The chance of a particular type of damage being inflicted is not based upon the space, per se, but it is connected to it tangentially.

Essentially, the idea is that a ship, on average, should have lost two-thirds of its systems at the time it blows up. Thus, if a ship has 12 MPs and 6 hull points, it should lose 8 MPs by the same time it loses 6 hull points... thus, the ratio of engine hits to hull hits should be 8:6. As there are three hull hits on the track, there should be 4 engine hits. Looking at the formula in A.3.1, MPs x 2 / Hull, you get a result of 12 x 2 / 6 = 4. (Note that fractions are rounded up because otherwise you might have a situation in which a ship was "immune" to a particular type of damage.)

Hi Daniel

I've got a better understanding of the damage allocation process now and done a few 'what if' scenarios and am happy now. Seems almost too simple to work but it does! I like it.

We aim to please!

I think the new slogan should be

"If it aint' got a square root, it ain't fun!"

Oh, while you're there, can you get mine too? Best if you take a fork-lift to get it though...:D

General point to note here:
GW never respond to questions/suggestions.

I play Arnies of Arcana for fantasy battles, FT and now SX for Sci Fi.

FT, SX and AoA are small fry in comparision to WHFB but in each case the designers have paid more attention to what the rules were trying to achieve and answeresd all questions (intelligently) that have been posted to them.

It is the actions of Thane Morgan, Jon Tuffley and now Daniel Kast that really push the wargame hobby forward. Hats off to you chaps. F***ing excellent game systems, even better attitudes! RESPECT!!!

Well, I think it would be a good idea, especially if we add equipment and weapon choices in order to take advantage of VBAM abilities. For instance, I did like the idea of putting a mass driver into the mix...:D

[size=200]MASS DRIVERS[/size]

Does that answer your question?

A new sourcebook similar to the brigade one with new factions, ship writeups, histories and stats.

More background on the governemnts in the vanilla Starmada book. Such as the Imperial Starmada the Donegal? and the aliens that start with a K (I'm at work and do not have the books with me :? ).

-Combat and design rules for orbital stations and ground batteries would be fine.

-simple rules to conduct ground combat with the troops/marines invading a ground installation. Should be similar and easy like the boarding rules maybe. (eg. troops are calculated in "steps" to 25 etc.)

-rules for ship combat in the athmosphere of a planet. Different types of athmospheres would be nice to simulate the athmospheric conditions of exotic planets.

-rules for invasion landings of assault landers or drop troops and the planetary defence fire.

-much greater hulls than 20. (maybe 200 or even bigger for titanic ships like the star wars death star) Or maybe a hull size formula to construct such monster ships.

-Some premade scenarios with balanced forces also.

-more different scenario types

-Also a way to design ships without shields or screens at all. (just different thickness of armor and the material it is made of)  I know the game comes with an armor special equiment, but I would prefer a deeper system for armor. Eg. for game universes like the traveller universe.

-Gunship rules, sub light ships which are greater than fighters but smaller than hull size 1 ships. (maybe operating in squadrons of 2 or 3)

-new area weapons

What I dont need is:
-background material for a universe. (while basically interesting, this should be in a seperate source book, like the Boltian book for example)

And, to a lesser extent, Mekton Zeta. As much as some CBTers loathe Games Workshop games, I can say, as a long-time player of CBT... You're absolutely right.

It also depends if we're talking about a ship weapon system or the WMD version, like in Babylon 5.

And it also largely depends on what kind of AoE you're looking for. Anime Spinal Mounts produce the "classic" effect, after all.

Of course, one would have to reconcile armor plating with that, but I don't think it would be too difficult.

That's how it's handled in VBAM: Starmada, actually. There's also a way to do >20 ships on the SXCA.

There are actually some neat rules for that in AT2. A Starmada conversion probably wouldn't be too difficult.

But if you don't tinker then we risk travelling down the dark side wherein Darth Dan delivers the ultimate and single ruleset.

Personally, I liked Noel's implementation of AoE weapons.

I.e. target a hex, if you hit you hit, if you miss, you "drift" into one of the adjacent hexe and the AoE goes off.  You then roll to hit the "target" and the outlying hexes, it's almost but not quite a may re-roll to hit and AoE all at once.

A Mass Driver that allows the Mass Driver ability in VBAM to be added to a vessel. So when designing a ship with the VBAM:SX spreadsheet, if you add a Mass Driver piece of equipment, it comes up as Mass Driver (1).

Tyrel and I did have a conversation about it, actually, and heres what I remember:

A 500 SU piece of equipment that is unaffected by TL (thus you have to put it on very heavy warships or have simple siege vessels with little offensive weaponry at all). In VBAM terms it adds the Mass Driver ability onto the warship.

In Starmada terms, in order to fire a mass driver the ship must be stationary. When a mass driver is fired, it launches a hull 10 'vessel' (actually an asteroid) which, for purposes of movement, has two MPs and, for purposes of shooting it down, has Armour Plating and a shield rating of 4 (KEB would be 4/4/4). It would be targetted like any other vessel, and destroyed like any other (10 hull hits) but there would be no engine, shield, equipment or weapon criticals (IOW, each hit results in a hull hit).

If it isn't destroyed, and in a turn it ends up inside a hex with a station or a planet, it rams the target (automatically winning the collision roll). Ships will always win a collision roll, however. Then roll for ramming damage as normal.

A mass driver would increase the ORat of a ship the same for a hull 10 spinal mount.

Example: A Centauri Primus with a mass driver lobs a rock at a JaStat warbase. The distance is ten hexes, so that means that the Narns have five turns to stop it hitting.

In the fourth turn, just two hexes shy of the base, a G'Quan is in the same hex. The collision roll is automatically won by the G'Quan, so it can choose not to be attacked by the asteroid. But the captain decides to collide with the asteroid in order to try and stop it from hitting the base

It needs some polishing, of course...

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