What can we learn from Battlestar Galactica?

[Kemper Boyd]

I've been rewatching the new Battlestar Galactica series and decided to use some ideas from it in future campaigns.

First of all: general-purpose military craft don't appear much in Star Wars. Something like one of the Colonial Raptors would be a fun thing to have in a campaign. Decent range, able to do fire support, recon and land ground troops and even help board ships.

Second: the way the Battlestars in the series use their weapons against other ships seems like it could easily be adapted into the game. Instead of having Star Destroyers aim at enemy fighters, it would make more sense if they would use the kind of flak barrage as seen in the series, that is to say that their guns are used for area denial. The main batteries of the ships remain silent against fighters but are used for attacking other capital ships.

Gunfire would be sort of a navigational hazard instead of actively targeting single ships.

[Kemper Boyd]

I also very much liked how nuclear weapons were used in Galactica as ship-to-ship weapons. The fact that they don't appear in Star Wars much I've chalked to the fact that nuclear weapons are kind of messy for both parties in the engagement. Detonations mess with communications and starfighter activity, which might make them less attractive as an option. However, lower tech groups like some you could find in the Unknown Regions still might actually use them which might at times be a nasty surprise for Rebels or Imperials operating in the area.

[atgxtg]

[ZzaphodD]

[Kemper Boyd]

[atgxtg]

In case it helps D6 Ships has nukes do full damage to all targets within 2 space units, half damage to targets more than 2 but less than 3 space units way, and quarter damage to target 3-4 units away.

I'd probably go with:
Same Space : Full Damage
1-2: Half Damage
3-4: Quarter Damage

[ZzaphodD]

What exactly makes nuke cover such large areas in space?

[atgxtg]

[ZzaphodD]

[atgxtg]

[hisham]

Don't nukes cause considerably less damage in space because lack of atmosphere makes for really terrible shockwave damage? I think the BSG effects are good because nukes in space are just fireball pops. However, nukes detonated inside ships...

Also, I've house ruled starfighters flying through flak, but I think the house rule warrants an upgrade because I did it with first edition rules.
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[Hellcat]

[atgxtg]

I think the point defense guns are simply because the Clone War ships got statted out for D20. In D20 the ISD's have Point defense guns, too. Those turbolaser batteries (even the quad lasers on the Falcon) are very similar in appearance to 20-40mm ainti-aircraft guns.

[garhkal]

If i was to 'rate' the firepowers for a Flak screen i would have it based on something like this.

For each arc a ship wishes to protect with a flak screen he rolls Tactics against the enemy. If successful he can then roll full gunnery. IF it fails he only rolls half.
For every 5 the gunnery roll has, opponents have their maneuvering increased by 3. This then sets a difficulty for enemy fighters to break through.
If they fail, they take damage.
Maneuvering failed by 1-4 = 3d damage
5-8 = 4d damage
9-12 = 5d damage
13-16 = 6d damage
17-20 = 7d damage
21+ = 8d damage
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[atgxtg]

That would make what your firring not very important.

How about the base damage is tied to the damage rating of the weapon being fired? Maybe 1/2 value for "near miss". Then go to full value and up 1D each step after that?.