Dugan has come through again with some beauty ships. The top fleet is the Republic faction, the lower fleet the Confederation faction.

LSutehall and myself are commencing another playtest PBEM battle. If all goes well, I will post the mod as a Beta version after this battle so the community can try it and give feedback. Well, after a brief online test, anyway.

We are currently considering how to handle fighters in a PBEM situation (for online play, there is no need to change anything). For the ship combat phase, to cut down on fileswapping, we changed the rules to be more like the move orders phase. In other words, instead of firing one ship at a time, players secretly designate targets for all their weapons and then simultaneously reveal those orders. It can lead to overkill (or underkill) but I thought worked very well in our initial PBEM game.

Fighters are different, though. As this is a playtest, we are going to try some different things to cut down on file swaps during the fighter phase. Initially, I think we will simpy have each side move 2-3 flights at a time. But I am open to trying different ideas each turn to see how they work out. Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Kevin

p.s. You will also note, below, that I added a starry background to the map. Comments are welcome.