EXCELLENT!

So, who's gonna do the Starmada stats for 'em?

I'll do the Milano and the Insidioso; BTW they look ABSOLUTELY awesome. If I had money   , I'd buy a few of each right now.

I REALLY urge you to 'flesh out' the fleet following the same design. For instance, a heavy cruiser, cruiser, and frigate that share the same design pattern would be awesome.

In the write-up I did last year I put the Italians in the ONESS camp, so I was thinking that I would put a splinter Italian faction with the EuroFed, which would explain the new designs (and the Italian names!).

All I need are the size values for each ship.

I don't think there are really good/bad guys in this setting, as it should be. Besides, French-bashing does not sit well with me. The ships are part of the Eurofed line and have been given Italian names, thus I have to work with that material. However, there could have been some Italian civil war and the fleet split in parts, some aligned with the Eurofed and some remained allied to the ONESS.

The Eurofeds have a -1 engine tech modifier but a +1 special equipment modifier, so I was thinking that both ships are slow but have a lot of refinements equipment-wise. Especially the Insidioso, I was thinking of making it a stealth DD. As for the Milano I had in mind to turn it into a dedicated heavy ship-killer; the Eurofeds badly need such units (and a huge carrier as well!)

The whole trick usually with the Eurofed is to keep the range and stay in tight formations.

As I was thinking of the backstory, I thought that those two ships were initally designed to work with the (or within?) the ONESS and that they'd have no tech modifiers (I don't think ONESS ships have any, do they?). Remembering in WW2 the Italian navy predilection for fast ships I wanted to make the Milano a very fast ship of the line. But then to explain their presence amongst the Eurofed fleet I was thinking that perhaps the designs had been stolen/brought over to the Eurofed camp along with brake-away faction and that the Eurofeds funded the development of those ships but using Eurofed-available technology. I don't know, I'm just thinking aloud!

The Italians are really meant to be part of EuroFed - it's a Southern European federation, whereas ONESS is the more Northerly half (hence the name - Organisation of North European Sovereign States). In fact, there is at least one Italian named vehicle in our EuroFed range of 6mm vehicles.

The Insidioso is pretty much the same size as the Surcouf, so class 2 for the destroyer.

The Milano is Big, way bigger than a Liberte. The dimensions are around the same as a Jiangzi but it's more massive, so I'd go for 10.

If you do me the write-ups and e-mail me your postal address (off list to ordersATbrigademodels.co.uk) I'll send you one of each. Same goes for the others - winning the fleet design competition could keep you in ships for life !

Tony,

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Andreas

At the risk of repeating a question I posed in the Starmada section.

Has anyone done stats for Kearsage?

Thanks very much

James

Tony's planning on issuing some stats by Monday

Steve

Thanks Daniel