New to ACTA - I'm excited!

[silashand]

Agreed, it's one of the few paintschemes on a White Star that I've seen that truely matches the style of the show!!!

I don't know... it seems a little off color to me...

No, I jest. It looks freaking amazing. The paint job truely deserves all the praise its getting

It is indeed an excellent paint scheme, though I think I would have gone with a base of Space Wolves Grey instead of Codex Grey as you did. Seems just a tad dark to me, but that's JMO.

Cheers, Gary

 

[mrambassador1]

That is a BRILLIANT painting job on the whitestar. You're easily one of the best painters I've seen. As was said earlier you would give some of the old masters here a run for their money.

As a side note, you might want to get a copy of the counters sheets. If you're lucky your FLGS might have an old copy of the SFOS (Sky Full Of Stars an older supplement to the game before the current 2 edition) sheets, otherwise mongoose is allegedly putting out another one this year. It's got most of the ships in use (was made before 2 edition and doesn't have some of the newer ships or races) so you can use just about any ship you want from any race without needing all the miniatures. They're great for that time every now and then you just absolutely need a few Drazi Sunhawks to help out, but don't use them enough to warrant buying half a dozen minis for them.

Counters are also good for testing fleets before you buy, they really allow a great deal of flexibility in fleet selection.

Welcome to ACTA I'm sure you will love it.

 

[mrambassador1]

One more thing, ACTA isn't precious about its minis like Warhammer is. Older minis or ones in different scales are perfectly legal just as long as everyone knows what your ships are thats good enough for Mongoose. Also as stated Mongoose made counters for the ships and they are perfectly legal too.

As for official sites and newsletters this is the place to be and Signs and Portents is the official magazine for mongoose. You can download it from the link above, "Main" I believe.

Good luck and welcome aboard

 

[mrambassador1]

Agreed, it's one of the few paintschemes on a White Star that I've seen that truely matches the style of the show!!!

I don't know... it seems a little off color to me...

No, I jest. It looks freaking amazing. The paint job truely deserves all the praise its getting

It is indeed an excellent paint scheme, though I think I would have gone with a base of Space Wolves Grey instead of Codex Grey as you did. Seems just a tad dark to me, but that's JMO.

Cheers, Gary

Why am I getting a flash back to a Red Dwarf episode about painting the ship from Ocean Grey to Military Grey.... Or was it the other way around.

 

[Hindsight]

What a day!

First I want to thank everyone that has chimed in on the White Star's paint job. I really value that feedback. It got it's first game in today, and I think this is definetly something I am going to get into.

I picked up two more White Star's today, and a pair of Dag'kar Missile Frigates, by recommendation as a nice compliment to the ISA. I realize that I only get one allied point at Raid 5, but they let me play with it today, as I got used to the game. It looks like Battle 5 is going to be the goal size anyway for this campaign they are just starting. I'm excited.

I picked up the half circle with the arcs, and was turned on to Chernobyl's cards, for which I bought a pack of hard card holders for and was able to print out a trio of White Star's and a pair of Dag'kar's for my first game. Really helped me stay on top of what I had to work with.

I lost my first game, I think mostly due to just not knowing what deployment represented. I focused on killing the nearest target in my Minbari foe's force, and didn't take out his heavier weapons until much later. The game ended with one Battle ship against my one White Star that survived, and he had a set of Nial Fighters left on top of that, so we called it a win for him.

The store had four White Star's, but only two that didn't show really serious defects to the front section of the craft, so I bought the two that I hoped wouldn't give me any trouble, and I hope to prime them tomorrow morning for an evening paint session.

Thank you again for the warm welcome, and all the feedback. I've jumped right in, and I'm really glad I did.

Thanks again!

 

[Lord David the Denied]

Welcome aboard, Hindsight. The noble Centauri Republic weeps to see another fall for the propaganda of the corrupt ISA...

 

[Hindsight]

I have completed my recent purchases, and their Narn allies. I realize that this is one too many Narn ship to be a legal ISA Raid 5 list. I purchased these towards a Battle 5 list at my local store, that would allow for 2 Raid ships as allies. I ordered a Sharlin today from the old AOG site, to use as a Tara'lin, and that makes up a good chunk of the list. I have a single raid point remaining, but Burger's Ship Viewer keeps giving me weird math, that if I add 4 Blue Stars, it ups my points from Battle 5 to Battle 6. Four Patrol level ships, becomes two Skirmish, which becomes 1 Raid right?

1 Tara'lin (1W) = 2 Battle
3 White Stars (3R) = 1.5 Battle
2 Dag'Kar (2R) = 1 Battle
4 Blue Stars (4P) = .5 Battle

Total: 5 Battle

Right? Could it be a bug in the Burger's Ship Viewer? It wants to say that list is 6 Battle. Am I doing something wrong?

Lastly, here are the photos of the painted ships. So I need 4 Blue Stars, and that Sharlin to arrive in the mail. What is a good place to order models from? My LGS only has so much in stock.

 

[CZuschlag]

Hindsight,

It's going to be spare for a little bit, because there has been an interruption in service from the casting shop. Well, more accurately, production is going to be restarted by Iron Wind Miniatures soon, after they get all the moulds and perhaps clean up a few of them -- they can be a bit old. I'm hoping that production will ramp up in about 2 months, so you might have to hold on just a bit longer.

Iron Wind does very good work (they do the Battletech stuff). I'm personally looking forward to their product for finishing my Early EA fleet.

 

[Hindsight]

I see, and I understand. Thank you.

That process began in July yes? Has there been any word since Matt's last post on the subject? An update on their progress, maybe an ETA?

My local store has a $100 boxed set for the ISA. It has four White Stars, two Gunships, four Blue Stars, and a good handful of other smaller ships, starfuries, nials, etc. I may just bite the bullet and buy that, and then at least if I find myself bored, I can always paint something up =)

I imagine that would satisfy my list building once the Sharlin arrives, at least until the new minis come out.

Any idea if my above math is correct? Is the problem with me, or is the problem with Burger's program?

 

[Foxmeister]

Four Patrol level ships, becomes two Skirmish, which becomes 1 Raid right?

Just a point on this. The FAP breakdowns are going to change when P&P comes out. In the current playtest rules, at Raid PL. 1 Raid would only buy you 3 Patrol ships. Similarly, at Battle, 1 Battle FAP would get you 1 Raid ships and 3 Patrol, so you may find you're one Bluestar too many going forward and find it hard to ever get the 4 Bluestar in a game.

I wouldn't put too much significance on this just yet as this isn't going to be set in stone until P&P comes out, but it is worth bearing in mind.

Regards,

Dave

 

[Burger]

1 Tara'lin (1W) = 2 Battle
3 White Stars (3R) = 1.5 Battle
2 Dag'Kar (2R) = 1 Battle
4 Blue Stars (4P) = .5 Battle

Total: 5 Battle

Right? Could it be a bug in the Burger's Ship Viewer? It wants to say that list is 6 Battle. Am I doing something wrong?

You are doing something wrong I'm afraid

The fleet you mention above would cost 2 Battle for the Tara'lin, 1 battle for 2 WS, 1 battle for 2 Dag'Kar. The remaining ships, 1 raid and 4 patrol, cannot be bought with just one battle point. You cannot split a battle point into 2 raid and then split one of the raid into 4 patrol... you can only split one of the raid into 2 skirmish, then one of the skirmish into 2 patrol. When re-splitting, you can only re-split one point, and you can't skip PLs.

Four Patrol level ships, becomes two Skirmish, which becomes 1 Raid right?

No, you are mixing and matching the FAP system here. If you're talking about battle points then you have to start with battle points and split down using the splitting method in the book, you can't start with patrol and buy up to make a battle. If you're counting patrol points then yes you are right, you can do this. So your fleet above is a valid 40 point Patrol fleet, but it is not a valid 5 point battle.

 

[Hindsight]

I understand now, thank you. Does your system reflect the current system, or the new system?

 

[Ministalker]

The current one