• Registered: 2005-03-28
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Re: Star shells

Superheavy guns could be simulated by knocking down' the range penalties, couldn't they?  instead of 5" bands, you'd maybe have 6".  A D12 gun with a (X3) damage multiplier and better range bands could represent an 18" gun. 

Yeah.....I'm getting way ahead of things.  But if there was a way to cost that kind of gun, all you'd have to do would be to drop a symbol on the ship display denoting its primaries as "super heavy" mounts just like you do now to mark guns capable of firing poison gas shells.

WW2 = realll big guns, squadrons of FACs, and all kinds of cool stuff.  The Axis powers meets Starblazers big_smile

Matt
PS -- one thing on my wish list would be to one day see crew quality rules.  But I have no idea how to model that.

  • From: Denver, CO
  • Registered: 2005-03-27
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Re: Star shells

themattcurtis wrote:

WW2 = realll big guns, squadrons of FACs, and all kinds of cool stuff.  The Axis powers meets Starblazers big_smile

On the one hand, I have Mr. Dugan lamenting the fact that we're leaving the Victorians behind, on the other I have you pushing towards WW2...

Sheesh. smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
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  • Registered: 2005-03-28
  • Posts: 379

Re: Star shells

On the one hand, I have Mr. Dugan lamenting the fact that we're leaving the Victorians behind, on the other I have you pushing towards WW2...

Sheesh.

Oh....WW2's gotta be a way off, doesn't it?

I mean, we end TMW in mid-1909.  Stuff being considered now doesn't take us more than a coupla years beyond that.  And based off what I've heard you say about WWI.........just getting the timeline to the 1940s is going to take forever.  I'm perfectly happy with the pace so far.   8)

  • Registered: 2022-11-15
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Re: Star shells

Dan wrote:

On the one hand, I have Mr. Dugan lamenting the fact that we're leaving the Victorians behind, on the other I have you pushing towards WW2... Sheesh.

<chuckle> Sorry about that. I'm on a lot of colonial lists, and it's so ripe for comflict, I forget about more 'modern' pursuits...

themattcurtis wrote:

Oh....WW2's gotta be a way off, doesn't it?

I mean, we end TMW in mid-1909.  Stuff being considered now doesn't take us more than a coupla years beyond that.  And based off what I've heard you say about WWI.........just getting the timeline to the 1940s is going to take forever.  I'm perfectly happy with the pace so far.   8)

Eh, I was thinking the pace is a bit fast, but then - we've not even gotten to the Great War, yet.

We've got the Soviet rebellion succeeding, The Argentines, Italians and Ottomans showing up...I have some reading to do. I didn't even realise that Matt was the author of Merchant Wars.

..and no cracks about me not reading stuff. I read - I just loose interest when the frequency of the pictures drops off. Geez, I did well in Nuclear Power School and had a 98% on the ASVAB <mutter, mutter, mutter>....