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Re: Exceptional Starship Crews I'll tack a trivia question to the lobachevsky post.... who was lobachevsky, and what song made him sorta famous

I pulled a Lobachevsky today... Star Fleet Battles and Babylon 5 this time for my latest warped idea 22 Legendary Command Crew: (Total: 39 Active Cost, 22 Real Cost) +3 with Combat Piloting (6 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 3) plus +2 with Cryptography (4 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 2) plus +3 with Tactics (6 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 3) plus +3 with Navigation (Air, Hyperspace, Space) (10 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 5) plus +2 with Systems Operation (Communications Systems, Air/Space Traffic Control Systems, Radar) (8 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 4) plus Luck 1d6 (Real Cost: 5) [Notes: one per ship] 19 Legendary Engineer: Aid 4d6, Usable By Other (+1/4), Delayed Return Rate (points return at the rate of 5 per 5 Minutes; +1/2) (70 Active Points); Requires A Skill Roll (Active Point penalty to Skill Roll is -1 per 5 Active Points -1), Custom Modifier (only to ships systems and equipment; -1), Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect only affects the recipient of the benefits of the Power; system works at half power for 1 hour per 5 pts increase; -1/2), Physical Manifestation (-1/4) [Notes: one per ship] 13 Legendary Fighter Squadron: (Total: 27 Active Cost, 13 Real Cost) +3 with Tactics (6 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1), Custom Modifier (Fighter/Small Craft Tactics only; -1/2) (Real Cost: 2) plus +3 with Combat Piloting (6 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1), Custom Modifier (Fighter/Small Craft only; -1/2) (Real Cost: 2) plus +2 with Ranged Combat (10 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1), Custom Modifier (Fighter/Small Craft only; -1/2) (Real Cost: 4) plus Luck 1d6 (Real Cost: 5) [Notes: Can be bought more than once Bonuses drop by 1 for every 4 units knocked out/destroyed] 11 Legendary Science Officer: (Total: 35 Active Cost, 11 Real Cost) Aid 2 1/2d6 (25 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Turn (Post-Segment 12), Character May Take No Other Actions, -1 1/2), Custom Modifier (only to enhance sensors and communications, only to improve perception rolls and range; -1), Requires A Skill Roll (-1/2) (Real Cost: 6) plus +3 with Systems Operation (Communications Systems, Metal Detectors, Radar) (10 Active Points); Extra Time (Extra Phase, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1) (Real Cost: 5) 8 Legendary Ships Doctor/Surgeon: Healing BODY 3d6, Can Heal Limbs (35 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Minute, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1 3/4), Others Only (-1/2), Requires A Skill Roll And A Skill Roll (Variable RSR -1/2), Custom Modifier (must have equipment on hand; -1/2) [Notes: One per ship ]Diagnosis roll and a surgery roll]] 10 Veteran Astrogation/Tracking Party: (Total: 20 Active Cost, 10 Real Cost) +2 with Systems Operation (Communications Systems, Air/Space Traffic Control Systems, Radar) (8 Active Points); Crew-Served ([5-8] people; -3/4) (Real Cost: 4) plus +2 with Navigation (Air, Hyperspace, Space) (8 Active Points); Crew-Served ([5-8] people; -3/4) (Real Cost: 4) plus +2 with Tracking (4 Active Points); Crew-Served ([5-8] people; -3/4) (Real Cost: 2) 6 Veteran Damage Control Team: (Total: 35 Active Cost, 6 Real Cost) Healing BODY 3d6, Can Heal Limbs (35 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), Custom Modifier (only works on ship and ships equipment; -1), Crew-Served ([5-8] people; -3/4), Requires A Skill Roll And A Skill Roll (Variable RSR -1/2) (Real Cost: 6) [Notes: can be bought more than once] 10 Veteran Gun Crew: (Total: 15 Active Cost, 10 Real Cost) +2 with Systems Operation (ships weapon director) (5 Active Points); Crew-Served ([3-4] people; -1/2) (Real Cost: 3) plus +2 with Ranged Combat (10 Active Points); Crew-Served ([3-4] people; -1/2) (Real Cost: 7) [Notes: can buy more than one per ship] 14 Veteran Security Team: (Total: 28 Active Cost, 14 Real Cost) +2 with Tactics (4 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 2) plus +2 with Security Systems (4 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 2) plus +2 with Demolitions (4 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 2) plus +2 with All Combat (16 Active Points); Crew-Served ([9-16] people; -1) (Real Cost: 8) [Notes: Bonuses drop one for each 5 ko/dead] Powers Cost: 113

Re: BattleTech Heat Sinks for the initial workups I've done on a couple of mechs, I've used the engine rating as the pts in the END battery, and then the heat sink # for the recovery I am very interested in other ideas

Re: Warhammer Battlemech ok, I posted the gear files in text format over in the gadgets and gear section of the Star Hero Fandom Forum http://www.starherofandom.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=06ed04e4b1113c73ccb179696c8f7964

Re: Warhammer Battlemech I was thinking it had 22 HS, and 12 tons of armor, my bad havent even tried to figure out a workaround for heatsinks so to start with, I went with END equalling the PP rating, and REC equal to the # of Heat sinks

Re: Warhammer Battlemech doh

rough idea for a 3025 standard Warhammer I gave the PP END equal to the engine rating and a REC equal to the heat sink rating DEF is 2 pts per ton of armor

Re: More Battletech Gadgets and guns here ya go, which files cant you dowload?

Re: More Battletech Gadgets and guns ok, something didnt work

sorry it took so long to post part two spent most of the week dealing with an emergency

Re: Power Armor the Armored Brain concept works especially well for 40K Dreadnoughts and the Eldar ghost warriors.

all the nonweapons stuff

Re: Battlemech Weapons to Hero I tried a revised version of the weapons using standard damage to try and come close to BT heres what I came up with

Re: Battlemech Weapons to Hero ok, heres another idea, what about revising the weapon stats to match something resembling BT by using standard effect? that would just leave figuring out how to buy armor we could go 3 pts of def per ton of armor? or is that too much?

yep... now for my favorite 3025 Assault Mech

Re: Locust Battlemech- another rough idea Archer has some very good points... how far do we want/need to take this? conversions will throw things out of whack in a hurry, if you just want to go with the feel, then go with it.. if we can come up with an agreeable set of conversion statistics etc... I will probably eventually crank out a few dozen mechs.. otherwise this can just die quietly... I do have a tendency to overdo things what do people want to see done with this idea? I honestly dont play BT enough or even Hero enough to put it to much use myself... but if folks want to see more stuff...

Re: Locust Battlemech- another rough idea that works for me, and if you want to differentiate further, you could vary body and def to simulate different weights

Re: Locust Battlemech- another rough idea I was juggling size and strength to come as close to 20 tons mass as possible and this way came up with 25.6

Re: Locust Battlemech- another rough idea it works for me, I do realize I need to revise the ejection seat, I didnt really do it properly. that and the armor is pretty light even for a Locust, if we go with the weapons damage I have listed.

Re: Battlemech Weapons to Hero I did a straight conversion by weight, not by Battletech damage although the SRM is going to do more damage with a direct hit than the frag damage from the HE warheads on the LRMs along with the fact the SRM is an AP warhead but again, thats why I posted this stuff... to get ideas

Ok, I went and did a very rough draft for a Locust battlemech I havent done anything with heat sinks on it yet, otherwise I think shes about done. I tinkered with the size and strength to come up with a mass of around 20 tons, this ones 25 tons, but again its an idea. Defensewise, I went with with 4 pts of DEF per ton of armor carried she mounts a medium laser and 2 machine guns, and is 3025 tech eventually if we can agree on a mech design system, I will get around to cranking out a lot of mech designs I will post a text version to the gadgets version of Star Hero Fandom shortly

Re: Battlemech Weapons to Hero as far as the warhead damage, I got the weight figures from my copy of Striker.. the old traveller minatures rules set, then used the chart from the starhero playtest to figure damage, Striker gives a 6kg weight for the 6cm warhead, and 120kg for the 200mm warhead. thats assuming standard warheads and no guidance for Streak Warheads, I would call them a homing warhead and add 1kg to the weight, but not for damage now for NARC pods, that would be a bit different its not even remotely perfect, but it does give a sense of scale, and I can point folks to where I am getting the data from I would just pull it out of a hat like a rabbit, but the cat keeps chasing the rabbit back in

Re: Battlemech Sensor Arrays again, I'm just going from what I've found in the various books and novels and taking a wild ass guess on the maximum range stuff. since there not really covered. I figure the AA mechs like the Riflleman and Galahad are going to have better/longer ranged radar though one of the novels talks about a couple of remote sensors which were pretty much a cam of sorts attached to a wall by a fiberoptic cable attached to the mech. but it only shows up that once in all the books etc. so I didnt bother with it. I'm really no expert on this, just a really odd memory for trivia and such and a pretty fair reference library I was also one of the playtesters on Mechwarrior 2nd edition, but after the way it turned out... I'm almost glad I am listed in special thanks instead course I feel the same way about the work we did for Imperium Games on Pocket Empires and Imperial Squadrons..

another rough starting point references borrowed from various rules versions and the novels as a general rule standard battlemech sensors are pretty mediocre rangewise it seems like

Re: Battlemech Weapons to Hero the LRM racks can be fired indirectly if you have a spotter thats covered in several versions of the rules the SRM warhead is a 6kg AP warhead the LRM warhead is a 120kg HE warhead these both assume standard SRM and LRM launchers