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Maybe some more Support Items for the Omega Octant. Such as Ground Bases. Possibly also the Damage Charts for the various PH-4 equivalents. I'd say someone would have worked on these. Sorry, but I don't have the software at present to do any myself.

By Eric Smith (Badsyntax) on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 12:15 pm: Edit

How about a Planetary Repair Dock, or Colony Base, and/or a shipyard from F&E for SFB?

There are lots of X1R ships that aren't in F&E yet, and could have a stat table for "playtest".

No Kzinti BBL in SFB *or* F&E.

By Richard B. Eitzen (Rbeitzen) on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 07:55 pm: Edit

Take a King Eagle, remove the cloaking device, replace the Plasma-R with 4 FA Disruptors and the 2 Plasma-F with two Type A drone racks (Y175 refit to type B, etc etc).

Voila, Kling Eagle.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 08:28 pm: Edit

For the FC Ship Cards, could it be possible to do a quartet of the Inter-Stellar Concordium's "War" classes: the DNW, CW, and DW from Module R9, and/or the HCW from Module R12?

To be clear, these are the ones built in the capital shipyard, and which are capable of operating at fleet speeds; as opposed to the "system" classes (DNM, NCA/NCS, NDD, NFF) converted out in the semi-isolated cantonments.


Also, does Daniel have any playtest rules on file for the ISC in either edition of Starmada? Even if the PPD wasn't ready to go just yet, perhaps some of the plasma variants (such as the CAT) could be an option, should provisional rules covering the aft-firing torpedoes be viable at this point.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 24, 2019 - 06:44 pm: Edit

Various nominations from CL53
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Lyran strike cruisers (finish the Lyran trimaran story) [SVC unfamiliar with this.]
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new omega sector ships [There were five in CL53.]
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I would like to see whatever SSDs that help to get us X2. [Nothing that could fit in a Captain's log would have anything to do with X2 getting done sooner.]
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I would like to see the Yorl Septs and Chomak for the LMC, and the remaining Omegan Empires, along with the late Omegan units. [SVC thinks this sounds like stuff for new modules not Captain's Log but asked SPP to look into it.]
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I’d like to see new x ships [Certainly one possibility. Didn't happen in CL53 but there are many issues in the future.]
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Want zosman background data [SVC thought we did that a couple of issues back. Not sure what you actually want but Gary C did mention wanting to do something about Zosmans but we were not sure what game he wanted to do it for. Doing it for FC just means doing stuff already in SFB.]
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How about x2 rules? [Not in Captain's Log. They go in Module X2. After the experience SVC had trying to make everyone happy with X2 he more or less lost interest. Nobody wanted the only logical way to do it and nobody could agree on any alternate plan.]
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How about new wyn ships [Got any more specific ideas than that? obviously you want something but such a general request means we will guess wrong on what you wanted.]
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How about the first bunch of Hydran ships that were too awful to be included in the Y-Modules? [SVC is not familiar with this situation but you can ask Steve Petrick if he'd do it.]

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 24, 2019 - 06:53 pm: Edit

VARIOUS NOMINATIONS FROM CL53
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Brothers of the anarchist WYN-FED
[Funny thing, the Anarchist ships come from a grid and the WYN were never on the Grid.]
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Brothers of the anarchist WYN-JUGGY
[Funny thing, the Anarchist ships come from a grid and the JUGGIES were never on the Grid. Doesn't really seem like they need to be.]
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Fed Old Heavy Survey Cruiser [in CL53]
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Light Battleships including Seltorian. [Should go into R13, not Captain's Log.]
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New federal republic ships [Five of them in CL53]
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Omega octant war cruisers. [Petrick might design them for the next omega module and preview two of them in some future issue.]
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Omega x ships [Petrick might design them for the next omega module and preview two of them in some future issue.]
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Actually, some phaser IV equivalents and ground base equivalents (and battle station and base station equivalents) are long overdue for Omega.
[Petrick might design them for the next omega module and preview two of them in some future issue.]
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FRD for omega
Bombers for Omega
jindarian freehold
Larger bases for Omega
Paravians for Omega
Defense satellites for Omega
[Petrick might design them for the next omega module and preview two of them in some future issue.]

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 24, 2019 - 07:09 pm: Edit

VARIOUS NOMINATIONS FROM CL53
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New Orion pirate ships
[Such as? Seriously, generalities don't lead us to publishable ships.]
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BTW, in future, everybody limit yourself to a few nominations. Making dozens of them just floods the zone and none of them get any consideration.
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Some sort of Orion spy ship.
[Other than a cloaked LR what would you suggest?]
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How about a description of the uniforms used by Dinah races
[who are Dinah?]
How about discription of the different uniforms of The races
[someone with more fashion creativity is going to have to do that. ADB doesn't focus that way.
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How about rules for the great barrier ?
[roll a die, you live or you die. What rules would actually be of any use at all?]
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the remaining Light Battleships
more of the Picket Carriers.
[they go in R13 not Caplog.]
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Repair Cruisers
[These were tested in F&E and declared game breaking. they will never be published, and really, would have no function in SFB that could not be handled by a repair freighter.]
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By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 24, 2019 - 07:19 pm: Edit

MORE NOMINATIONS FROM CL53
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Counjecteral orion starbase
SVC SEZ: DOES NOT FIT THEIR MODUS OPERANDI
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There can't be more than 16 ships in a Captain's Log?
[no, there cannot. Too many other things to do. You can rightly assume that those who want scenarios want ships cut to 8.]
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In the Hydran R section of Module Y1, it stated that the Hydrans used all-new designs for their W-series ships because their sublight ships were too awful to convert to warp. (This was in contrast to the other empires that used refitted sublight ships for their W-series ships.)
However, doing this is kinda pointless as they would be either conjectural warp ships that never existed (because they were too awful to convert, they never were) or they would be sublight ships, and with few exceptions there are no published sublight ships. (The Romulans are sublight because that's all they had. There were sublight Gorns to give them someone to fight. There were sublight Paravians to give the Gorns someone else to fight. No one else got any sublight ships, so it would be pointless to publish any Hydran sublight ships.)
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The Zosman background is missing one important detail - what they look like!
[Interesting, but that's a picture not an article and might make a good Prime Directive profile. Maybe Jean can find an artist who can conceptualize them?]
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Wish there were more stories on the omega sector
[somebody outside of ADB would need to write them. Even so, they could never be the cover story as it would wreck sales.]
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Something I have been meaning to clarify is that SFB and only SFB is the official history. Comments in FC, ACTA, and Shapeways that maybe some of those never-built ships actually were built are just designed to sell miniatures.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, June 24, 2019 - 07:37 pm: Edit

EVEN MORE NOMINATIONS FROM CL53
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Real x-versins of Neotholian frigates and destroyers.
[IF we can warp history enough to say that the hollowed out hulls were still floating around, they would NOT be eligible for X1 or X2 technology. While theoretically possible that the Tholians might after GW build some new Neo hulls, this would be so expensive as to not be worth the bother.]
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Ships captured by Orions converted to pirate use
[lacking stealth they would never be workable. Even the OK6 was an expensive propaganda stunt.]
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By Steve Petrick (Petrick) on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 - 05:43 am: Edit

There is a new X-ship in Captain's Log #53, the Gorns got an X version of their destroyer, cheaper to build, and can be upgraded to a BDX later.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 05:17 am: Edit

Request WYN Fish DWSX MAKO-SX

The WYN MAKO-X lacks a scout stablemate for a Fish X-destroyer squadron.
FEDS is also unaware of the existence of any WYN Fish X-Scout other than an HWX configured as an X-Scout in Y190.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 06:45 am: Edit

Request a Fed DWSX

The Fed DWS lacks a scout stablemate for a X-destroyer squadron.
FEDS is also unaware of the existence of any small X-Scout (destroyer/frigates size) for the Federation. (The Fed SCX is more like a war cruiser sized X vessel.)

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 08:22 am: Edit

Now that it has an acceptable back-story to use, I'd love to see the KC6R be published.

Bonus points: It can be a Middle Years Federation Commander ship card, too!

By Trent J. Telenko (Trent_Telenko) on Friday, December 25, 2020 - 06:47 pm: Edit

I'd like to see a late General War Heavy fighter FCR based on a conversion of existing frigate FCR's.

In F&E terms it makes no economic sense to build new FCR's starting Y182 because there is not enough game time left for the replacement fighter factors to pay off.

If, however, you are converting a crippled FCR to a larger battle frigate or DW hull with an increase of six fighter factors to eight fighter factors of cargo space via "conversion during repair." Then you are getting more utility from an existing asset to fill the FCR build slot for that turn and support the conversion of existing carriers from one space to two space heavy fighters for the combat potential.

This would make these heavy fighter FCR non-cookie cutter ships.

Essentially any available crippled FCR hull in the Y181-Y184 time period in the wrong place at the right time would wind up a 2-5(8) or a 2-6(8) heavy FCR hull.

Some races would get battle frigate FCR's. Some empires would get DW hulled FCR's. And some empires might get one or two of each type depending on the base hulls that were crippled.

A Klingon "Adopt a Ship Conversion" vice a "Gift ship" program by Klingon planets in the late war years might be a nice fiction back story here.

Or even better, have Federation F-101 contractors & planetary governments (Mars?) kick this off.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, December 25, 2020 - 07:26 pm: Edit

Trent, where is the Topic for this nomination? Is it new?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, December 26, 2020 - 12:18 am: Edit

Yeah, that really needs to be under ENTIRELY NEW CLASSES not Captain's Log.

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Friday, March 12, 2021 - 01:10 am: Edit

Okay, this is a bit of an oddity. But how about design studies for General War era non-trimaran Lyran heavies? We have the BCE and DNE going into the Middle Years but these are quickly phased out in favor of the (apparently much more effective and successful) Wildcat and Lion. What might have been if the trimarans had not worked out? How might the Lyrans have refined these designs?

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Friday, March 12, 2021 - 01:03 pm: Edit

Would the new war destroyer be base on the heavy frigate? And the war cruiser on the heavy destroyer?

By Steven Zamboni (Szamboni) on Friday, March 12, 2021 - 09:36 pm: Edit

The ISC also had those Early Year twin boom ships. Perhaps there's some common engineering issues with that shape (aside from the ISC being 15% bigger).

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 11:23 pm: Edit

> Would the new war destroyer be base on the heavy frigate? And the war cruiser on the heavy destroyer?

The same design theme, yeah. Extend the existing center section to make room for additional systems.

I'm not sure how much they'd differ, overall stat-wise, from the existing CW and DW. But comparing existing models... the Royal Tiger is a full /25/ boxes (not counting shields) short of the Lion. Refits and addons that the Royal Tiger never got would make up for some of that but nowhere near all, I think. And it's lower maneuverability, too.

By Gregg Dieckhaus (Gdieck) on Saturday, March 13, 2021 - 11:37 pm: Edit

I like Chris Nasipak's idea of what if the Lyrans had not built Trimaran ships...

By Chris Nasipak (Ecs05norway) on Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 09:28 pm: Edit

If nothing else, sketching up the ships is giving me ideas for what the W-series Lyrans would look like.