Dramatic SFB: Rules and purchases

[ken]

I bought C5, the Magellanic cloud, for an earlier campaign, I like some of the races in there a lot, it was written by Ken Burnside, who swears up and down that it is ballanced vs the Alpha races. At the very least it is closer than C4 and some of the other modules that we are using.
Admiral Ken 


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From: Matthew via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> 
Date: 12/11/2017  7:48 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org 
Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: Rules and purchases 


    
    
      Regarding the ISC specific rules I
          had read them when I saw that the prices in the database were
          not the same as on the SSDs and Master Ship Chart.
      
    
    

    You are probably running into the cost for those refits I mentioned.
    For example, the most modern ISC CL at this year is the "CL-r", at
    137 BPV. It is noted in the ISC section of the "Available Empires"
    section of the campaign rules, "Refits: The ISC "r" refit
    shows a ship that is missing the rear-firing plasma (R13.R2)."
    (R13.R2) points out that the rear-firing Plasma are worth 2 BPV
    each. The CL has four of these (2 per side). The CL is listed as145
    BPV in my Master Ship Chart. So, 145 less 8 is 137. You'll find that
    a "CL-r" is 137 BPV in the campaign software.

    

    In Y179, when those plasma are installed, a bog-standard CL can be
    purchased for 145 BPV.

    

    
      
         As for PPDs, I have not
            seen anything regarding them not being available depending
            on date.
      
    
    

    Over the years, I have not found a satisfactory answer to the PPD
    introduction or it's cost *in the ISC section of rules*. I have,
    however, found a listing in (R1.R2), where it lays out the changes
    to ISC bases for earlier years (middle years and forward.) I
    included that section in the cut&paste of the ISC refits,
    specifically for that reason.

     

    
    
      
        I do have a question
            regarding carrier uses and their escorts.  

          
      
    
    

    I don't have Module G3A, so I can't vouch for the quality of the
    carrier tables found there. I used the escort tables found in
    section R. But our case is simpler than that: we are using the
    "Flexible Carrier Escorts" of (S8.315).

    

    The only concern I can see people going to, is that the software
    notes carriers as carrying certain fighters but for space reasons
    does not list amount of fighters. Here, I calculated the costs based
    on the amount of fighters listed in the same escort tables
    previously mentioned. If in doubt, check your SSD, as the
    proportions are generally the same (assault and superiority) from
    earlier fighters up to the ones presented on the SSD.

    

    
      
        So as for needed
            modules, I went through the list on one of the websites and
            think these are the ones I should get:
      
    
    

    Module M is a good buy. I'm very happy having gotten it. (And
    passage combat makes for an interesting side-game.)

    

    I have not picked up Module P6. There is some value in there, as it
    introduces some wacky rules, but my gaming group is more interested
    in the straight-forward stuff.

    

    Module C6 was also a good buy. However, it only has those two
    empires and presents them in a "What If" situation of "had they
    survived their extinctions...." If you want just the real empires,
    then this is not for you.

    

    
      
        
         
        I did not see module C4 or C5 in the list, so
          if they exist I might want to grab them too.
    
    

    C5 is the magellenics, if I recall correctly. We won't use them in
    this campaign (but I might pick them up in order to play a
    magellenics version of this campaign format.) Not much need to get
    that right now.

    

    C4 is an alright buy. It adds a bunch of empires and a slew of wacky
    rules. The most popular of the empires in there are the Frax (which
    occasionally surface in this campaign. Pun intended.) Fortunately,
    the Frax don't have much for wacky add-on rules until you get into
    their submarines.

    

    --Matt

  
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