An anomalous gravity belt near an uninhabited star system is a gave yard of
lost ships. The belt grabs ships out of hyperspace and holds them crewless and
waiting in slow orbit around a white dwarf. A treaty between to antagonistic
nations divides the system into two polar half's with the stars equatorial
orbit as a neutral zone. Privateers are hired to retrieve the strange wrecks
from the neutral zone at there own risk. Special rules: Map floats east to
west. Privateer ships enter from North and South (opposite ends of table) at
same speed (roll 2D6 for starting speed). No ship may leave map by FTL. Six
Derelict vessels are in center of table heading east to west at speed 8.[six
playing cards are placed face down on center of table] To capture a Derelict
vessels you must board it and hold it. Boarding is done using the standard
methods. If a unmaned ship is boarded and held uncotested (no one else on
board) for two turns (after turn boarded) the prize crew actavates ships
systems in the following order. If a system is damaged it must be fixed unless
noted seperatly all system are undamaged. turn system
3 1/2 maneuver drive speed, Power core, Bridge, Life
support. 4 1 sheild, full maneuver drive, 1 fire control all
weapons -- Wave guns
may start chargeing 5 2 sheilds, full maneuver drive, 2 fire control all
weapons 6 all above plus Sensors and jammers and a third Fire control 7 all
above plus cloak and a forth Fire control 8 add one more fire control per
turn. FTL works but can not be used in this senerio. The prize ship is yours
once you get it off your side of the table. The other way to get the ship off
the table is to tow it with a tug. To grab a ship the tug must match speed and
direction (plus or minus 1) of the ship for one turn while staying 3 or less
units away from the ship. The tug and ship change speed a rate equal to the
tugs speed times (the total mass of
both ships/the tugs mass)
Speed towing = speed tug * ((Mass tug + mass Towed)/ Mass tug)
A speed 6, mass 10, tug with a 20 mass ship moves as a speed 2 ship. Victory
Conditions: To win you must retrive more points in ships than you lose getting
them. Alternate Victory Conditions: One player on each side has 25% insurace
on his letter of mark. If he takes more than 10% damage he will get 25% of his
ships cost as pay whether or not the mission succeeds.
When a ship is scanned or is at boarding range use below table to determine
ship: Spades A. Millennium Falcon 8. 1701B 2. Quark 9. 1701C 3. Jupiter II 10.
1701D 4. Searcher J. Galactica 5. MST3K Q. Protector 6. 1701 K. Red Dwarf 7.
1701A Hearts A. Fireball XL5 8. D7 2. Small Freighter 9. White Star 3. Large
Freighter 10. U.S.S. Lexington 4. East Indiaman J. Lexx 5. EAS Charon Q. Last
Starfighter 6. Slave II K. Imperial Star Distroyer 7. Honor Harington type
Ship of the wall
Clubs A. Free Trader 8. Trade Federation Carrier 2. Cloaked Blockade Runner 9.
Clipper 3. Romulan War Bird 10. Queen Marry 4. BattleStar Atlantia J. Cylon
Base Star 5. Cardasian Q. Moya 6. Dominion K. The Pride 7. Ferengi Diamonds A.
Talyn 8. Space Ghost's Phantom Cruiser 2. Space Battleship Yamato 9. Defiant
3. Space 1999 Eagle 10. Protoss Carrier 4. Mon Calamari Cruiser J. Nord II 5.
Darkstar Q. Q Ship 6. Borg Cube K. Last Star Fighter 7. Draconian Flag Ship
I will post SSD or links to ships at a latter date but any speculation on how
to represent these ships is welcome
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I will post SSD or links to ships at a latter date but any speculation on how
to represent these ships is welcome
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SSD's? I'm trying to figure what to use for figs in several cases! ;->=
Space Ghost's and the XL5 are close, right?
Cross genre can be a b***h, but I think Dean Grunberg's site:
http://www.homestead.com/star_ranger/starranger.html
has the link to his excellent, many times at GenCon, game info at:
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/rlyehable/ft/multiverse/crossover.html
Gives you B5, BG, SAaB, ST, and SW ships.
FYI: My Netscape STILL screws up the images; M$IE works fine.
Come to think it, I'm having trouble placing one or two of the derelicts. The
Pride sounds familiar, as in a discussion of a book that didn't appeal.
Likewise, I can't place Protoss or Talyn.
The_Beast
-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon
One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler
> When a ship is scanned or is at boarding range use below table to
Hmmmm... trying to picture how these different ships would be done in FT
terms. Let's see if I can get a crack at it.:)
(I'll just quietly snip the ones I'm not familiar with.:)
> Spades
Destroyer-sized vessel, a pulse torpedo and PDS (maybe 2 PDS), weak hull
but with armor, cargo space traded for drive space. Probably something half
akin to the "Free Trader" in FB1.
> 8. 1701B
Thrust 4, Average Hull, Screen-1, pulse torps and beams.
> 2. Quark
Shuttle.:)
> 9. 1701C
Less thrust than 1701C, more weapons.
> 10. 1701D
Thrust 4, Weak hull, Screen-2, pulse torps and beams.
> J. Galactica
Thrust 1, Strong hull, heavily armored, a few more fighters than beam weapons.
> 6. 1701
Thrust 2, Average hull, Screen-1, more beams and fewer pulse torps.
> 7. 1701A
Same as 1701, though maybe more pulse torps-to-beams ratio.
> Hearts
Similar to 1701, but with hull armor and fewer weapons.
> 9. White Star
Light cruiser sized vessel, thrust-3A or so, assign weapons as you like
(not AS familiar with B5...).
> Q. Last Starfighter
Light cruiser sized vessel, thrust-6A, small beam armament and tons of
SMRs ("Death Blossom").
> K. Imperial Star Distroyer
Thrust 2, average hull with armor, good fighter complement.
> 7. Honor Harington type Ship of the wall
Thrust 2, weak hull, screen-1 or screen-2, SMLs as main armament, Class
1 beams as secondary armament, strong PDS with ADFC.
> Clubs
Much larger version of the STD, with weaker hull and higher proportion of
fighters to ship-to-ship armaments.
> 2. Cloaked Blockade Runner
Depends on which kind of blockade runner... if you're thinking of the Meteor
class from the old whatever-it-was-called cross-genre game, I'd say
strong and advanced drives, needle beams and pulse torps.
If you're thinking of something else, I wouldn't know.:)
> 3. Romulan War Bird
Large ship, average hull, screen 2, cloaking device, low thrust, armed to the
gills with pulse torps and beams.
> 4. BattleStar Atlantia
Same as Galactica.
> J. Cylon Base Star
Thrust 1, Average hull, decent ship-to-ship armament but loaded to the
gills with fighters. Most of the fighters would be attack fighters.
> 5. Cardasian
Same general mold as other Star Trek stuff.
> 6. Dominion
Probably similar to Kra'Vak.
> 7. Ferengi
Similar to other ST stuff, only with lots of cargo space and fewer weapons.
> Diamonds
Thrust 1 or 2, Strong hull, heavy armor, wave gun or nova cannon, main
armament of LOTS of beams but with a few SMLs and fighter bays. Big ship.
> 9. Defiant
Heavy cruiser size, cloaking device, over-optimized in favor of pulse
torps rather than beams or PDS.
> 4. Mon Calamari Cruiser
Similar to Star Destroyer but smaller.
> 6. Borg Cube
Mass 700ish Sa'Vasku monster with no wombs but with the ability to regenerate
all their lost biomass between battles.
Thus spoke Andrew Apter on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:42:25AM -0400 :
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What a cool idea... if I ever get the PBeM engine going with all the bells and
whistles, I might try running it online!:)
As an update for those who might be interested...
The alpha game is beginning to get going properly, and though no-one
has entered weapons range yet it seems that everyone has decided on a target
group. Could turn out messy yet!:)
Find the current turn maps at
http://ftpbem.imhotep.org.uk/
I have starting posting the crazy ships for this senerio at
> I have starting posting the crazy ships for this senerio at
And how does this unsophisticated user view or save the files off
I-drive ?
It appears I cannot see them, but I can save them to my (non-existant)
I-drive account.
> Tom McCarthy wrote:
> I have starting posting the crazy ships for this senerio at
Similar problem here. I get the message
"An unknown error has occurred. Please attempt to log into your idrive again.
If you continue to experience problems, feel free to contact idrive support
from the "Contact Us" section of our Help pages.
We apologize for any inconvenience."
:-(
opps! Try going to https://www.idrive.com/
and visit andrewdrive the files are in my storage area. Looks like the direct
URL only works on my home system. I will fix this as soon as I free space on
my main page.
Andy A
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Thanks, Andy!
In spite of warning that I could only access if Javascript was enabled, I made
it in after about half a dozen errors.
By the way, I believe your Eagle is a Hawk. ;->=
The_Beast
-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon
One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler
Hi all, umm...I just can't seem to get more than a couple files from this
page. Any chance you could email them to me, either individually or in a zip
or some such. That I-Drive is causing nothing but problems every time I
try to access it. Thanks.
BTW, sorry to ask on the list but I don't have his private email. :-)
Later, Alexander Kettle, B.Sc. Upper Canada Battle Group squawk@csolve.net
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