Re: FB small carrier construction
From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:37:21 -0400
Subject: Re: FB small carrier construction
Roger Books wrote:
> Let's see.
>
> We wanted to encourage smaller ships, otherwise each side would
> have a few big ships. We still wanted big ships possible though,
> so we set the biggest ship (the FSE supercarrier) to cost around
> 100 to maintain, 100 being our chosen output for an average world
> on a turn.
>
> One of my gaming group was big on the **1.6 (golden ratio I believe),
> and the 0.06 kind of fell out from there.
>
> If anyone is interested I could post our current campaign rules
> and people could pick them apart. We have added things like a
> flag bridge and admirals (an admiral may command a fleet with a
> certain mass, we do not use fleet morale UNLESS there is no admiral
> or the fleet is too big).
>
> I should point out something about our game, mostly we play at
> work over lunch, so things were written into our campaign system
> to attempt to limit the size of battles. You could easily tweak
> a few numbers and have much larger games.
>
> Roger Books
I am interested. (I am allways interested in campain rules...:-)
Donald Hosford