Topic: Battleships Armada

Just sent off material to Steve Cole for inclusion in Captain's Log #46.

Yup -- there were Battleships involved. smile

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Sounds great!
How do I obtain a copy of this?  And Captians Log # 46.
Can I order these thru mj12games?
BTW, Happy New Year to you & your whole family.
(Is this a bad time to mention that its 78 degrees here in Hallandale, in S.Fla & I just got out of my parents' pool ?)  tongue

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Captain's Log #46 can be ordered directly from ADB starting sometime in mid-January. Battleships Armada should be ready shortly thereafter.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Cover art for Battleships Armada.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Love the cover. I can't wait to get the product.

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Dan, is the plan still for BA to be  a dual release in AE and NE formats?  If so, will they both be released at the same time? Thanks,
Erik

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Yes, both versions will be available. Nova first, Admiralty shortly thereafter.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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cricket wrote:

Yes, both versions will be available. Nova first, Admiralty shortly thereafter.

Good stuff, thanks.
WARNING: Here's the part of the post where I pester you about a AE>NE update for the SFU stuff...

Dan, any news on when there might be an update document/info available to port the preexisting AE SFU stuff to NE?

Thanks,
Erik

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Tease, tease. Here's the Klingon light raiding dreadnought:

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Nice preview Dan.

BTW, I know there was some discussion a ways back about doing a compendium of all your SFU conversions.  Is this still something your considering - I'd love to have it all in one file- and I already have the Nova rulebook - so I'd just need ships and any SFU specific stuff.

-Tim

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Marauder wrote:

BTW, I know there was some discussion a ways back about doing a compendium of all your SFU conversions.  Is this still something your considering - I'd love to have it all in one file- and I already have the Nova rulebook - so I'd just need ships and any SFU specific stuff.

-Tim

It might have been a nice thought but I can not see ADB wanting to give away future sales of the Nova versions, which are currently the ones being promoted (AE having to be ordered).

Paul

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Daniel, do you know when the pdf version of the Battleships Armada -Nova-product will be available on e23?

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No, I'm afraid I don't.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Battleships Armada is now available for pre-orders: http://store.starfleetstore.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=6105N&Category_Code=01

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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I just ordered a copy.
It will be fun seeing "Book Ships" that are larger than, and have a higher CR than my DNs... yikes

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Hello everyone,
My copy of Battleships Armada arrived yesterday.  It is great!  Not only are there the Starmada versions of StarFleetBattles biggest ships, but there are starbases lso as well s some smaller ships.  I like the way ESGs are introduced also.  There are also options to deal with the shielding on these ships that is more like the way that shields are handled in SFB.  Bravo!  This is well done.   8-)
Cheers

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I can't wait for the pdf to be released.

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A gaming buddy and I were looking at Battleships Armada this afternoon.  We had  few questions:

Can all of expendible seekers in the Drone Racks on the Federation/Klingon/Khazinti ships fire at once?  If so it will be a massive barrage that would resemble a salvo of Capital-ship missiles launched from External-0rdance Racks on Starfire ships...

I was wondering why the Phaser Fours don't fire out to 24 or even 30 hexes?  In SFB, these base-mounted weapons had the longest range.

I like the idea of making Armor into "Shields" and then using half for Front Shields, the FF arc & the other half for the Aft Shields covering nearly all of the AX arc.  Does this change the cost of a ship, that is, can all ships use this option?

I was couriouswhyno weapons have the Acr weapon trait?  It would allow these ships to have 1/3 leassweapons with the same firepower & cost.  It also allows gamers to roll fewer dice.  All of my personal ships have Acr.

All in all, this Battleships Armada is impressive.  I like the way webs are done.  Brilliant!

Cheers

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Do we have an ETA of when the PDF copy of Battleship Armada will be released?

Thanks

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May I second the PDF question please.

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Stephen.Tarheel wrote:

Do we have an ETA of when the PDF copy of Battleship Armada will be released?

Thanks

mikeaxe wrote:

May I second the PDF question please.

It is probably better to ask on the ADB forum.

I usually buy the pdf version but a few times it seemed to take ages before release. Those times I got fed up waiting and bought the printed version. (This is one of those times, bought the book here in the UK)
Downside being when errors are corrected later in the pdf, maybe the Battleships Armada pdf is being re-formatted and that is holding it up?

BeowulfJB wrote:

Can all of expendible seekers in the Drone Racks on the Federation/Klingon/Khazinti ships fire at once?  If so it will be a massive barrage that would resemble a salvo of Capital-ship missiles launched from External-0rdance Racks on Starfire ships...

I like the idea of making Armor into "Shields" and then using half for Front Shields, the FF arc & the other half for the Aft Shields covering nearly all of the AX arc.  Does this change the cost of a ship, that is, can all ships use this option?
Cheers

There does not appear to be a restriction on the number of SFU "Drone Racks" fired in a turn being a weapons battery unlike Nova "Drones" which are a subset of Fighters.

The Front/Aft shields option (if used) would replace the SFU modified Directional Defenses so I imagine the cost would be the same. (That is the way I have done the option in Nova Shipyard.) Can anyone comment on the Drydock using this option?

Paul

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We should be seeing Battleships directly.  SVC thought it was uploaded, but it wasn't and Leena is working on a better product description.

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Both versions of BA are now up on E23.
Cheers,
Erik

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Happy Day!!!!

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For anyone that has bought the book, The Gatling Phaser Range is 9 (missing from Page 11).
Though having said that it is probably on one of the data cards.

Is it worth buying the Admiralty version?
What am I asking? Is it worth getting to update anything in the shipyard? Would anyone still use the shipyard for SFU Battleships?
Where has everyone gone?
It has been so quiet maybe I missed the hibernation this year. lol
What is everyone working on at the moment?
Why are ship counters (top down that I can put a magnet on the back of) rarer than hens teeth?

My own project has been converting Iron Stars to Nova (at least the RNES for which I have a complete fleet of my own counters and data cards + a few extras) I have been using the pictures a lot as the stats do not always tally. For instance I noticed that the German AZ.3 was given an extra primary turret in the stats.
Eventually they will do battle with the beasties from Saturn that have been eating in the asteroid belt and noticed that some of the other planets have been launching ready to eat packed lunches!

Paul