Dramatic SFB: New "Main" Campaign

[Majead Farsi]

I'm easy with the year! But think we should go with the following choices
Y170, Y175 or Y180! From what I have read so far I would think Y175 to be a
good choice, but 178 is OK too !

Majead

On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 16:19, Peter DiMitri via SFBdrama <
sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

> I like 178 too.  In those 8 years you get the PF deployment and the last
> "refits" and some x-tech.  It's a good transitional period.
>
> My only issue with starting 171 in and 8 year campaign is that it ends in
> 179, where some races will have PFs and some races won't.  I'd rather a
> timeline that allows the new technologies to be fully deployed across the
> empires.  That could be solved by making it longer than 8 years, but I
> guess 8 years and 24 turns is a long campaign!
>
> Peace,
>
> Peter S. DiMitri
>
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> *From:* SFBdrama <sfbdrama-bounces at lists.mattnet.org> on behalf of Brent
> Stanton via SFBdrama <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 24, 2021 9:07 AM
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> *Subject:* Dramatic SFB: New "Main" Campaign
>
> Great news Matt! Thank you for the work that you do for us.
>
> Concerning the starting year, I'm easy. Perhaps Y178? That would give
> everybody interceptors and a short lead up to full PFs and X-tech, and then
> several turns to play with all the advanced designs as they become
> available.
>
> No preference on Omega stuff, just about everything is new to me anyway
> lol.
>
> Don, on getting into more battles: Last campaign Wayne had a neat idea. He
> would send me the approximate strength of some of his fleets when he was
> spoiling for a scrap, something like "You detect multiple vessels with a
> warp signature of 1.5 in Sector ###". With that I was able to assign a
> force of approximately the same strength and we could do some shooting. If
> you've got a gentlemanly neighbor who won't take advantage of that
> information to steamroll you, that could be a potential solution without
> needed hard changes to the rules.
>
>
> Brent
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