I'm new to the rules (just bought them 2 days ago) and new to scifi-naval gaming as well, but I'm currently working on this.  The process in general will be:

1. Organize all the stats from the old WEG Star Wars series, which is the only comprehensive source of game stats that I know of, despite its idiosyncratic format.

2. Try to normalize all that data - WEG was not very systematic about applying similar stats to similar weapon systems, etc.

3. Try to fit this data into a Starmada design.

So far, I have the weapons systems organized, and have worked out generic stats for the primary weapon systems: Turbolasers, Ion Cannons, Laser Cannons, and Concussion Missiles.  Given the extremely high numbers of these weapons on the typical Star Wars ship (even the lowly Nebulon-B Frigate has 12 Turbolasers and 12 Laser Cannons), I'm currently trying to use 10 weapon mounts = 1 Starmada weapon mount, or possibly use the ROF to tweak that ratio.

Here's what I'm working with so far:

Turbolasers: Rng 12, To Hit 4, ROF 1, Pen 3, Dmg 3, Inverted Range Mods (140.40)

Ion Cannons: Rng 6, To Hit 5, ROF 1, Pen 1, Dmg 2, Ignores Shields, No Hull Dmg (14.00)

Laser Cannons: Rng 3, To Hit 4, ROF 1, Pen 2, Dmg 2, No Range Mods, Repeating (34.56)

Concussion Missiles: Rng 3, To Hit 4, ROF 1, Pen 1, Dmg 3, Must Re-roll To Hit, Variable Dmg (7.65)

I don't know how much sense these make in gameplay terms, but the general idea is the Turbolasers are for long distance work versus capital ships and not as good in close, while the Laser Cannons are for close defense work, especially against starfighters.  Ion Cannons ignore shields but don't cause physical damage, while Concussion Missiles are erratic but potentially powerful (I may add Must Re-roll Pen to them as they are ballistic rather than energy weapons).

Another problem is that most of the canon designs don't make a lot of gameplay sense, i.e. the Star Destroyers have immense Turbolaser batteries but no Laser Cannons.

The Tractor Beam can also be used as a weapon in the Star Wars universe, but I have no idea how to model that in Starmada terms.

Feedback welcome!

Cheers,

Christopher

PS - I'm using the Shipyard program - looks great!

to make better anti fighter weapons, use a ROF of 3, PEN 1 and DMG 1

PEN and DMG mean nothing to fighters as they are never rolled.

Okay, here's a strange question:

Can anyone give me an approximation of how many "real" vehicles would fit in a 1kmt vehicle bay?  I'm trying to figure out how many AT-AT's (15m tall by 20m long) and AT-ST's (8m tall by 6m long) would fit in one.

Cheers,

Christopher

You're right, replying to yourself IS a bad habbit.......

For Star Destroyers, which don't have lasers, I use more than one bank of identical weapons....   in this case, turbo lasers.  Especially since the spreadsheet limits you to 11 weapons per bank.

John

Actually, it seems to me a bit easier to standardize the weapons into 'batteries', consisting of an abstract-but-large number of gun mounts.  Thus, a Nebulon-B would have the same 'turbolaser batteries' as a Star Destroyer, just fewer of them, and likely on different firing arcs.

But people have been using this idea, just never stated quite so plainly.  Here's what I propose for the basic weapons systems of Star Wars -- bearing in mind three constants:
1) Laser Cannons are quite short ranged.
2) In all the computer type games I've played, torpedos and missiles outrange cannons and turbolasers, but only by a smidgen, and then they're inaccurate/likely to be shot down.
3) There are only five basic weapons.  I'm not well versed enough in Star Wars stuff to know of any more, but people are welcome to chip in.

I'm still unsure about how the missiles are represented, appreciate inputs.  But running some trials, at TL0, these numbers seem to let me fit about the right 'scales' of firepower onto ships -- hence, a Star Destroyer can fit eight ABCD Turbolaser Batteries, some ion cannons, and some concussion launchers, along with Armor Plating (c'mon!) and some fighters and all that.

Laser Battery    (7.2 SU)           
(E)    R3    4+    2    1    1    Re-Rolls To-Hit Dice               
Turbolaser Battery    (42 SU)           
(E)    R6    4+    2    2    2                               
Ion Cannon Battery (30.24 SU)               
(E)    R6    5+    2    2    2    Halves Shields    /No Hull Dmg                               
   
Concussion Missile Launcher Battery.    (11.9 SU)           
(B)    R7    5+    2    1    1    Variable PEN                                                   
Proton Torpedo Launcher Battery  (48.3 SU)
(B)    R7    4+    2    2    1    Increased DMG

Gents,

I've finished the initial run through the basic Star Wars ships, and have organized them into seperate Imperial and Republic "Shipyard" files.

EDIT: see the message below for the actual files!

There are still a few things that seem a bit off, particularly:

1. Most SW ships are apparently pigs in space, with speeds usually ranging from 2-4 with a few 5's.  Ships that you would think would be faster are rated lower, big boys are rated similarly to the smaller ships, etc.  This might need some adjustment for gameplay issues.  On the other hand, remember that Leia's Corellian Corvette (and even the Millenium Falcon) apparantly can't outrun an Imperator class Star Destroyer.

2. Due to the way the Starmada math works, there are some Hull sizes that don't seem quite right, but that's probably due to the fact that most of these ships are overloaded with weapons.

All comments appreciated!

Cheers,

Christopher

Fixed...

Limit is now 1 MB.

Try not to abuse it.

Can I steal that beautiful arc diagram and make a bigger one to repost in the "need an arc diagram" thread?

I can rebuild it. so I only need your permission.

Well BrotherAdso, already managed to do all that??? great work!!! 

And since I also planned to build counters for this, I would love to see your work too....

Your approach is really interesting.

About #3: a single Mon Calamari cruiser is 2000+ points? seems a lot. But I would like a more detailed explanation about the "but smaller ships 'feel' more realistic and managable" part.....

About #2: seems right, since when you are "in character" as a single pilot, or as a common character in any SW movie, you see space battles like that.... but.....

About #1: That is the one that gets my vote. For me, Starmada is a game of big ships, and SW space battles always involve a LOT of BIG ships. You see really big ships with tiny little fighters all around.....(I love the starting space battle from EpIII). And that way, you can always combine several kinds of ships in order to use their special weapons.

Sure fighters are important for tactical reasons (as all SW computer games have showed us), but that is already covered by Starmada rules. So I am willing to see a lot of ships on the table....

Big ships in SW are really slow and do not maneuver very quickly (space battles in Star Trek or Babylon 5 are sooo different....). Does your approach take this into account?