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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 4864989" data-attributes="member: 1">Thanks!  It's a long way from done (I'm waiting for art at the moment).  I used "iconic" ships from the things I wanted to be able to simulate.  They won't feature in the final game, obviously - but analogs of them will.  It's a tricky issue.  Basically, a ship's relative power cna only really be determined by extensive playtesting (the biggest weakness of an exception based system, where anything goes).  George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry weren't using a universal TV point-buy handbook when they designed their ships; the just decided "this would be cool" and did it. So designing a ship means deciding what you want it to do, designing the stat block for it, and playtesting it as much as possible.  It means we can't have a ship construction manual or anything, unfortunately.    What do you mean by double width? I certainly agree that broadsides are a visual which the system should be able to emulate.  Again, the exception based system allows for that: just design a ship with broadside attacks.  Off the top of my head I can't recall the hexes per sheet, but four poster sized maps (or a dining room table).  It didn't really prove to be an issue in the game we played - and that was a much smaller area than intended.  But it's something I'll be keeping an eye on during playtests.  They accelerated to around 12-15 in the playtest in order to keep their turning circles within reason.  They could go to 30, but I don't imagine that'll happen often, unless we design a ship with some very tight turning maneuvers at speed.  Yup.  It would be defined in the stat block.    I haven't fully decided.  At the moment I like the idea of the player in question handing his stat card over to the player who captured his ship.  The ship, however, is at crippled status due to a skeleton crew consisting of a boarding party.  that player could then attempt "repairs" by adding more crew.   Not even close to.  That section really is nothing more than some notes I jotted down one night.  Yeah, I've seen game designs like that.  Again, no reason it can't be done on a case-by-case basis.  You just note in a targetted system's stat entry that it can't be targetted until something else has been destroyed before it.  Coming. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  It means 6 men can be transported per round. The stat block ebtry should (when finished) define the capablity of that boarding party.  Well, if some members of a squadron change to a different speed to the rest, they've effectively split into two squadrons.  A squadron has a single set of actions - you don't control the individual ships.  Possibly.  That's just a ship design thing though.  They're really just rough examples: the biggest challenge is going to be the bit where we go through and carefully design each ship.  Right now, we just need something useable in there for playtesting.  Each missile coming in rolls 1d20 and explodes on 11 or more.  That's separate to its to-hit roll.  Thanks!  It's really useful! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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