Recent content by Humbaba

I do not think you want a CQ modifier for range, but you could say that Intensify Defensive fire always works against enemies firing at >18” and can only be used against shorter ranged enemies with the successful CQ check. This is a subtlety that may correct a little more for the fact that in...

Let’s take an example of a Fed Heavy Cruiser vs. a Klingon D7; a classic match up. In the regular forward arc the Fed CA has 4 Phaser 1’s (Ph1), 4 Photon Torpedoes (PT), 2 Phaser 3’s, and 1 Drone (if the player can line it up perfectly straight on he can add another 2 Ph1’s). The Klingon has 3...

I'm not saying that you can force your battles to stay at 11", but it is important to know what you are trying to do and 11" is a good place to be (against the Federation at least - they like 7.5").

If you run the numbers carefully, you will find that each race has a critical range band(s) that can be exploited. Sitting out at 11", for example, causes the disrupter to do the same basic damage (but with no devistation on crits) as a photon torpedo, but you can fire it every round. A lot of...

I spent a significant amount of time this past weekend examining a thorny issue raised by Frankvas in his thread “So ….. Whos taking Kzinti to the upcoming tournament in the UK?” The specific issue raised has to do with spamming cheap drone ships to produce a critical mass of drones to...

I have been doing a fair amount of math on this and I believe that this is going to be a noticeable problem in tournament formats. From what I have worked out, the best solution is to drop the crew check for the defensive fire special action. This makes a huge difference for the closing phase...

and here I was expecting this to be a thread about how you were running the demo at Kublacon... :) see you there!

Well by my previous tracking sheets, without counting any ships twice I have about Earth Early Years 2+ Arm Earth Third Age 4+ Arm Earth Crusade 5+ Arm Psi Corp 2+ Arm Minbari 4+ Arm ISA 4+ Arm Vorlon 3+ Arm Shadows...

For the record, I am also pro TBS for simplicity's sake. Ironic that Burger and I are both on the TBS bandwagon over our namesake systems. I think that means that Triggy has hit the sweet spot.

Nice graph Burger - is the hook at the end caused by it being a summation of all of the 14+ hit results? It ammuses me that our graphs are so close to one another's. It would be interesting to see which system appeals to who as it comes down to a matter of taste (the taste for beamyness)...

OK – a quick thought on a compromise between the current beam system and the Burger Alternative Beam System (BABS). In order to preserve some of the “beamy” feel of re-rolls that some players like how about 1,2 = 0 3,4,5 = 1 6 = 2 with progressive re-rolls On re-rolls you need to keep rolling...

First I would like to say it is critical, in my opinion, that league fleets continue to be allowed. Many people have invested heavily in mixed fleets and suddenly disallowing their fleets through an update smacks of the Evil Empire. People will leave the hobby because of it. One way, though...

Using Burger's example above - as I understood it, all five flights are locked in one dogfight at the start of the dogfight phase, so red cannot attack with both "A" and "C" but with either "A" or "C" getting a +1 dogfight score (for the other flight) and green getting a +2 to the dogfight score...

A big thanks to Chernobyl for running another great tournament! Despite my lack of sleep I had a terrific time competing and meeting new players. As always the wrinkles that you throw into the format allow for days of enjoyable fleet tweaking and force speculation even before the convention...

That sounds like Shadows or Vorlons - both have a little trouble with the Admiral format.