source material now.  There's actually a newer version of the site. . .:

http://battlestargalacticacolonialbattlefleet.pbwiki.com

Has some ship designs a guy wrote for my system for a lot of the Ravenstar models.  Those might give you a good baseline comparison for those if you are interested.