Better way to build a budget - you just had to use those words didn't ya
Based on what I've since learned - Chris Thrash was correct in his assessment - the budget for Lunion should be higher - not as I've set it up. Chances are good that it will be between three to five times higher - I have to recompute the GDP of every planet and work from there. Meanwhile, I'm mulling over the counters that Sigg Oddra provided. I'm going to have to try and figure out what constitutes an "offensive" factor for a counter, a bombardment factor, and a defensive factor. I was very surprised to see some jump 1 fleets in the Fifth Frontier war, along with a few Jump 2's.
I was taken aback at the notion that the Regina squadrons contained Jump 1 cruisers! Granted, some of the squadrons were required to move at the slowest speed of its members thus permitting Jump-2 ships to be intermixed with the Jump-1 ships, but even so!
I guess the next step is to cross reference all the major shipyards per subsector to see which ones were likely the originators of the squadrons in FFW. I noted that there is a fleet set up sheet where you place all the ship counters in the correct fleet box - and then move only the fleet counters themselves on the mapboard. Those fleet designations do NOT match the fleet designations for MegaTraveller's REBELLION. As I look at the THE SPINWARD MARCHES CAMPAIGN - with its rendering of the Fifth Frontier war in a brief historical vlew doesn't tell me much - and even seems to be somewhat contradictory in nature to what the FFW boardgame depicts (note: This is after a cursory glance, not a week's in depth analysis
But rest assured, I will try and create some guidelines for myself in budgets. Why do you think I'm trying to figure out the costs of things - so we can tell the game designes "ok, the naval elements cost this much, and the ground forces elements are estimated to have cost this much - and to get this much of a force mix, someone had to spend XYZ GigaCredits - which is roughly 4% of the GDP of the entire Sector.
Why do you think I started out small with Lunion?![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Based on what I've since learned - Chris Thrash was correct in his assessment - the budget for Lunion should be higher - not as I've set it up. Chances are good that it will be between three to five times higher - I have to recompute the GDP of every planet and work from there. Meanwhile, I'm mulling over the counters that Sigg Oddra provided. I'm going to have to try and figure out what constitutes an "offensive" factor for a counter, a bombardment factor, and a defensive factor. I was very surprised to see some jump 1 fleets in the Fifth Frontier war, along with a few Jump 2's.
I was taken aback at the notion that the Regina squadrons contained Jump 1 cruisers! Granted, some of the squadrons were required to move at the slowest speed of its members thus permitting Jump-2 ships to be intermixed with the Jump-1 ships, but even so!
I guess the next step is to cross reference all the major shipyards per subsector to see which ones were likely the originators of the squadrons in FFW. I noted that there is a fleet set up sheet where you place all the ship counters in the correct fleet box - and then move only the fleet counters themselves on the mapboard. Those fleet designations do NOT match the fleet designations for MegaTraveller's REBELLION. As I look at the THE SPINWARD MARCHES CAMPAIGN - with its rendering of the Fifth Frontier war in a brief historical vlew doesn't tell me much - and even seems to be somewhat contradictory in nature to what the FFW boardgame depicts (note: This is after a cursory glance, not a week's in depth analysis
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But rest assured, I will try and create some guidelines for myself in budgets. Why do you think I'm trying to figure out the costs of things - so we can tell the game designes "ok, the naval elements cost this much, and the ground forces elements are estimated to have cost this much - and to get this much of a force mix, someone had to spend XYZ GigaCredits - which is roughly 4% of the GDP of the entire Sector.
Why do you think I started out small with Lunion?