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Originally Posted by Mustrum_Ridcully

I don't know what kind of scale you used for space fighters (e.g. do they take one hex, or does a squadron take one hex?) It seems there is a lot of space to them if you tried something like "1 hex = 1 starfighter". I think your illustration above indicates starfighters are smaller than 1 hex.

That's right; a squadron is a hex. I made a bunch of homemade counters, but I don't have them in a format I can upload here, but it's clear when you have the counters. I need to find someone to design all the counters for me.

A propos illustration:
Basically, Fire Arcs can be "exception based"? Each ship has its own, and sets a set of weapons to each firearc?

Yup; that's how the above diagram works. A diffeent ship will have those red, blue, green and yellow lines in different places. And the stat blocks already incidate which arcs a weapon can fire in.

Maybe one targeting option should always be to disable the weapons at one firing arc? I mean, disabling weapons, shields, life support, sensors, warp is a Star Trek trope That might also warrant some indicating in Federation vessels, maybe a special bonus to attack damage locations.

Yup; that's essentially a function of "how much detail do we want?" We could narrow it down as uch as we want, although is that a good exchange in favour of fun gameplay?

Do damage locations have their own hit points, does damage transfer between ship and location?

For the sake of simplicity, I'd say yes and no respectively.

Hmm... Should their be "Campaign Guidelines", on how to create a set of battles, where you can repair crippled ships or take over disabled or destroyed ships?

Maybe another book!

In this book, I eventually want a "scenario" section with various scenario setups and goals. For example, it doesn't have to be "kill all the enemy ships"; it could be "destroy this ground target", "board and capture this diplomatic ship", "escape through the asteroid field from the chasing TIE Fighters", etc.