Topic: Distant Armada Unity has arrived!

Distant Armada Unity is now available! It is for sale on Wargames Vault only - not at Warehouse 23. It includes TONS of new ships - Hydran, Lyran, LDR, and WYN.

For those unfamiliar with these races from SFB/FC, the Hydrans are methane-breathing tripeds who use unique weapons and utilize fighters. The Lyrans are felinoids (probably cousins to the their sworn enemies, the Kzinti) who are allied with the Klingons, (Who knew they had friends?) The LDR is the Lyran Democratic Republic, a breakaway Lyran faction. The WYN are a group of renegade Kzinti, Klingons, and Lyrans who inhabit a radiation-shrouded star cluster at the juncture of those three empires. The Orion Pirates made a deal with them to place a shipyard there, in exchange for building ships for them.

Let the General War begin!

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I realized that there are some questions for those of us wanting to convert our own ships. Namely the ORAT/DRAT values for the Expanding Sphere Generators and Stingers. And thinking of Stingers, some of the Hydrans don't have as many stingers as their Star Fleet Battles counterparts do. (ie. The Paladin DN has 12 Stingers, you only listed 8.) Is that a FedCom vs SFB issue, or was there a reasoning to reducing some of the Stingers?

As a note, I find Stingers themselves to be rather overpowered, especially given that they could only fire one Fusion/Hellbore shot before having to return and rearm. (I'm looking at my own take on them.)

I'd also like to pick your brain some day about how you came up with the weapon stats. smile Some of them don't make as much sense to me (Hellbores have a longer reach than Fusions in SFB.) **Again, using SFB as my source material, not FedCom.

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Looks great, but why the format change on the ship displays?

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MRCAcct wrote:

I realized that there are some questions for those of us wanting to convert our own ships. Namely the ORAT/DRAT values for the Expanding Sphere Generators and Stingers. And thinking of Stingers, some of the Hydrans don't have as many stingers as their Star Fleet Battles counterparts do. (ie. The Paladin DN has 12 Stingers, you only listed 8.) Is that a FedCom vs SFB issue, or was there a reasoning to reducing some of the Stingers?

All of the values (weapons, marines, shuttles, Stingers, etc.) are based off of the FedCom SSDs. I do not have access to the SFB ones, soi I can't comment on differences.

As a note, I find Stingers themselves to be rather overpowered, especially given that they could only fire one Fusion/Hellbore shot before having to return and rearm. (I'm looking at my own take on them.)

To be addressed in a separate post.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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cmdr kevin wrote:

Looks great, but why the format change on the ship displays?

First of all, because I think they look better (and you don't have to turn your head sideways to see them).

Secondly, the shift was required to allow for customized range bands on build-your-own ships. Not necessarily relevant to the SFU, but for consistency's sake I changed these as well.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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Will the Unity upgrade be available to Warehouse 23 customers, the way other Unity updates were available?

Thank you,

netWilk

Re: Distant Armada Unity has arrived!

Yes.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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It just showed up, thank you!

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For the record, in Federation Commander, the Paladin DN has only 8 Stingers.

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mj12games wrote:
cmdr kevin wrote:

Looks great, but why the format change on the ship displays?

First of all, because I think they look better (and you don't have to turn your head sideways to see them).

Secondly, the shift was required to allow for customized range bands on build-your-own ships. Not necessarily relevant to the SFU, but for consistency's sake I changed these as well.


My OCD is kind of triggered with the difference, they don't match the old ones but I understand. Could you release a blank of the new format?

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My OCD is kind of triggered with the difference, they don't match the old ones

I agree. Plus, the weapon info is only next to the one on top, meaning I'll likely just throw the bottom one out. Yeah, I know, I could cut it out, use a paperclip, etc. In any case, I mostly just hate that they don't match the old ones. But it is what it is, and I'd rather have it like this than not at all.

PS - For everyone who complained re: the ship cards being sideways - there are programs like PDFShuffler that let you rotate, export, add. and delete pages from pdfs. For example, I have pdf files called "Federation Ships", "Klingon Ships", etc. I also made an integrated rulebook that incorporates the terrain rules and the extra SFU rules from Alien and Distant Armada. I think PDFShuffler is Linux only,  but there are similar programs for Win/Mac.

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cnuzzi wrote:

Plus, the weapon info is only next to the one on top,

The intent is to reserve that entire section for weapon data. For ships with lots of different types, there wouldn't be enough room to list them twice.

Daniel Kast
Majestic Twelve Games
cricket@mj12games.com

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The intent is to reserve that entire section for weapon data. For ships with lots of different types, there wouldn't be enough room to list them twice.

I see. That makes sense.

In any case, I found an easy fix. Instead of printing the entire page of the pdf, use the "Select an area to grab" option of your screen grab app to select just the top ship card, with its adjacent weapon info, and print that. I also size the pdf to the same scale as the old-style ship cards before I grab it. And, if there are ever ship cards where the weapon info goes below the top of the lower card, one could quickly erase that part in any graphics app before you print and use the extra white space for notes.

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Okay, I'm killing myself here.

Tried repeatedly to find ORAT/DRAT/CRAT values for the ESGs, and can't. Any chance you could let us (me?) know?

EDIT: Clarified what I was looking for.

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If you mean values as in "1x3+/1/1", there are none. They hit automatically, much like the Tholian's web snare, and each PP used in the burst inflicts one PP of damage. I'm waiting for clarification on whether shuttles get their saving throw or not.

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Gah, clarified what I was looking for. Thanks.