Topic: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Majestic Twelve Games is proud to announce that the newest version of Starmada is now available!

Starmada: The Admiralty Edition represents nearly a year of collective effort to update, streamline, and otherwise improve upon the Universal Game of Starship Combat. In addition to the essential rules, the Core Rulebook includes:

* Nearly 100 different options from which to pick and choose to create the type of game YOU want to play;

* A design system that allows for nearly five million different types of weapon;

* A fully-customizable set of rules for small craft, allowing for over one million different types of fighters, drones, and seeking weapons;

* Guidelines for converting your Starmada X ship designs to their Admiralty equivalents;

* A half-dozen sample scenarios; and

* The most comprehensive and flexible starship construction rules of any game available.

The 84-page Core Rulebook is available today through our online catalog for $16.95 (U.S.) A PDF version will also be available shortly through the major e-book vendors.

Today's release includes only the Core Rulebook--unfortunately, there is still some work to be done on the Imperial Starmada Sourcebook. Rather than prolong the agony of those desperate to see what we've done, while still ensure the best product possible, we've decided to release the rulebook today, as promised. The Sourcebook will follow within the next two weeks. This 48-page supplement will include:

* Detailed background material on five of the major factions in the Starmada Universe;

* Three dozen starship classes;

* Several new scenarios; plus

* A simple (but not simplistic) campaign system.

For more information on Starmada and all of our games, please visit our web site: www.mj12games.com

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Okay, now THAT'S cool...

Starmada is currently #1 at RPGNow. Not in the miniatures section, mind you, but in the entire site.

big_smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Awesome......LOL
Getting my copy shortly.

John

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Congrats!

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Our first review is a positive one:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/260322

The movement system is "frankly, brilliant".

big_smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

and a rating of 12 to boot. DANG! :shock:  big_smile

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Why didn't I notice there was a full color interior option before I ordered mine?

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

cricket wrote:

Okay, now THAT'S cool...

Starmada is currently #1 at RPGNow. Not in the miniatures section, mind you, but in the entire site.

Update -- still there eight days later! big_smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

is rpgnow even working?


edit, apparently they've fixed the database, but the speed still sucks

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

jimbeau wrote:

is rpgnow even working?


edit, apparently they've fixed the database, but the speed still sucks

Yeah -- all the people buying Starmada have flooded the system.

smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Any update on the release of the Imperial Starmada fleet book? smile

CW smile

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

cricket wrote:

Starmada is currently #1 at RPGNow. Not in the miniatures section, mind you, but in the entire site.

Not only is Starmada still #1, but now MJ12 is featured as one of the 15 publishers on the front page.

smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Chaoswarlord wrote:

Any update on the release of the Imperial Starmada fleet book?

Well, the cover will look something like this:

www.mj12games.com/mjg0121.png

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Majestic Twelve Games would like to announce that the Imperial Starmada Sourcebook is now available! This is the first in what is hoped to be a long series of setting books in support of the Starmada game.

These pages describe the universe of the Imperial Starmada: the interstellar naval arm of the Terran military. Although in a state of uneasy peace with its immediate neighbors, the Starmada is now faced with its greatest threat--an alien power of unknown size, strength, and intention. Can the Terrans summon a coalition to face down this new adversary, or will old enmities force the Empire to its knees?

In addition to historical background for five different factions in the Starmada universe, the Imperial Starmada Sourcebook includes:

*Thirty starship designs for the Starmada and its major adversaries;
*New starship options and weapon traits, including anti-fighter batteries, overthrusters, limited ammunition, and more;
*Rules for three-dimensional movement and combat interception;
*The "Simplest Campaign System"; and
*A complete board game that can be used as a scenario generator for Starmada.

The Imperial Starmada Sourcebook is not a stand-alone product; ownership of the Starmada Admiralty Edition Core Rulebook is required.

Starmada is a miniatures board game of starship combat. At its most basic level, players take command of space fleets in a general attempt to reduce each other to just so much space junk. At its most advanced, the game can be customized to breathe life into any science fiction background that players might imagine.

For more information on Starmada and all of our products, please visit our web site: www.mj12games.com

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

And the AE edition is displaced from #1 spot on RPGNow by the ISS.  That makes...what...one month at number one! wink

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Well, I must confess to some disappointment... the Starmada books have dropped to #5 and #7 on the RPGNow Top 100. sad

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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cricket wrote:

Well, I must confess to some disappointment... the Starmada books have dropped to #5 and #7 on the RPGNow Top 100. sad

Well, if you guys would stop farting around with the damn ship builder and *finally* get it working correctly, maybe they'd climb back up there.
Sheesh...
:wink:
Kevin

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

As of February 1, the two books are back to #2 and #3 on the overall RPGnow rankings.

Dey's coming back big_smile

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Well, they might have gotten the ship builder fixed...
lol

Re: Starmada: The Admiralty Edition released

Seriously, the reason may have to do with the fact that (besides having a copleted ship builder) the 'franchise' has shown that it still has plenty of life left in it ...