Flashpoint Cantina (OOC)

[gallpizi]

Okay. I’m going to go Imp. 

[SWSF Hale]

Nice. Yes... specs are done. Putting the finishing touches on the Combat Rules atm, and will be piecing together the Warbook as I go. I'm terrible with keeping deadlines on this forum but I don't see any hold-up for a launch by close of business Friday.

The Trade Federation in this game is non-canonical, but it basically represents a mishmash of common tech and smaller factions, so I will probably utilize them when we launch.

The game is OPEN to uneven teams, so if like 3 people want to be Imperial, and we have 1 NR and 1 TF, it's all good. The amount of resources don't increase with each player, so it's just a matter of administration. For anyone who just wants to fly a VSD (or whatever), then so be it. We can make it work.

Hoppus
Eidolon
Severus

IN OR OUT?

IT'S TIME!

[SWSF Hoppus]

I will definitely give it a go!

The ideas I have had are for Imperial persona. I will consider an NR slant though. THinking it through.

[SWSF Hoppus]

Stay tuned for Hop's game then, because he's all about the AE nostalgia fest. 

I am working on this but due to my work/life commitments its just going to be done in fits and starts. I am basically just looking to recreate GR, with no grid or a very very simple version they started with which was (confusingly) based on time out from the surface. No arcs or arcs but a limit to how many attacks a ship can make, and a simple economy system and PDF system. I'm just always suspicious if such a game can work with few players, though.

[SWSF Hale]

OKAY SO we have officially soft-launched. I will play both sides in the mock battle just to demonstrate the rules for everybody and how combat should look.

Just to give players an idea of scale, prior to any additional cash bonuses they will have 3600 GC to spend on units. Notice how for the mock, half of that was spent just to field 1 MC-80 and 1 RAF, and so once we factor in ground defenses... it's very likely that we'll be using only a handful of ships at any given point. Every penny counts!

[SWSF Hoppus]

Shield Banks...

So, each bank = shields value. If in a turn your shields drop below 0, you take armor/hull damage, next turn you would turn on the next bank you have available and have shields again?

Example.

Carrack Cruiser
  35 Shields
  02 Shield Banks

Turn 1, activates Shield Bank 01. Current shields: 35/35
-> Takes 50 damage.
Turn 2, shields 0/35, 15 damage to armor, Shield Bank 02 activated.
-> Takes 30 damage.
Turn 3, shields 05/30.

[SWSF Hale]

Yup.
Damage does not overflow into the next shield bank, rather the armor takes a hit and you have to raise the 2nd bank on your next post.
Ships are still very much in the fight even if their armor gets depleted (they can fire but not move), so you have to reduce the Hull to 0 to blow something up.

[SWSF Hoppus]

Great, I like it.

[SWSF Hoppus]

This looks like a pretty tidy and interesting game, Hale! Congratulations. I do wish we were in the "legacy" timeline, though, as Jakku is a bunch of piss in my book!

[SWSF Hale]

We get the Emperor and a fleet of Star Destroyers in Episode IX, so... it's all the same to me now, lol.

[gallpizi]

It really is all the same now haha. The Thrawn books were AMAZING. 

[SWSF Eidolon]

NR.

[SWSF Hale]

NR
Hoppus
Eidolon

IR
Gall
Severus

TF
Hale

[gallpizi]

Can you help me understand support units for planets? So is that just Ground/SF/AUX Defenses? 

[SWSF Hale]

Yup. Planets are basically warehouses for SF, AUX, INF, and GAV. You can mix it up however you want.