Re: [GZG] Battlefllet Gothic Conversion

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look/feel over trying to do the stats directly. Use the word
'abstract' to fold multiple weapons into fewer batteries when possible.
I
did this long ago with some of my Superior Wars ships (many of which are
literally *bristling* with weapons! so much that when I tried to do a
one-for-one, or even a two-for-one, cruisers were coming out larger than
FT
dreadnoughts).

Mk

On 5/8/07, Ryan Fisk <ryan.fisk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on a BFG Chaos conversion for FT and I had a question.
>
> Do you think it's better to make them as near to the BFG stats as
> possible or go with a "look and feel" that seems right?
>
> The ships in the background and the minis are HUGE.  A cruiser in
> Gothic is ~3km long in the background AFAICT.  I did a version them as
> "accurately" as possible according to the Gothic stats for this round.
> I may do a more "look and feel" version later.
>
> I used a modified version of Dean's spreadsheet (modified by me to add
> the publicly available playtest weapons, but only the LRPTs were used
> (for the 45-60cm lances, though a short range pulse torpedo would kind
> of make sense for the 30cm lances)) and the ships range from Mass 50
> Iconoclast Escorts (169 points each) to Mass 600 Despoiler Battleships
> (2102 points each).  It's not finely tuned, but I didn't "optimize"
> any of them, I just tried to make the ship have stats that would
> closely mirror the ship stats from the BFG rulebook.
>
> I do realize that these ships are MONSTROUSLY huge compared to Fleet
> book designs, but doing them mcuh smaller seemed to require more
> "judgement" on my side and I wanted to keep it as straightforward as
> possible.
>
>
>
http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/assets/lrb/5BFGshipsof
gothic.pdf
> at
> http://www.specialist-games.com/battlefleetgothic/rulebook.asp
> has the data on the ships in BFG terms.
>
>
> (And just want to add that Mike's game at Valhallas he mentioned here
> for April was a blast!)
> --
> Ryan Fisk
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