> > I recently had a "mildly heated" discussion with a SFBer.
> "I've seen a game of SFB. All you guys do is sit around and
"Or spend hours filling in Energy Allocation forms and inching across the
board in 32 impulses. Where's the fun in that"
In the SFB conversion work do you create any SSD's or is it just plain text.
Given Dr Tachyons rather fine ST bitmaps I think we can do a pretty good
simulation of an SFB SSD.
I'd also draw your attention to the ablative shields and other weapon
definitions in Full Trek
http://www.uwm.edu/~cthulhu/FT/full_trek.htm#Shields
sincerely
> I'd also draw your attention to the ablative shields and other weapon
Is the author of full trek on the list. I'm using his rules for my own version
using ST micro machines. And I just had an offer to run some
FT/EFSB
games at Strategicon(sp) in LA this fall. I would like to run my revision of
his rules past him and a few others well before the event. I also used Dr
Tacyon's (sp) ship control sheet outlines as well as schematics found on the
net for other ships to cover almost all the Micro Machines made (does any one
have schematics for shuttles, Kazon ships or Bajoran fighters).
If there is interest, and I can get the original authors ok, I'll post the
rules to the list. I can post them as a long letter, or an attached file, if
the list supports such (Jon???).
[...]
> Is the author of full trek on the list. I'm using his rules for my own
If those are Scott Field's rules, I don't think he's on the list any longer
due to RL priorities. However, I am in some limit contact with him (when RL
allows;) and can forward the request on to him if you'd like.
Mk
Where to start...
The SSD's I've translated were done on Corel Draw 6, so if you have a program
that can read cdr files, I can send them to you.
Phasers:
SFB Trans. 0-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 25-30 31-36
ph-4 6 6 5 4 3 2 1
ph-1 3 3 2 1 0 0 0
ph-2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0
ph-3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
ph-G 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Trans. is what I call them. It is a little confusing, but makes game
play easier. Damage from phasers: 1-2=0, 3-4=1, 5-6=2. All sixes get
roll one extra die. Phasers can shoot at fighters and missiles, but
only at ranges of 0-6, and each phazer gets only 1 die regardless of
type, exception ph-g wich get 4 dice (don't you just hate Hydran Gatling
Phasers).
Shields: Exactly the same number of boxes. DamCon boxes are changed into
Shield Generator (SG) boxes. Each SG box lets you repair 1 damage sheild box
per turn. If all your SG boxes go down, all your shield immediately go to
zero. SG boxes are numbered to make recorded keeping easy.
Heavy Weapons: NO OVERLOADS. PERIOD.
0-6 7-12 13-18 19-24 25-30 31-36
Photon 5 4 3 2 1 0 to hit 2d6 2d6 2d6 2d6 2d6 0 damage Disrupter 6 5 4 3 2 1
to hit 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 1d6 damage Helbore 5 4 3 2 1 0 to hit 5d6 4d6 3d6
2d6 1d6 0 damage PPD 0 5 4 3 2 1 to hit 0 5d6 4d6 3d6 2d6 1d6 damage
Fusion 2d6 minus range.
Notes: Disrupter: Whenever a disrupter rolls a "6" for damage, roll 1d6 extra
damage to the hull damage track even if the facing shield is still up.
Disrupters are shield piercing!
Helbores and PPD's. If it hits one shield, divide the damge rolled by
4, one-half goes to the facing shield, one quarter to the two adjacent
shields. If it hits dircetly on the line dividing two shields, divided
the damage rolled by 2, and apply one-half the damage rolled to both
shields. Defender chooses from the shields damaged where odd damage is scored.
Fire Control: All Bridge, Aux, Emer, and Flag boxes are translated into fire
control. Note that you will need to use one fire control to fire at each enemy
unit, including ships, bases, drone waves and fighter squadrons.
More latter,
> Donald Hosford wrote:
> Has anyone tried this idea:
Well, that's mostly my idea, but I don't want 1 ship per page, I want many
ships per page. This means trashing most of the SSD.
> Imre A. Szabo wrote:
> Where to start...
(Massive Snippage!)
> More latter,
Has anyone tried this idea:
(Warning...heritical thoughts follow....)
How about using the SFB SSDs with the FT RULES?
You know...just convert all of the SFB systems to FT equivilents, and then
just use all of those SFB SSDs we all have.
(Heritical thoughts are cleared...)