The D7 was never a direct match for the Constitution but two would be easily fatal for the Conny, and three?  Well that's Kobayashi Maru :shock:
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I have more play testing to do this week.  More to come this weekend.  If anyone notices any errors or has questions please ask.

Before the Federation
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The Intrepids held down the fort while the Enterprise class ships explored, and stirred up trouble.  :roll:

The idea is that the phaser is firing multiple shots but still using in total the same amount of energy as if it had fired one concentrated shot (normal fire).  These fast shots are for small targets like fighters or missiles. 
The NPr is to show that this mode is not meant for ships as the individual shots are much weaker.  At the same time I did not like that it reduced the accuracy of the weapon on tiny targets so I used Pnp to offset the penalty.
Up to TOS the Federation did not have much experience against missiles or fighters.  In later designs (Late TOS, TMP and onward) you will start to see the NPr go away as Starfleet more often encounters fighters and missiles.  This will show that later weapons were built with the rapid fire point defense in mind and not just a stopgap modification to an existing weapon.

NOTE:  Personally this has been a rough call for me as I try to balance "canon" with what games like SFB and FC present us.  I figure it wasn't until late TOS that encounters with races like the Kizinty (Mirak SFC) begin to occur in a more serious nature and point defense becomes a serious thing.  Again, this may not jive with SFB but in balance with canon (seen on TV) we never see the TOS Enterprise deal with missiles or fighters.  So I have moved this idea to more of the TMP era. 

MRCAcct, Thank you for pointing that out as I see it could be an eyebrow raiser.  :mrgreen:
If you have a better idea of how you think this should be represented please let me know.

The "whole range" is quite a lot of ships.  That will be in the hundreds. :shock:   Right now i am releasing bits here and there to see what kind of reactions i get.  That way people can give input and affect the final product if they like.  No-one is perfect and I am doing this myself other then play testing with my friends.  I plan on releasing the factions by era.  The TOS Federation will be the first fully completed faction.  That way we can get a pretty good base line.  Then most likely the TOS Klingons so you have someone to play against.  Some spattering of the minor powers like the Kinshaya, Kzinti, ISC and others will pop up from time to time.

As to my material, EVERYTHING. :mrgreen:   If i can make it make some type of sense it's in!  I have seen every episode of every series many times.  I have most of the games table top, PC, and console and my friends of have EVERY other game.  I even have blueprints and books from the 70's that a friend loaned me that i am afraid to touch because they are falling apart.  Web sites like Daystrom Institute Technical Library (DITL) and Memory Alpha and Beta are some of my sources.  DITL is a hard core 'canon' site and i don't agree with some of his stuff because I allow for writer and CGI error.  DITL for the most part does not.  With me if it doesn't make sense it goes out with the trash and the same goes for Memory Alpha and Beta.
I love many of the races you see in the various games that you never hear about on screen and I like to think that many of these events might have taken place in the prime timeline (at least for the purposes of this game) in some form or another.

I have not changed any rules, just a name here and there. 

The Diamond is the screen row.  This can represent a deflector or armor.  Effectively it is extra hit boxes.
Hyperdrive = Warp Drive.
Science is for scenario or campaign play.
Marines = Security.
Ionized hull = Enhanced Hull
And some others I will mention as they come up.  But it is all core rules.

Star Trek shields work in two ways.  If possible they will completely deflect or even absorb an attack hence the "shield" in game rules.
Not all attacks can be deflected or absorbed without a cost though.  Kind of like a second layer of protection that will "take the hit" before damage gets to the hull. This would be "screens" in game rules.  Screen somewhat represent a combination of armor and protective shields but more so on the shield side.  Typically in Star Trek it is all about your energy shields.  They go down and you go poof!  On ships without a shield rating assume the screens represent armor.
I like to use the optional rule of bleed through.  This just feels more Star Trek to me.

I'm very interested. Tell me more, please! I want playable Star Trek universe space combat tha isn't SFB.

Hello everyone.
Here is my version of the Federation Constitution class:

USS CONSTITUTION (600)
-Tech: Engines +2; Weapons +2

Screens: 11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Hull: 11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Engines: 5-5-4-3-2-1
Weapons: 20-17-14-10-7-4
Shields: 4-4-3-2-2-1

Phaser (6-12-18) 1×3+/1/1
ABCD ☐| ABC ☐| ABC ☐| ABD ☐| ABD ☐ // (3)

Photon Torpedo (6-12-18) 1×3+/1/5 (Pr1)
GHI ☐| GHI ☐| GHI ☐ // (2)

Point-Defense Phaser (2-4-6) 1×3+/1/1 (Dfn; Pnp)
360° ☐| 360° ☐| 360° ☐| 360° ☐| 360° ☐| 360° ☐ // (3)

Equipment: Hyperdrive ☐| Overthrusters ☐| Tractor Beam ☐☐☐☐ // (3)

Marines : 1

Is it too much?  I am gonna use this and a similar D7 design at Rapier 2017 next month.

I just bought a house and have a new one month old baby.  life has been a little crazy.  As things settle down i will get back to it!

Oh this is #7 but thank you all the same.  As you can guess it is hard to find the time.

Here is an example of the detail i am going into.  Ships may have many variants.  Like the NX Enterprise.  We saw her go through many refits and upgrades and these three still don't cover them all!  :shock:
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