• Registered: 2008-06-20
  • Posts: 1

Topic: another (old) newbie checking in

hello everyone

i'm an old school Starmada "1" player recently wanting to revisit the game.  (hi Dan.  i bought one of your 10 page rule books back in like '96.  i still have the old newsletters too!  thanks btw for listing me in the Compendium and X versions as a play tester.)

anyway, i just read through the discussion of 30 range weapons and got the sense that it has to do with Admiralty Edition.  i have an old Compendium and X manuals and was wondering if those version were still viable and played. 

also, on the Yahoo group Files section was a construction assistant for Compendium.  will that be compatible with X version rules too, or should perhaps i should stick with the  the SXCA spreadsheet?

thanks everyone.

  • Registered: 2005-03-27
  • Posts: 811

Re: another (old) newbie checking in

wasn't Dan looking for some old, old version of starmada somewhere??

hm

  • Registered: 2006-01-17
  • Posts: 740

Re: another (old) newbie checking in

Hello chm5800,

Welcome back.  I have played the Starmada"X" version and the Compendium version.  The combat values of both of them don't correspond wee to eachother.  Also, in the change from the "X" version to the outstanding Admirlty version, several broken things were deleted such as a weapon option called ignores shields, and shields that ignore ignores-shields :!:
The Admiralty edition is outstanding and combines the best of Starmada Compendium & "X" adding in many inovative ideas.  I am sure you will enjoy it as much as my gaming friends and I do. 8)