Dramatic SFB: War of Attrition

[Matthew]

Alright. So I've been hearing some pretty overwhelming hurrahs for 
claiming a winner of the War of Attrition, and then starting a new game. 
I want to give it the weekend to hear from people spend their life at 
work say that they don't want the WoA to go away. However, it's looking 
like I'll be closing the game Real Soon Now (tm).


So here's what I'd like to do for the next game (stop me if you hate the 
idea):


Last turn of Y179 as the start year.

3 turns per year.

Everyone has monies to buy their fleet. No starting ships.

Fed & Empire Borders: you start next to the guys that F&E puts you next 
to. The border counts are roughly the same ratio as F&E (but, obviously, 
not the same amounts.)

The game ends after Y185.

X ships are not allowed (because the basic X modules just aren't in the 
database.) There will be the opportunity to build some X-Ships. Please 
don't take those opportunities - I can kill ships from the admin interface.

I can allow or not allow conjectueral ships as you guys care. This 
mostly affects battleships, but some empires might see some of their 
one-off ships being allowed (Hydran and Romulan come to mind.)


Scenarios will be getting another tweaking: Some of the EP penalties 
will be replaced with NoBorder rewards.

The software doesn't support other forms of bookkeeping at the moment 
(such as tracking how many ships were destroyed over the life of the 
game, or whatever.) If you folks want to have public records of what 
ships did what, I don't mind allowing legendary officers. If you want 
them, I'll add them to the campaign rules as an optional rule.


If using Legendary Officers:

Use (U7.95) to calculate XPs.

At 1,000 XPs, roll on (G22.111) for that ship. Note that there is half a 
chance that there will not be a legendary officer. The only roll for a 
legendary officer is at 1,000 XP (more XP won't allow another roll for 
that ship, but they will suck up their share of (U7.9513). Legendary 
officers are *rare*.)

Legendary officers don't add BPV to a ship for any purpose.

Legendary officers cannot be transferred or promoted. If the ship 
containing such an officer is destroyed or captured, then the officer(s) 
and the XPs on that ship are lost.

PFs and Fighters won't have legendary pilots/crews. Nor will there be 
any outstanding crews.


--Matt