You are quite right. Here's my updated version;

THOLIAN WEB GENERATOR
A Tholian device, the Web Generator creates a strand of energy draining plasma. The strand must initially be anchored to a solid object such as an asteroid or ship, and is then extruded from the rear of the ship as it moves. Two ships carrying the Web Generator can anchor to one another and spin a single strand between them. Operating the Web Generator requires a great deal of power, so the operating ship's MP's are HALVED for the entire turn that the device is in use.
Any ship moving into contact with the web strand immediately comes to a stop and becomes 'stuck' in the web. In subsequent movement phases, the stuck ship can attempt to break free by rolling a 5 or 6 on 1d6.
Weapons cannot penetrate through the web strand. A ship that is caught in the web MAY fire out however.

SU Cost: 5%
OFF Rating: N/A
DEF Rating: (MP's x 15) x 10%
HIT?: Yes
TL?: yes

(the point values are a guess right now. Perhaps Dan can come up with something better)

Currently I'm not planning on using Lyrans. I'm staying with the canon races; Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Gorn and Tholian.

Hello everyone,

The  Star Trek Starmada X items:  Tractor Beams, Web Generators, etc sounds very creative.  Pointing them will be a challange, but I think this can be done.  Most other Combat-in-space games have Tractor beams.  Look at how Tractor Beams are handled in Starfire.  They are simple and don't have to be powered which  SFB-type tractor beams need to work...   Presser beams would be fun also... <LOL>

Steven Gilchrist
Jacksonville, Fla, USA

I thought about using the spinal mount  as plasma torpedoes, but decided against it.

I'll have to look for that 1/2 rate of fire post... That would fit well.

Currently my plasma torpedoes are increased PEN, range-based DMG weapons, as follows;

TYPE    ROF    PEN    DMG    Special Attributes
Type-R    1    1    3    Increased PEN, Range Based DMG
Type-G    1    1    2    Increased PEN, Range Based DMG
Type-F    1    1    1    Increased PEN, Range Based DMG

Yes, I'll post them when I get them done.

Hello everyone!

The Ranges on the Phasers, photonTorps, and Disruptors for Star Trek typ ships is excellent.  May I suggest that the heaviest ones shoot out to a range of 18?  In the series of games my friends and I play in Jacksonville, most weapons shooot to 18, a few to 15 or less, and most hit on 3+   Perhaps the weapons chart posted could look like this:
(I also changed some weapon hits to be 3+).   This will make the weapons more effective and decisive, but still have the flavor of Star Trek, and of StarFleetBattles. 

Phaser 1: RNG 18, 3+, 1, 1, 1, Doubled Range Modifiers
Phaser 2: RNG 15, 3+, 1, 1, 1, Doubled Range Modifiers
Phaser 3: RNG 6, 3+, 1, 1, 1, Doubled Range Modifiers
Photon: RNG 18, 3+, .5, 2, 1, Re-Rolls PEN, Extra Hull Damage (!)
Disruptor (30) RNG 18, 3+, 1, 2, 2, No Range Modifiers.
Plasma F: RNG 9, 3+, .33, 2, 1, Range Based DMG
Plasma G: RNG 12, 3+, .33, 2, 2, Range Based DMG
Plasma S: RNG 15, 3+, .33, 2, 2, Rane Based DMG
Plasma R: RNG 18, 3+, .33, 2, 3, Range Based DMG

Steven Gilchrist;  Jacksonville, Fla, USA.

that's similar to what Rory did in his SFB conversions, although he also made them expenable. forex, the Warbird's:

Range...To-Hit...ROF...PEN...DMG........Special Attributes
18..........4+........1.......2.......2.............Range-Based DMG
Expendable? Yes...8

looking forward to them.

Hello again,
Saedor wrote
"Speaking of which... I'm also tinkering with an alternate momentum-based movement system. The ship's Engine rating would represent thrust which can be used to accelerate or decelerate. I'm still working on the turning procedure (I'm playing Starmada as a miniatures game, not a hexboard game). "
If you checkout the rules for "FullThrust by gGroundZeroGames in the UK, you will find that the movement system in that is based on thrust just as you describe.  I have played it many times and its also a good movement system.  Although the FullThrust game allows players to make their own ships, the ammount of weapons the game has is limited compared to Starmada.  For the conversion, use the ships Starmada movement as its thrust ability.  It should work well.  When I go down to South Florida in June, we may try to use the FullThrust movement.  Its a bit more complex tho...

Steven Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

Yeah, I'm familiar with Full Thrust (been playing it for years, actually ). But I've recently converted to Starmada.

But now that I've been thinking about it I think I have a better idea. I'll keep the standard movement system, but each movement point will equal 3" on the table. Thus, a ship using 6mp's to move straight forward actually moves 18". This should allow for more flying around the table and high-speed passes without requiring any extra record keeping.

Okay, here's the first draft of my Star Trek SFB conversion.

VERY good adaptations....

Now...where's the Lyrans? *chuckles*  :wink:

wow! fantstic job. and i appreciate that it's a pdf, because i use Open Office and it can get flaky with Excel files.

Personally, I'd like to scratch build some of the Gorn ships from the game
Star Fleet Battles II, Empires at War. I really like the way they re-sculpted the ships for the computer game.

John