Glen's ship designs

> From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>

Re: many references to odd number of hull boxes. Once I heard that FB2 allows
this I started doing it. Makes it much easier to remove one or two hull boxes
to squeeze in that "critical" system. I've noticed that I never have extra
space left over to add hull boxes.:)

> I also wrote

That's where the idea came from, after someone mentioned it after reading my
first draft of SFB Thrust.

As for HETs, the first one can be done safely, the following ones have a die
roll involved and failure causes a Bridge hit, a Main Drive hit, and 1D6
damage to hull; although, the HET still occurs but you won't be able to shoot.

> armor is really ablative shielding so is fixable

As long as everyone can do it then balancing shouldn't be a problem. I wanted
to reflect the ablative nature of SFB shields. That is also why I came up with
a rule on how many armor points you can have (equal to the mass of the screen
generators). The ship must also have a functioning screen generator.

> Gorns and Romulans are not restricted when using Wave Guns for

So I've heard. But, SFB had it before FT.

> Any beam can fire as class-1s (a class-3 can fire as 3 class-1s) at

Which is hard to judge except by experts such as yourself, Oerjan. Thanks for
the critique.

I doubt if anyone will play my version of SFB Thrust, but it was fun
reminiscing and making SSDs. I love designing ships and can hardly wait for
FB2 when I'll be in Thrust heaven:).

Glen

> Glen Bailey wrote:

> Re: many references to odd number of hull boxes.

That's exactly why this rule was introduced <g>

> I also wrote

Depends on the exact mechanism used, but any kind of "regenerating"
armour strongly favours the ship with the highest regeneration rate -
which usually means the largest one in those variants I've seen so far.
Most of them have been used in SFB-to-FT conversions, BTW.

> Gorns and Romulans are not restricted when using Wave Guns for

Guess which weapons inspired the Phalon Plasma Bolts...? <g> What I meant was
that the mechanic you're looking for sounds similar to the mechanics used for
the PBLs.

> Not to be used with regular FT designs unless they also receive the

Enough trial-and-error can make anyone an expert. After all it worked
for me...

> I doubt if anyone will play my version of SFB Thrust, but it was

<g>

Later,