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Those of you familiar with the Fantasy Flight Games Star Wars tabletop RPGs: Edge of the Empire, Age of Rebellion and Force and Destinywill be exited to learn the new owner of these landmark RPGs will be republishing the books and reissuing new dice starting next month. These books routinely...

Very cool. I was playing with the cardboard cutouts of Mechs in the 90’s. Very low tech but still great fun. In the late 90’s, my twin actually bought me a copy of Mechwarrior Mercenaries: Ghostbear Clan? I think it was, and sent me my first joystick so I could play. I was instantly addicted and...

IIUC, the smallest Vanduul cap ship is the Void Bomber. It’s intended to compete with the Polaris and is really a corvette. It has 3 S10 guns and 7 S6 turrets. I don’t think a Perseus is going to fare well against them, especially since lore is they always appear in pairs, and each carry two...

I think you can use Furies to draw away Vanduul fighters. Even Void Bombers carry a pair of fighters so anytime you find a Vanduul cap ship, you should expect to find fighters. (I’m agreeing with you.) Perhaps more importantly though, Furies can fly in front of a Vanduul ship and successfully...

Cool we have some old Battletech gamers. You know the Shadowhawk from days yor had the same issue as the medium class ships in SC. Unless you build it fast enough to evade (like a fighter) it was doomed as soon as it met a heavy or assault mech. If you did build it light and fast, it really...

I’m partial to starting with the Lib when Vanduul caps ships open up as targets in the Sons of Orion storyline, and as the targets get harder, moving up to bigger and better ships. This way you’re building your group organically. Probably the first Cap class targets will be Void Bombers which...

What are the shapes at the bottom of the image and what are the dimensions here? This doesn’t appear to be 25 x 200. I think this is a much smaller area.

Hammerheads seem an obvious choice to me but that’s a decision for fleet level management. Certainly you’d want Star Gs too, and even a fleet of Reclaimers to pay the bills after a dust up. I’m asking though about what the Idris should carry because my guess is, the vast majority of conflicts...

So now that we have the tiny Fury, how does it affect the ideal combat complement of ships you’d want aboard an Idris for a generic strike force? By last count, the Idris can hold a crew from 28 to 81, so let’s say for the sake of discussion, max 53 players for carried ships. The flight deck is...

I recall when they first offered the Scorpios they gave us a graphic that clearly showed a military application. Same here. There are two Zeus flying together in formation, firing and taking fire. Why anyone would want to take a ship this size into battle is beyond me. It’s pretty rare for a...

I should likewise seek to support peace here. I put up with a lot of complaining about CIG, but most of it is not here. It’s in various other groups some of which pander to complaints near daily. It is not fair for me to respond out of patience where the players seldom complain so my apologies...

Ouch. That hurt.

So you agree these JPEG ships are worth whatever people are willing to pay for them, and agree people are paying for them, but think it’s somehow morally deficient—NOT “the right thing to do”, for CIG to sell them at their offered prices? If that’s what you think (please correct me if I’m...

So, I came across a graphic of the ST version I had not seen. At time index 7:32 here, you can see two graphics both of which show a dorsal turret like on the MR. Note the background is of a battle. CIG has sent us little love notes like this before. I think it’s safe to say the ST is a combat...

I’m curious how you decide what is “the right thing to do.” I have never seen any signs in your complaints of sage-like wisdom, and in an age of moral vacuum I’m curious what is your guide. In free market capitalism, prices are set by what the market will bear, meaning free people get for their...

You do understand, the two big ticket items holding back the game were SQ42 and Server Meshing. Reports on both these fronts are good. It’s okay to be grateful for that.

BTW, in technical startups, the business people all assume the technical people (both physicists and engineers) are a dime a dozen and easy to replace, and the technical people tell themselves the business people are just there for the money and are easy to replace. None of this leads to the...

Is anyone spotting signs of slavers? IIRC this was offered as characteristic of the region some years ago, and I recall making a mental note to prey upon Pyro for their sins. Seemed they deserve some grief. Any signs of slavery? Slavers, blechh! Kill ‘em all I say. Once beta hits this is...

That’s true, but we don’t want to see the Blue relegated to the pile of useless. Rather, the MR seems to be taking only the larger ships from the Blue’s list of targets. It may be a step up, but primarily in that it can carry more boarders , take more hits and take larger ships. CIG has always...

The A1 and C1 both have an SCM of 154 and a top speed of 1,120m/s. They pull 15.5 gees forward and 9.9 lateral, and are apparently significantly better in atmo. So generally a little more agile than a Black or even the Blue in atmo, but with significantly less top speed than the Blue (1210)...