Dramatic SFB: New "Main" Campaign

Sun Jan 24 18:04:07 PST 2021

I'm not 100% in agreement on the need for new rules to push everyone
towards a specific style of 'strategic level' play. I understand we need
some rules to make sure everyone has as much fun as possible, but not so
many that it begins to stifle the fun - and to make things more complicated
for the GM, that threshold is different for everyone.

Let's take the ship assignments as an example. If I decide sector # is the
most valuable thing on my border and assign the biggest fleet I can command
to it, that's its own handicap everywhere else along my border without even
needing extra rules.

Similarly if I notice my neighbor always assigns big fleets to sectors with
+10 income, I can choose to bid a big fleet against them in that sector and
play the battle or to take advantage of their weakness every where else.

Respectfully,
Brent

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 15:11 <sfbdrama-request at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:

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> From: Wayne Power <wdpower at yahoo.com.au>
> To: Peter DiMitri <pdimitri67 at outlook.com>, Majead Farsi <
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> Stanton <brentzkrieg39 at gmail.com>
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> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:59:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: Dramatic SFB: New "Main" Campaign
> Matt did say campaign set between Y166 and Y180.
>
> "So it's time to start up a new "Main" campaign:
>
> - This is open to anyone and everyone, with no limit on the number of
> players
>
> - It will be set sometime between Y166 and Y180. Three turns to a year.
>
> - No conjectural ships (unbuilt variants, impossible builds, or other
> non-historical designs.)
>
> - The game will go for 24 turns (8 game years). The winner will be the
> player with the largest fleet BPV at the start of the 25th turn".
>
>
>
> On Monday, 25 January 2021, 03:24:19 am AEST, Majead Farsi via SFBdrama <
> sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org> wrote:
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>
> 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
> *To:* sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org <sfbdrama at lists.mattnet.org>
> *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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