Idea for initiative

[Target]

Bigger fleets should be harder to command so how bout
-1initiative for every ship you have or something similar.

 

[Nightmares about Minbari]

Not sure I agree with the basic premise.

But that said, should be -1 per squadron or lone ship.

That way it penalises swarms/init sinking but not squadrons.

 

[Target]

The squadron idea is good, the first ship or squadron wouldn't be at negative & command will help a lot more.
The theory is if some takes a swarm of little ships vs a few big ships basically the swarm is going to lose intiative nearly all the time.
Drazi shouldn't be to badly off as they do have junphawks.

 

[Da Boss]

IMHO It would work if the racialI niaitive bonus and the availability of Command ships was was already the same

At present this means against say a Abbai/pak player with my Centauri /Minbairi /Vorlons/Shadows I increase my superiority of iniative - which I don't think is a good idea?

 

[Target]

Not sure what you are meaning? Sorry, probably me, i'll try to explain better

This is one way it could work
5 pt raid fleet
EA 3rd Age +1
Command Omega +3 (no minus for first ship/squadron free)
1 Olympus -1
1 Olympus -1
Total +2

Centauri +3
Balvarian +1 (no minus for first ship/squadron free)
2 Vorchans Squadroned -1
2 Vorchans Squadroned -1
1 Corvan -1
2 Kutai Squadroned -1
Total = int 0

Abbai -1???
Juyaca +1
Milani -1
Milani -1
Total =-2
Of course this is silly fleet unless there redundancy & Kotha's are better

Vree +0
5 squadrons of Xaar (3 per group) -4 ( includes 1 free squadron)
Total -4
Theory is it forces squadrons & use on int sinks hopefully will be less as 15 xaars could be -14 int. The enemy would always fire first & your fighters would be dominant not that my example it would matter.

Could even have a rule that if you more than 5 int worse than your opponent you have to move 1 more ship/squadron per point worse.
eg The vree with-14 would move 9 ships before the Centauri fleet moves a ship/squadron, 7 before the abbai moves & 11 ships for the EA.
A little chart would be helpful to speed things up & breaking squadrons would slow it downa little but the benefits out weigh the minute it take to calculate.
Theory, big ships could select targets far better than before. Add redundancy & it would be a pretty good system.

Hope it's not too confusing, but im not the best explaining things in the written form.