Mod Explanation:
OOB:All Specialty ships are controlled via OOB. Kroma came up with the idea of 2 types of points for controlling the OOB. BPs, Build Points, are used for the purchasing of DN and BCH hulls. CP, Conversion Points, are used for converting ships into specialty ships. This is sort of to emulate how in SFB ans F&E, Shipyards were used to construct ships but Start bases had the ability to convert and refit ships.
CPs are also used to upgrade DN and BCH ships.
Now you may ask, what is a specialty ship? Carriers, Tenders, Droners, Escorts, Scouts, Maulers, Fast Cruisers, etc are specialty ships. Each specialty ship costs one CP to convert.
Command cruisers and Line Cruisers as generally available for all to fly.
Flags:To avoid confusion, all capital and specialty ships have been ?flagged? in the ships list. Capital ships have a ?c? in the beginning of the name (EXAMPLE: F-cDNH, K-cC7) and specialty ships are flagged with an ?s? (EXAMPLE: F-sCVD, K-sFDW). Ships that are generally available (K-D7W, R-NHK, F-CLC) have no flags so feel free to buy as many as you like.
Klink Tweaks:- 2 B-Racks added to Klingon Strike Carriers
- 4 B-Racks added to K-C8V/C8VK. 2 Disrupters removed
- K-C10K: +1 AMD12
- K-D7L: FYA moved to 2273 based on SFB precedent
- K-C5K: FYA moved to 2273 based on SFB precedent
Tholians:Tholians are converted by Brezgone. I cut an pasted. Maybe we can nag him to give a write up because I honestly don?t know too much about them.
Fighters and PFs: All races have fighters and PFs. The new PFs for the Federation and Klingons are based on SFB material. Yes the Federation PFs are conjectural, but they are still legal.
For developing fighters for the Romulans and Tholians, we used the stats from SFB 100%. The Speeds were doubled and internals left as is to represent WBPs (Warp Booster Packs) and double-internals. The GW dev team was now faced with an option, do we use SFB fighters for the Romulans/Tholians and use the Taldren fighters for the Klingon/Federation or do we use SFB fighters for all?
We chose to use SFB fighters for all.
The fighters are as close to SFB stats as the game engine allows. When ?creative license? was needed, we went for the ?spirit? of SFB. In SFB, fighters were deadly as hell up-close, fast, and could not take as much damage as most of the Taldren fighters. I think the translations worked out well and I don?t believe anything is OTT with the CnC we?ve set up.
The Romulan Carriers are straight out of SFB converted to the 2/3 fighter rule.
The Klingon PF tenders are straight conversions from SFB. The Federation PF tenders are SFB legal conversions of the F111 carriers from the Federation 3rd way. By ?SFB legal? we used the conversion of the BCS and SCS for conjectural PFs. Cargo is converted to repair, F111s swapped for PFs.
Casual PF Tenders. In SFB, ANY ship could be refitted to carry 2 PFs into battle. These PFs were literally strapped-on hitching a ride into battle. The casual PF Tenders could NOT repair the PFs as they had no real hanger/repair facilities. This is represented by the rule that ships with 2 PFs cannot recall them after they have been launched in battle (Thanks Scipio for the inspiration ).
Any ship could have 2 PFs in SFB, but we had no intention on including casual tender variant of every single ship. That?s simply nuts and too much work. Instead we made variants of the following ships:
- BCH
- CCH
- NCC
- CF
- NCF
- CWL
The Casual PF tenders are considered specialty ships and cost 1 CP to convert.
Fighter/ PF CnCStraight SFB. See the website for details
http://mkroll.asta.chicago.il.us/I?ll post more later, going to get the test server running now . . .