Recent content by Bendigeidfran

Granted, Alien didn't bother trying to explain gravity on the ship - probably for the better - did the franchise ever try to explain it?

I don't suppose anyone could suggest a place to get the "Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual" at something under the absurd $60+ USD price?

technically, inverse bilinear *transformation*... But I'd agree with the application of the Lorentz function.

How many people were on the Sulaco? It seems a trend in the Alien franchise that huge ships are run by a very small group of people.

I like the 2" left or right of bore sight idea.

I missed that in the forums but that's what I was trying to capture (the no-fire-on-failure). The only difference is whether movement stops on contact or can continue on. I think Triggy's is better!

Part of the problem is that there is no size for the ships in ACTA. The priority levels define power, not scale, so based purely on ACTA we don't know if the Hermes is bigger or smaller then a Blue Star or how it compares to Hyperions or Drakh Amu. Not even damage scores really tell about...

Not that I know the full history of CBD from the earliest, but I'm not a big fan of a rule being designed so it has special exceptions not inherent to ships. Ships without Interceptors obviously don't benefit from SA that increase those - but CBD had to specifically exclude all 1-weapon ships...

Considering 18 pages of the White Star thread is a bit much to hijack I thought I'd start something new to talk about one of the suggested changes. In the thread there was talk about revising the Skin Dancing so it's less a Ramming technique and more like what we see on the screen. Some of the...