DARKSTAR CAMPAIGN UPDATE: DUCHESS ANNABEL’S WAR IS OVER

Good morning, commanders.  😀

Just a quick announcement that v1.1 of the Darkstar rules are being hammered out as we speak.  I hope to roll them out later this week.

Very little is being tweaked in the actual rules. Really, just typos and some very minor clarifications where small, corner case rules were not CLEAR, nothing’s actually being changed.

In the ship designs, however, some of them will get updates.  This was always in the cards, with a few omissions like the ECM / Shielding ratings for the Scharnhorst class pocket battleship being addressed.  But after a few games this last weekend, I found a few additional updates that I wanted to make.  Then, looking more closely at the functionality of the spreadsheets that drive these designs, I found some more glaring issues that needed to be fixed.

Long story short, the warships designs are being tweaked, including not only the 30 classes included in the First Wave, but also the 78 other classes still waiting in the wings. This also includes updating the WRS for these classes, reformatting as .pdf, splicing the, into the book, and republishing.

So yeah, I have a busy couple of days ahead of me.

Even those ships that are being tweaked will have relatively small updates – light cruisers are the hardest hit, but even they’re losing only a couple mass driver defense points or excess torpedo tubes here and there.  Some point costs will also be updated.

But the rules are the same and the designs will be 99% the same.  This is just a clean up to make sure everyone has the best possible game available.