The  Kayeshi Fleet I was designing also carried drones on a number of the ships in the fleet.....  I would launch them and have them stick near the launching ship... finally, when I had enough to do what I wanted, they would all head off for the target......

Dan, outside of the one shot expendible weapons, and the unlimited shots normal weapons... do  you think there is a way to incorporate ammunition costs into the weapons??? 

John

Err... I'm not sure why you can't do it with the existing expendable rules. E.g., if you want 10 shots, just add 10 expendable weapons...

Or am I missing something?

You could just apply a multiplyer as is done for expendable.

0.25 for single shot (0.2 for Starmarda seems to generate a concern over balance therefore 0.25 may be more appropriate)
0.5 for 2 shot weapon
0.75 for 3 shot weapon
No bonus for 4 or more shots.

Use as above and shift multipliers as playtesting suggests. You can always tell where the inbalance is, ship designers home in on it pretty quick.

The 2 major differences between 5 expendable weapons and a single weapon with 5 shots is that: 1) I can fire off all 5 expendable weapons in a single turn and 2) It takes 5 points of damage to that damage track to kill the expendables, whereas it only takes 1 point of damage to kill the single weapon with 5 shots.

Jimmy

And of course, we get a square route in there.....LOL

Yes, I was looking at the fact that I wanted a weapon with limited numbers of shots that could only fire once a turn, and could be taken with a single hit...... I tried it the other way with basically 20 single shot "torpedoes" but would only launch 4 a turn..... however, when one of my friends used the ship, he unloaded all 20 torpedoes at once....  (1/3/3 with range 18) and well..... it was kind of messy....... LOL

The scenario was supposed to be a starbase (hull 40) and several small ships, holding off a larger fleet for 6 turns, until help arrived.....

He took the ship, ran it in to medium range of the base... and then unloaded all 20 torpedoes at once..........

It pretty much ended the game on turn 3......

John

Now, we just need to update the Construction assisstant to handle this calculations.....LOL

P.S.

Happy Birthday Dan (saw the 35 years and 4 days remark on the other thread....LOL)

I just turned 36 in April, so yeah... we are grognards.

I am currently working on a new starbase... 6 sections, created in a hexagon, with 20 hull per section, and dual spinal mounts in each section.

Then again, one of my friends thinks that my newest creation is gross.....

Hull 9 with 4 spinal mounts
It only has 2 other weapons... small range 6 rotary guns, one on either side, for fighter defense.

I use it as a stand-off artillery unit in a fleet. I even designed figs for the ship.

John

As soon as I manage to get a digital camera.........LOL

I scratch build all of my figs from balsa and small bits of styrene, or anything else I get my hands on......
And I enjoy designing my own ships, so my fleets tend to be unique.

John

I remember when Dungeon and Dragons came out... it was in little white booklets, and you needed a copy of the chainmail rules to play.....LOL

I've used counters, but figurines just look better.

You all do realize that we are hijacking this thread....... we might want to mention Star Trek, and Starmada (OK, spirit of the thread preserved !!)

John