Poor cloaking... why?

This was not a game-balance decision, but a playability one. Without written movement orders -- or simultaneous movement -- as the "default", I thought it would be too hard to track where the cloaked ship had moved and/or give the cloaked ship too much of an advantage/disadvantage by moving first or last. (And I don't want any options to depend on any others -- i.e. "if you use cloaking, you have to use written movement".)

I'm open to tweaks that add a bit of the unknown back to cloaking... perhaps allowing a ship to move X number of hexes upon de-cloaking to simulate uncertainty over its "true" location?

Not really. Asteroids (particularly the cinematic asteroids) would likely void the cloak anyways. "Sir, sensors are picking up large energy spikes in the Hydapes belt, the signature matches that of deflection shields." "Weapons officer, target the location of those spikes and fire all weapons!"

Mines, same situation - depending on the trigger. There is still mass in that location.

And if the counter *isn't* your actual location, then perhaps the sensor 'ghost' obviously doesn't mesh with the incoming scans and can be discounted. "Sir, the sensors report a vessel in the Hydapes belt, but is not picking any energy spikes from deflection shields." "Ensign, ignore that signal and focus on the other two..." I.E. You remove the counter.

History repeats itself!

I can see the old headlines come around again.

"Mysterious rise in the sales of ping pong balls and black paint!"

"Sir, there are more of those black blips on sticks."
"Well Don't just stand there - Blast Them!"
"Must have been something cloaked, they just . . . melted away."

Paul

Done. Since this is version 1.0, will you be posting a folder with counters/markers and other tidbits on the catalog page? I had thought they might be included at the end of the rules with the blank ship displays.
Cheers,
Erik

Cool. Thanks. I am hoping to play a few little test games soon and I was hoping there would be official counters and markers rather than my chicken scratch on a card-stock square... "is that a zero or a six???" 
Cheers,
Erik

Erm, I've tried various usernames/passwords, but I can't remember entering one at the time of order.  I paid by paypal, where abouts would I have entered a new username/password?

Is is possible to get the account reset?

If it's remotely helpful, mine came in an email from "paypal@mj12games.com" with my email address as the account, and a wholly made up password of random numbers and letters and whatnot.

I've had my password reset now. I'm guessing the original email was there somewhere.  Thanks for the advice though.

As discussed in other fora, I am not comfortable including "exclusive" traits for the time being. So when converting Fighter-Exclusive from SAE, multiply the BAS by x0.55 and apply the pinpoint Nova trait. When converting Starship-Exclusive, multiply the BAS by x0.70.

Oh. :oops:

It was accidental on purpose... I only went through the Rulebook and Rules Annex when prepping the Conversions chapter.

I thought that the KLA+ weapon traits were being saved for a later book.
Hellbore was not mentioned in the conversion either.

Paul