This is currently untested, as I haven't had a chance to play Starfight yesterday or today, but I've been playing with this alternative, simultaneous play...
I've worked up a spreadsheet comparing damage v. range for 1, 2, and 3-dice lasers and disintegrators. the results are pretty stark, IMHO. I'd like to post it...
Howdy y'all! Randwulf and I have been doing a lot of rule tweeking and playtesting. Here is some of what we have come up with: Disruptors (disintegrators) use...
... Mmm, this is not true, since you must roll a die on the "O" range. from 2 to 6 with a T6 you penetrate a maximized shield. Furthermore, you can fire more...
... Good points both; I clearly misread those rules. I'll retract that paragraph but I believe my analysis of disintegrators still stands. -- Cerebus...
Bought basic set a couple days ago, played tonight... Some thoughts occurred to me. The most profound was that the die discarded should equal or exceed the...
... When your ship takes a hit, it loses ONE die, regardless of damage penetrating the shield. You can eliminate a die from the expended dice pool, if any. ......
This game certainly seems to attract a lot of SFB vetrans who are tired of waiting for ADB to finally publish the promised simplified game (Federation...
... I can count on one hand the number of times I've played SFB. The last time I played, the small fleet encounter we ran (three players, a dozen ships)...
I got majorly turned off of sfb mainly by the incremental turns... 10 seconds of combat takes an hour plus to play between two ships.... ugh... ... are ... ...
I do like the concept of keeping a die if you want to, but not be able to move it... how ever if you move or shoot you used that energy and must reroll...
The more I play Starfight, the more I want to build more interesting scenarios than the 'place maps, choose ship, kill' model. While simple & satisfying in...
... Well... since you asked it... ;) Next expansion will be another set of ships, this time featuring proton torpedoes and cloaking devices, it should be out...
... relative ... would also ... worth of ... well.... we add up all the die pips the ship can muster... if it has 4 max shield dice then 4x6 if it has 3 move...
Yep... it's true... he has a book full of them... you can hear the little voices calling out... " take us out... play with us"... and after a few hits of...
Hi Folks, The new ships are available now! Cloaking devices and proton torpedoes.... Good Gaming! ... Mario Barbati The BAPgamer http://www.bap-games.com ...
... Got mine. I must say I prefer the movement of proton torpedos over the torpedos in expansion 3. I'm not so sure about the damage distribution, but we'll...
it takes a few hours... they are in italy.... they not awake when we are... also check your junkmail folder... thats where mine showed up at... Randwulf ......
Algebraic... < less than ... <= less than or equal to ... so if the die slot says <=4 then you can put a die on it no greater than 4 or you get at most 4 if...
Hi, I purchased StarFight and Expansion Pack I from RPGNow. I was running through the rules to make sure I understood everything before getting my gaming...
we used range 0 for impact weapons... torpedos, missles, plasma... and for many of our "house rules" that we have come up with... go to the bap site and...
