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You can have crew stay in their ships long term only if it includes a bed, head and galley, and really for immersion and play experience, you want your crew to be able to gather together. IMHO, one of the reasons flying a Polaris is a significant step up from a Lib is the pool table. I don’t...

That’s certainly a far cry from what it was. They must have changed it when they did the last rework and pulled the holodisplay from the bridge. (Still pisses me off.) So what used to be the required crew was 5 bridge officers, 6 turret gunners, 1 torpedo officer, 1 engineer, 1 hanger operator...

Well, CIG has been clear the crew compliment for the Polaris is 11-27, and for the Idris is 28-81. The Polaris does include 12 bunks for marines which could be assigned instead to spotter pilots. These numbers aren’t new. And yes I totally agree, I’m sure we’re going to find that the first...

Ha! Sorry, but so far as I’m aware, it’s just the ffg TTRPG books and dice that suffer rarity. I think there’s something on the order of 20 of them and especially the three sourcebooks even used are over $100@. New, sourcebooks are often over $200@. That’s what’s about to change. The...

I’m doing my part. https://youtube.com/shorts/MVDS5nN2u78?si=9H7t8O8BT8CzYlhi

I did the math in the first post above. The Idris min crew is 28, and max crew is 81. Given that, my guess is crew for carried ships has to max at 53. I recommended 38. That’s all pretty fast and loose but reasonable, I think. Yes, absolutely everyone needs a bed. Odds are decent though, at...

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...