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Custom Built Imperial Ships

By Troy Arakaki, based on original by Dirk Vormann

Custom ship construction is as follows. Start with a basic ship type below, then add the armament and upgrades to the available ship's Hard Points (HP). Add up the totals for the final cost of your new custom built ship. Simple.

BASIC IMPERIAL SHIP TYPES

Note that Port/Starboard HP are identical on both sides of the ship.

IMPERIAL SHIP ARMAMENT

Choose from the following table. You only pay for the cost based on the total HP the weapon occupies. Escorts may only choose Armament from the shaded areas. Make sure that you are using the right point cost for the HP Firing Arc. Note that the Port/Starboard HP point costs covers both the Left & Right sides of the ship. Also remember to multiply the strength/firepower of weapons of the same type that occupy multiple Port/Starboard HP.

1. Example: A Dominator Class cruiser has a pair of WB/30/6 located in the Port/Starboard locations, occupying 2 HP. This costs 30 points and counts as a WB/30/12.

ADDITIONAL UPGRADES

• Choose from the following lists:

• Add one turret (+1 turret per ship): +10 points

• Remove one turret (no minimum): -10 points

• Reduce armor: -10 points per -1 reduction

• Increase ship speed: +5 points per +5cm increase

• Reduce ship speed: -5 points per -5 cm decrease

• Add Ship Damage Points: +10 points per Hit

• Reduce Ship Damage Points: -10 points per Hit

• Increase Shield strength: +10 points per +1 increase

• Reduce Shield strength: -10 points per -1 reduction

• Escorts Only: Long Range Detection Gear (+2 Leadership test bonus for enemy contacts), occupies 1 Hull HP: +5 points

• Light Cruisers Only: Improved Thrusters (+D6cm on All Ahead Full): +10 points

• Capital Ships Only: Sensor Probes (+1 Leadership), replaces 6+ Armored Prow: +0 points

• Battlecruisers only: Mars targeting matrix (Left column shift on gunnery table): +15 points

• Battleships only: If equipped with Launch Bays may include Assault Boats: +5 points

The above gives accurate points values for all existing Imperial Escorts, Light Cruisers, Cruisers, Battlecruisers and Battleships including all weapon upgrades.

EXAMPLES:

Firestorm Class Frigate:

Basic Escort 15 points

Hull Weapon Batteries: WB/30/2 10 points

Prow Weapon: L/30/1 15 points

Total 40 points

Dictator Class Cruiser:

Basic Cruiser 110 points

Port/Starboard Launch Bays: LB/2 X 1HP 50 points

Port/Starboard Weapon Batteries: WB/30/6 X 1HP 20 points

Prow Weapon: T/6 30 points

Additional Turret: 10 points

Total 220 points

Designer Notes: I took the basic idea that was started by Dirk Vormann and expanded it to include all Imperial Ship classes. The hardest part was trying to figure a progressive pattern of points vs. weapon strength/range that would cover all of the combinations found with the existing ships. I found that for the most part, a progressive pattern did exist (whether that was the designer's intention or not, I can only guess). However, some weapons had to have their points break the pattern just to get the ship totals to work out right. This system is probably not completely accurate to how existing ship's points were determined, but it does give a good starting point for any new Imperial Ship designs players might want to try out.

Oh, and to the Chaos players- Unfortunately this point system doesn't work with the Chaos ships. I am finding that their point cost when using this system are too high once all the details are totaled up. It looks like the Chaos ships are a bargain when compared to similarly equipped Imperial ships. I'll keep working on the problem and hopefully will solve it soon.

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Revised: April 22, 2000.