I'm a fan of the 'make a few rolls and tell us how the first four went' option, myself.  Even though I've finally figured out all the math involved with the Aureks (and I'm guessing, but feel fairly confident that the numbers for the sim Aurek should be the same as the actual Aurek, or really, really close), it's just plain easier to not have to roll through five whole rounds of combat.

That said, if Hex and Huu would rather roll to get the rolls themselves down, I'm fine with that too.  Color me easy to please.

Me, me, I choose few rolls and tell us how it goes. I prefer narrative combats when they aren't really important, no lives on the line, so that works for me. There will be enough 'real' combat for us to roll our dice and let the dice gods help us write up some awesome stuff.

Also....is Hex going to be able to use Force Pilot or is he going to be a load of crap in a simulator :D

Sounds like we have a majority then!

To answer your question, Hex, I can only really say 'sort of'.  There's no rules for it as far as I know, and based on how I understand the Force, I'd have to say it works... halfway.

Heh, well it doesn't particularly bother me one way or another. I'm more than happy to have Hex throw his helemt out of the simulator at the end because he's relying on muscle memory and training (his natural pilot roll) rather than the force, but he won't be pleased about it :P

Hahaha! Post 5000!

*cough*

*ahem*

That done, I would think that the Force Pilot would work in the sim.  It might not be as perfect, since it's against a program, but since the programs are crafted to be as realistic as possible... I dunno.  I would suspect Hex would be -better- in the real thing, but I don't imagine he'll -suck- in the sim, either.

Exactly that, Gates.

I'm workin' on a post for you guys, but I have been fairly busy these past few days - and may be later this week too, so hold out!

Gods, this is such a Gates-style song, I have to share.  Precisely the sort of thing she'd pipe into her cockpit in the sims...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsDOqeQEvH0

(NSFW by any stretch of the imagination)
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Alright, next update, which will bring you guys into the simulation and actual combat, will have to wait until friday at the earliest.  Gotta do a bit of preparation, and University work.

Just a quick question....can we target the missles? How long before they reach the ship?

Second, how are the bombers armed? Any actual guns? Or just their missiles?

And are we allowed, or is Gates at least, allowed to give orders to the cruisers?

Yes to the first, and 'not very long'.  I wouldn't count on getting a second pass.

As for the bombers... they do have laser cannons, as well as their payload (which is at least missiles).  No turret.

You can give orders to the cruiser.  Or Gates can, since you guys gave her flight lead (which is totally not going to go to her head).

Sorry for the long delay, festive season and now sick!

More questions, about to shoot at missles need to ask:

1) How do we calculate the to hit number for our ships? If it is the same as the original Aurek's apparently Kenna has the stats and formula in her scratchpad and can post it if need be.

2) What other armament does the Aurek have other than lasers, which I assumed? And is there anyway I can use Dual Weapon in the Aurek?

3) Last but not least, for future refrence, do any of our Force Powers (Other than Force Strike, Fold Space and Move Object) have a use in space combat?

Stat specific stuff will have to wait until I get home, but I remember the stats we were using for the Aurek before were just proxied from another starfighter in the book.  Gates should remember which one I mean - it was Starsaber or Starviper or something.  Either way, those aren't exact.  If you want to hold off then, I should be back home by the end of next week or so, if you don't mind waiting.

As for dual weapon, no.  Any turret or system that has multiple weapons functions as a single one.  It physically wouldn't be possible to, say, operate both turrets on the Falcon.

Force powers... Depends on the power really.  Most don't have a lot of range though.

Happy to wait :D

This time of the year is always slow.

Yeah, the stats were ported from the Starsaber, the fighter that the Aurek replaced in use, if I recall rightly.  The Aurek, especially the <whatever version past the Mark VIII> that Aquila is actually flying should be superior to that.  We do have torpedos and lasers, but we can't fire but one at a time.  No unloading your entire payload at once, unless you intend to kamikaze into something...

....which I definitely wouldn't suggest. ;)

That they are, so I have a bit of work to do on that when I get back.

In any case, the missiles were just launched, so you're not quite in range for a shot just yet...

How many shields does a Aurek have? Just one for front and rear? Or more?

If this is not relevant tell me so :D I'll happily just assume there are enough for both front and rear :D

Shields in Star Wars don't quite work like that - rather, you have one generator, and can allocate power to different sectors, evenly or uneven.  Fighters generally have front/rear distributions, while capitals can have any number of sectors.

Power management isn't covered in Saga except for a few feats, but in the TIE fighter games, you could push equal power, bolster front or rear (at the expense of the opposite; 60:40, 90:10, etc), and you could even balance power between engines and shields with the same balance.  You can do that here as well!

Cool, I only ask because I have in my cupboard somewhere that board game where you can fly ships and fight....forgotten it's name, but there it used to give you a number of shields you could distribute.

Percentage works fine for me.

Yeah, the miniatures, I have some of them too.  Got an X-wing Ace and a Rogue Squadron X-wing in the same booster pack, heh.

As decribed in the lore, fighters generally don't have port/starboard or dorsal/ventral - they're so small and agile that most attacks will come from the front or rear anyway.

Sorry, work is using me as a punching bag a bit and my imagination is almost flatlined...

Is there enough of a star/sun/nova whatever in the sky that we can try and use it like normal pilots use the sun, to hide their approach or does the electronics make up for that?

It can still be used in part, but its not as widely available.  Gotta be some very specific positioning due to the nature of space combat, and if you don't initiate combat from that vector, then it isn't feasible to try because you'd have to spend so much time to get on it.

In this case though, you're not close enough to a star to do so.

Just as an FYI I'm in the process of applying for a promotion, part of that process is putting together a presentation and a rather intensive interview process. With that in mind I'm going to be very, very slow the next couple of days preparing for that. It's likely to be over be the middle/end of next week but for the mean time I'll post when I can but it is going to be much slower than normal.

Hey, that's no problem dude!  The job comes first, after all.

To give you a bit of an idea, I'm in job search mode myself, so I know how you feel, heh.
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And I got it :D

So I'm hoping to get some posting done today or tomorrow, and this game is high on my list...but I've come to the conclusion I don't write enough space battles..so I need to think about how to write it :D