RE: 1st CanAm

How about each Ship roll an initiative die (d6/2 round up).
The inititive indicates what phase the ship will fire in (1-3).
If you wish, you could weight this 1d6 all 6's fire in the 
1st phase; all 1's fire in the 3rd phase; all other fire in
the 2nd phase.
All damage within a phase is simultaneous. 
This prevents a player from making his largest ship the 
one that always gets initiative

You could augment this by giving each player a number
of initiative counters. Each player could turn in an inititive
counter to allow a ship to fire 1 phase earlier (phase 1 ships
cannot be shifted). You could also give the Admiral of 
each side an extra number of initiative counters to pass
down to his captains. I would suggest providing no more
than 3 initiative counters to each player and 1 per player
extra to the admiral.

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Brian Bell
bkb@beol.net
http://www.ftsr.org	 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laserlight [SMTP:laserlight@quixnet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:10 AM
> To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> Subject:	1st CanAm
> 
> As GZGECC registration rolls around, our thoughts turn to the Prestige
> and Glory that Four Victors will win.  One of the ideas for speeding
> play, you will recall, was to designate 1st round, 2nd round, 3rd
> round targets and have all damage from each round be simultaneous.
> However, no one has sent me playtest reports on how well the idea
> worked.  I'm waiting....
> 
> 
> Alternate idea: designate 20% of your NPV (ie 300pts/player) as
> "superior" ships, which fire in 1st round; 50% would be normal ships
> and fire in second round; 30% would fire in third round.  These
> ratings would be permanent, ie you wouldn't get another "superior"
> just because you lost one.  This would avoid the time and mental
> anguish needed to place fire control markers.  First tier ships should
> also get a couple extra DCP, while third tier should lose a couple.
> 
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