| By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 09:21 am: Edit |
This is less of a question about ships in and of themselves: but rather, a question on the drone-like seeking weapons some of them use - and how players keep track of them while in flight.
For the sake of comparison:
Over in Federation Commander, Ship Cards have damage tracks for individual drones, Carnivon death bolts, Omega tachyon missiles, and so on and so forth. Samples of each can be seen here, here, and here respectively.
However, with the exception of certain Juggernaut Empire SSDs - which present Shriek missile damage boxes in an almost fighter-like manner - most SSDs for empires using drone-like weapons do not show equivalent damage tracks; not least since there is only so much room on a given SSD to try and place everything.
So, I was wondering: is there such a thing as a play aid available anywhere, which allows players to mark damage on drones, death bolts, tachyon missiles, or other such munitions in flight, as a separate sheet of paper to the actual SSD these weapons are launched from? Or, indeed, to keep tabs on which munition has such-and-such a set of modifications?
And, if not, might it be something that could be offered at some point in the future?
I was thinking of this in light of the Omega "campaign compatibility" discussion elsewhere on the BBS: in terms of what, if anything, Mæsron players might need in order to keep track of damage to any tachyon missiles they have in flight.
But, in principle, this would also apply to drones, death bolts, or other such munitions also.
| By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 10:12 am: Edit |
I just wright down what drone was fired from what launcher. Impulse and turn of launch. Type of drone as well. Then put narks at the end if fired at and not destroyed.
Drone rack:
A: type-IM explosive. Turn 2 imp12. (damage) Mind you the client does a lot of that if you set it up for seekers.
| By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Saturday, July 12, 2025 - 06:37 pm: Edit |
Module A+ had "Unit Tracking Cards" that were business card size to be printed front and back. Each had a plasma card, drone, drone stack, shuttle, & mine.
I found them to be a little flawed but the idea was sound. "Public" info on top side and when ID'd or impact made, flip over to the down side with all the "secret" details (e.g. type-IV, swordfish, etc)
Made my own and laminated them for reuse. Of course my eyes were much better then so I used small fonts. What a drag it is...
| By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 02:43 pm: Edit |
With how prevelant custom business card printing is nowadays…
| By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 08:50 pm: Edit |
(R1.34) Module YG3 General P-CC - In module G2, the YIS for this unit is Y65, but in G3 it is listed as Y60 and in YG3 the YIS is Y65. What is the correct year in service? - Ken Kazinski, 13 Jul 2025.
| By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 01:53 am: Edit |
Do the Romulan Freight Eagles mount their cargo pallets on top of the hull or below?
Same question for the Romulan Sublight Freighters (FRT).
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - 03:50 pm: Edit |
Below. This means the cargo pallets have their own landing gear.
(I only know because this was explained to me before.)
| By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 11:09 pm: Edit |
I have a question I hope someone can answer - Is there a Fed cruiser move cost one that is basically the Fed CA but has 2 photons, 2 plasma-Fs? Alternatively, is there another Fed ship 2/3rds or MC 1 that might work if jimmied around with a little. I am looking for a historical ship that doesn't have 4 photons that could maybe be used as a basis for a new Fed TCC. I don't want conjectural ships or anything like that. Just ships that could legit make sense against the TD7. You guys know what balanced kind of looks like, I am looking for those.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 11:22 pm: Edit |
I would never want to see a Fed TCC without four photons. Anything like you describe would not be a Fed.
| By Mike West (Mjwest) on Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 11:31 pm: Edit |
The Federation has 2xPhot, 2xPl-F ships based on the DD, NCL, and NCA. There are full Pl-F versions of the FF (2xPl-F) and DW (3xPl-F). There are two ships that replace a pair of drones with a pair of Pl-F: the BCF and DNF.
What the Federation does not have, is any ship based on the CA that uses Pl-F.
| By Eddie E Crutchfield (Librarian101) on Friday, July 18, 2025 - 09:59 am: Edit |
There is also the lost Kublai version from was it CL1 with 2 G-Torps
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, July 18, 2025 - 10:32 am: Edit |
Eddie, that was indeed in Captain's Log #1, as scenario (SL19.0) Surprise Package.
| By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, July 18, 2025 - 01:19 pm: Edit |
http://www.starfleetgames.com/discus/messages/12031/43540.html?1752859150#POST878261
| By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 01:46 am: Edit |
Why does the Armed Priority Transport (at least as printed in AM), have such a huge APR suite?
For the ships role it seems disproportionate to other civilian cargo ships and to me, just doesn't make a lot of sense. It's nice to have if you're the ships crew, but from an economic standpoint, wouldn't more cargo make more sense for a fast civilian cargo vessel?
And I'm sure some of you might say... "The APR helps it get its cargo to where it's going". To which I would say another Phaser or two would probably do even better. So I'm curious why such a huge APR deck compared to almost any other ship in the game except the largest of large cruisers or dreadnaughts etc.
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 08:59 am: Edit |
I believe the gist of it is that both the warp and impulse power are keeping the thing moving at flank speed (for that "priority" part of its name). The reactor deck has to take care of the rest. Housekeeping is 2½. The phaser is another 1. That leaves a point and a half, which can be used for the transporter and tractor if needed. I.e., this is not a ship anyone operating it wants to see slowed down to divert power elsewhere, and the reactor deck reasonably assures that it won't have to do so.
| By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 10:13 am: Edit |
When adding death bolts to generic ships, do the LS/RS firing arcs become 360?
| By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 12:14 pm: Edit |
Jessica, its housekeeping is 1.5 in practical terms - it only has minimum shields and can use low power fire control. Also the phaser is an only a ph-3. So paying for all that leaves three extra reactor power, most likely for either ECM or negative tractor, depending on the situation.
| By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 12:39 pm: Edit |
Ken, what ships are you looking at that have boxes with noted LS/RS arcs that get death bolts? I haven’t done an exhaustive survey of generic units, but generally speaking I’m finding the case where it’s a pair of 360 degree boxes where individual weapons, namely plasma-D racks, are called out as being LS/RS.
That said, (FD20.0) notes that death bolts use the rules for drones except for “some special changes”, i.e. what is covered in (FD20.0). Nothing in that rule contradicts (FD1.21), so that rule controls - death bolts may be launched with any facing as long as their target is in in their FA arc.
| By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 07:51 am: Edit |
The AxSCS is the unit I was looking at.
| By Alex Chobot (Alendrel) on Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 11:48 am: Edit |
(R1.31) says to use the weapons specified in (R1.27), which says drones in W2 mounts are 360 degrees.
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