Dramatic SFB: SFBdrama Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

Gregory Flusche shagrat1960 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 22 06:14:52 PDT 2017 

Ugly Dirty Birds are ready to advance.

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>    1. Bunch of questions (Daniel Crispin)
>    2. Player list (Daniel Crispin)
>    3. Re: Ship selection (Roch Chartrand)
>    4. Re: Bunch of questions (Matthew)
>    5. Re: Ship selection (Matthew)
>    6. The Great Gorn Confederation Ready to Advance. (Roch Chartrand)
>    7. Player Positions (Matthew)
>    8. Re: The Great Gorn Confederation Ready to Advance. (ken)
>    9. turn 0 (Glenn Somerfield)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 02:21:24 +0000
> From: Daniel Crispin <calendyr at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Dramatic SFB: Bunch of questions
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> Ok, so before I build my fleet, can the rules be clarified on all that was
> discussed?
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>
> For instance:
>
>
>   1.  How will weapon status be determined?  Are we going with a roll as
> last campaign with a bonus for scouts and attacking?  Or are there new
> rules?
>   2.  I see Frax were allowed again in the campaign, can we build
> conjectural units then?
>   3.  I want to build a Monitor, I cannot find it in the build ship list.
> Bug?
>   4.  How do I buy the fighters for my ships that carry them?
>   5.  How are borders working?  Same as last campaign or is there a new
> system in place to open and close them?
>   6.  What year are we starting at?  174 as we talked about?
>   7.  How is the command rating gonna work this time around?  Do we have a
> limit on what we can send based on scenario?
>   8.  Are we still using hidden T-Bomb deployment from shuttle hatch?
>
> That's all I can think of right now.
>
> Daniel
> Yet to be named ISC empire
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> From: Daniel Crispin <calendyr at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Dramatic SFB: Player list
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> I am re-building my player list.
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> Can you post who plays what and their email?
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> I think there are a few new players as well, so I might be missing some
> emails since they no longer show when someone posts to the mailing list.
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> Daniel
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> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:08:21 -0400
> From: "Roch Chartrand" <R.Chartrand at Videotron.qc.ca>
> To: "'Matthew'" <matt at mattnet.org>
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> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Ship selection
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> Matt,
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> I don't mind the WS Roll with the +shift like last time and I'm also good
> with fix WS.
>
> Roch C.
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> To: ken; sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org
> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Ship selection
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> > Oh, also, are we keeping the weapon status roll chart thinger  ?
>
> I forgot to change the scenarios over to the fixed weapon-status. If there
> is a majority, I will do so. (Doing that sort of thing this turn doesn't
> affect anything at all, since there will be no battles.)
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> Any in favor of going from random WS to fixed WS?
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> --Matt
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> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:14:59 -0400
> From: Matthew <matt at mattnet.org>
> To: sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org
> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Bunch of questions
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> > We just build ships this turn then start fighting in the next?
> >
>
> Yes. We've discussed this before the campaign start, and the consensus
> was to build your own fleets.
>
> >  1. How will weapon status be determined?  Are we going with a roll as
> >     last campaign with a bonus for scouts and attacking?  Or are there
> >     new rules?
> >
>
> I know there was some discussion towards going back to the fixed Weapon
> Status. As I understand it, there was no consensus to change things. If
> you guys would like to go back to a system where the Weapon Status was
> fixed on a scenario-basis (typically used to balance the starting
> conditions a bit), then I can set that up.
>
> Currently, we are still using the random WS chart.
>
> >  1. I see Frax were allowed again in the campaign, can we build
> >     conjectural units then?
> >
>
> No. Conjectural units are not allowed in this campaign. For purposes of
> allowing empires to play, the Peladine and Frax units, and the module C6
> ships (Carnivon and Paravian) are allowed to be played.
>
> Allowing conjectural units would allow conjectural Battleships (which
> the Klingon B10 and Seltorian Hive Ship are notable exceptions), the
> "Unbuilt Variants" found in the Romulan Heavy Hawk series and other
> places, and certain other ships.
>
> >  1. I want to build a Monitor, I cannot find it in the build ship
> >     list.  Bug?
> >
>
> Intentional. There are no monitors and auxiliaries (with notable
> exceptions among most of the WYN ships and the occasional specialty
> ship) in the database. The mobility issues that Monitors and auxiliaries
> have cannot be modeled in the campaign. The rebate monitors receive will
> probably unbalance scenarios in their favor.
>
> >  1. How do I buy the fighters for my ships that carry them?
> >
>
> The ships that carry fighters have the fighter cost rolled into the cost
> of the ship and there is a notation in the ship name as to what fighters
> they carry. It is assumed that a casual inspection of the SSD or (in
> most cases) noting the description for the unit in the appropriate
> section-R rule, would be sufficient to tell how many of a given type of
> fighter a ship will carry.
>
> >  1. How are borders working?  Same as last campaign or is there a new
> >     system in place to open and close them?
> >
>
> Same rules are in place there. The only that has changed in the rewards
> and penalties of scenarios is that INCOME has changed to EP.
>
> >  1. What year are we starting at?  174 as we talked about?
> >
>
> Yes. Logging into the game, and examining the left-hand sidebar will
> tell you the current year of the campaign, the email of the moderator,
> whether conjectural units are allowed, and other datum about the game.
>
> >  1. How is the command rating gonna work this time around?  Do we have
> >     a limit on what we can send based on scenario?
> >
>
> Some scenarios have limits of how many or what type of ships may be
> assigned to them. The only blanket campaign-wide statements that can be
> made about command structures is in the campaign rules document. In
> summary we are using the rules of (S8.0), except where noted in the
> campaign rules or in the scenario. (The scenario text overrides the
> campaign rules, as they apply only to that situation.)
>
> >  1. Are we still using hidden T-Bomb deployment from shuttle hatch?
> >
>
> Yes. It seemed the consensus was to keep the hidden-mine rule as
> presented in the campaign rules.
>
> --Matt
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:16:02 -0400
> From: Matthew <matt at mattnet.org>
> To: Roch Chartrand <R.Chartrand at Videotron.qc.ca>
> Cc: SFBdrama at lists.mattnet.org
> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Ship selection
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> > I don't mind the WS Roll with the +shift like last time and I'm also good
> > with fix WS.
>
> It seems that most of the players prefer the random Weapon Status, as we
> used in the last half of the last iteration.
>
> --Matt
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 23:44:13 -0400
> From: "Roch Chartrand" <R.Chartrand at Videotron.qc.ca>
> To: "'Matthew'" <matt at mattnet.org>
> Cc: <SFBdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
> Subject: Dramatic SFB: The Great Gorn Confederation Ready to Advance.
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> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:02:13 -0400
> From: Matthew <matt at mattnet.org>
> To: Matthew via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
> Subject: Dramatic SFB: Player Positions
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> Some of you have been asking for a player list for the game. Here's a
> list of player by empire pick:
>
> Gorn (falrun04)
> Hydran (sumo)
> Paravian (Vandar)
> Andromedan (blackwind2)
> Gorn (Charlie)
> Klingon (BigSlowTarget)
> Carnivon (Admgrraven)
> Jindarian (Kengulnar)
> Tholian (Matt)
> Federation (Hazelnut1968)
> ISC (Calendyr)
> Vudar (Asmoridin)
> Frax (jarod.ikeda at gmail.com)
> Kzinti (BigJim)
> Klingon (Nicholander_1765)
>
>
> --Matt
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:10:39 -0400
> From: ken <kengulnar73 at yahoo.com>
> To: Roch Chartrand <R.Chartrand at Videotron.qc.ca>, 'Matthew'
>         <matt at mattnet.org>
> Cc: SFBdrama at lists.mattnet.org
> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: The Great Gorn Confederation Ready to
>         Advance.
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> Builds in.? I thought 900 points to start was high, but with 7 borders, it
> went fast!?
> Admiral Ken
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> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 04:58:31 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Glenn Somerfield <glenns134 at yahoo.com>
> To: Matthew via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
> Subject: Dramatic SFB: turn 0
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> Im in ready to advance
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