Drone Bombardment
Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: Star Fleet Battles: SFB Proposals Board: New Rules: (FD) New Drones: Drone Bombardment
By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 03:57 pm: Edit

These are the rules that I use for campaign scenarios that involve off map drone bombardment.

Drone Bombardment rules

Any comments, suggestions or blazing criticism welcome.

Thank you!

By Stewart W Frazier (Frazikar2) on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 07:39 pm: Edit

Not sure you want to tie this to only '12' packets without testing...

By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 08:04 pm: Edit

12 packets seemed to work well for my group spanning over a dozen years.
It corresponds to a complete unloading of all drones from all racks of three factor (4) F&E DB ships.

All that said, I'd love for someone to do further testing. I'll put up an actual scenario in a little while.

By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Saturday, October 08, 2011 - 01:45 am: Edit

Comments from Facebook...

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William Batok - Bugger FB... The cost for these packets seen to be too high (you example shows the waves from a D-6D at 86 BPV per ship; I'd rather have an F-5 for that much. Conversely, if they're any cheaper, then you're effectively getting "something for nothig", and that doesn't work either. not sure what can be done about that...
Thursday at 1:19pm · Like




Are you familiar with Federation and Empire? The drone bombardment factors on an F&E ship basically is the equivalent COMPOT of a frigate.
The number of drones per packet is not set in stone, it's just what I've used in my SFB campaign. Do you have a suggestion that takes into account the number of drones a DB ship can actually fire, and not make it unbalanced?

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William Batok - You have Deployment Success modifiers based on race. that should NEVER be allowed. (And WHY a penalty for the Feds as far as that goes?)
Thursday at 1:21pm · Like




re: Racial modifiers
My reasoning for the modifiers is that the Kzintis are the undisputed masters of drone bombardment and they should get some sort of small tactical advantage on the SFB level. The Feds have a penalty simply because drones are not a primary weapon. Klingons use more drones than the Feds, hence the spread. I'm perfectly willing to ditch this if people don't like it.

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William Batok - Allowing choice in placement of packets after the scenario has begun doesn't make much sense. These packets were lauched 10-30 turns ago, their entry points and final Waypoint(s) should have to be specified BEFORE EA on turn one.
Thursday at 1:23pm · Like




re: decision of placement of packets
I agree, and that is actually how we play it. I'll make that more explicit in the next revision.

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William Batok I understand what you're trying to do here, incorporate something into a game that has a historical (and strategic) precedent. But it seens like a lot of work forlittle or no gain (in a tactical sense). Hope this helps...
Thursday at 1:26pm · Like

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