Re: SFB / FC - style SSDs for Starmada ?
Personally if there is going to be a picture of the ship on the SSD, I would prefer it to be out of the way of the data. I think that some of the official B5Warss SCSs were so jumbled up with information they were an eyesore, to the point where I started using Illustrator to remove the silhouettes so "clean up" the displays.
Fortunately, Starmada uses a lot less systems than, for example, B5 (or FC). Look at my first try, the abbai bimith. It is quite clear, isn't it?
I vastly prefer that to printing one ship (or at best 2) per sheet of paper and having to manage pages and pages of ships when playing with a squadron of 5-10 ships. In most of the tabletop games of Starmada I have played I have needed just one piece of paper for ships and another for fighter flight tracking.
Problem, whan I play, I decide which ships to take just before the game, and I don't have the leasure to print them mere minutes before playing.Thus I need ready SSDs and thus 2 ships per pages come in handy.
BTW, I tried adding colours to the B5 SSD, but the result is unstatisfying. Really not beatiful and worst, it doesn't ease the reading. I worked again at the same ships and here is the result.
Marc