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Tiigo · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject: BoM question

Hello everyone. I have a few questions regarding BoM:

1) Have all the rules that will make this up been determined/printed?
2) If so, where have they been printed, specifically,
3) Is there any plan to collect them into one source?

Thank you!

Dal Downing · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:29 pm Post subject: Re: BoM question

Tiigo · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:52 am Post subject:

Dal, thank you for the answers!

mjwest · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 1:58 am Post subject:

One point of clarification.

It is extremely likely that there will be more than one Borders of Madness product. Considering that a a product the size of Briefing #2 could cover only fighters/carriers/escorts and still leave the vast majority of such items out, I think it is safe to assume there will end up being multiple Borders of Madness products.
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marcus_aurelius · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject:

I sincerely hope that one of the future BoM products will be 1st Generation X-ships. Smile

Although I get the general impression that most people (other than me) would prefer carriers, fighters and scouts first. Sad

azureace · Ensign Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Posts: 2

I agree I would rather see the X-ships, not to say if they threw in carriers scouts and fighters with it that it would be a bad thing.(kind of satisfying both parties)

and a question for the OP, are you using the BoM rules for more options for play or as a means of playing larger SFB games in the FedCom rules?

Scoutdad · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject:

I too, would rather have the X-ships than the fighters/
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OGOPTIMUS · Captain Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 980

I'd just like to see scouts first, so that the "1st set" of X-ships from module X1 could all be done.
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mjwest · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:26 pm Post subject:

While mentioning X-ships, please keep something in mind: only Steve will write the rules for X-ships. Don't suggest how to do it; don't report on how you already do it; don't mention how you would do it. Steve has already said he doesn't need input on it, and has already shut down such discussion before. So, feel free to say you want to see them; but please stay away from the implementation.

X-ships will appear when Steve decides the time is right, and not before.
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Scoutdad · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject:

Mike: I remember the previous discussions re: how to work X-Ships in FC and I was not goign to re-open that can of worms. I was merely professing a preference for the item I'd prefer to see first when next Steve gets unallocated design time.
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Nerroth · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:50 pm Post subject:

Is there any indication on whether or not gunboats are leaning more towards being a part of BoM, or if they might be candidates for "vanilla" FC?
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mjwest · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:27 pm Post subject:

No decisions have been made on gunboats. They could be BoM; they could be pure FC. Don't know. Don't know when we will know.
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Dan Ibekwe · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 12:30 am Post subject:

I'd be happy to see scouts, X-Ships, PFs and fighters in roughly that order. As long as they're strictly optional - I like the lack of clutter in FC.
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ericphillips · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:22 am Post subject:

I'd like X-Ships, but the rules need to be simple, one to two pages. However, I think products compatible with general war era ships are better for FC as a product line. X, EY and MY don't appeal to me as much as FC's base era. I am looking forward to Omega though.

As for PFs, I really don't care to have them at all. Fighters as well. Luckily, as it is BoM, it is optional. I will get BoM, but probably wont use much. Scouts maybe.

What I think FC needs is ground bases. I'd like to play some scenarios with planetary defenses and so on. Also, simple variant drones (swordfish and spearfish) as simple swap outs would be good BoM.

I'd really love to have a C4 kind of product for FC. More simulator races, fleshed out to make them playable in a campaign game, and add the Juggy fleet from the CLs as playable races.

mjwest · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:31 am Post subject: