Re-release of Stars at War - Aug 30th

[Cralis]

The Starfire Design Studio has finally finished rebuilding the "Stars at War" supplement for Classic Starfire! To give us time to rebuild our packages and to put the release out on War Game Vault, we are planning to release the supplement on August 30th!

[coldsteel]

So this is just a PDF version of the original sourcebook? Nothing new?

[Cralis]

So this is just a PDF version of the original sourcebook? Nothing new?

It is in electronic format (it is not a scan, it is a rebuilt document), and it's been reformatted to make it easier to read and print. The content remains the same.

Edit: I should point out that with an actual electronic document you can do word searches and you can copy and paste out of it, for example copying the ship designs to build a fleet sheet in preparation for playing a scenario. You cannot do any of this with a scanned copy.

[coldsteel]

Noice.

[PracticalM]

One of these days, I'm going to have to take the history data from the project I did with Marvin and rebuild the Stars at War fleets in ULTRA or Solar.

When my life calms down a bit I should work on it. Though I've been saying that for the last 10 years or so.
My last child goes to college in 3 years so maybe then.

[Cralis]

One of these days, I'm going to have to take the history data from the project I did with Marvin and rebuild the Stars at War fleets in ULTRA or Solar.

Occasionally someone asks if this has been done yet... I tell them to go ahead, it's not as easy as it sounds.

When my life calms down a bit I should work on it. Though I've been saying that for the last 10 years or so.
My last child goes to college in 3 years so maybe then.

My first one is heading into the Marine Corps here at the end of the year. I've got a minimum of 9 more years until the last one might head out...

[Cralis]

Since so many people have asked, here is a list of the typo and formatting changes made in the Stars At War -- copied straight from the document!

• Changed product copyright information.
• Updated product publisher information.
• Corrected typos.
• Standardized the display of engine tuners as ([Engine]-It).
• Standardized system display note syntax and display tables.
• Removed TL indictators from (SY).
• Truncated some large unit control sheets for clarity.
• 30.01.07 - Changed Galloway's World to Galloway's Star.
• 30.01.10 - Added two more Dull Knife-class FT6(T) to roster.
• 30.01.14 - Removed Suffren from Rodney-class DD roster.
• 30.03.03 - Removed Caesar from Scipio-class DD roster.
• 30.03.09 - Added Holum to Bolcho-class DD roster.
• 30.04.13 - Added Tobak to Tynagu-class DD roster.
• 30.04.14 - Added System Set-Up to scenario.
• 30.06.04 - Special Rule 2 changed Orion to Rigelian.
• 30.06.05 - Corrected SS-1 control sheet where RchRc was supposed to be RcLhRc.
• 30.06.14 - Corrected system name in Set-Up.
• 30.06.15 - Defined Viking-class DDE in TG 1.2.
• 30.06.22 - updated Littniek entry to 200 SM.
• 30.06.25 - Orbital Habitat SS - removed extra "{" from control sheet.
• System 0001 - Removed WP distance data for WP 4 to WP 4.
• System 0008 - corrected Bearing of WP14 to 3 instead of 33.
• System 0016 - ST world has a HI of 7.
• System 0041 - Fixed planet 6 moon 1 bearing.

[Kumakunshu]

One of these days, I'm going to have to take the history data from the project I did with Marvin and rebuild the Stars at War fleets in ULTRA or Solar.

Occasionally someone asks if this has been done yet... I tell them to go ahead, it's not as easy as it sounds.

No Joke
The first question that I thing should be answered first is, what ULTRA or Solar Weapon System should be used to replace the W (known as the Gun/Missile Launcher) Weapon System.

[szurkey]

No Joke
The first question that I thing should be answered first is, what ULTRA or Solar Weapon System should be used to replace the W (known as the Gun/Missile Launcher) Weapon System.

That's part of why I still love 2nd & 3rdR, W & Wa!

[Skarn]

Edit: I should point out that with an actual electronic document you can do word searches and you can copy and paste out of it, for example copying the ship designs to build a fleet sheet in preparation for playing a scenario. You cannot do any of this with a scanned copy.

That depends on what software you scan with.

Also, the full version of Acrobat has had OCR which could be applied to existing PDFs since at least version 8 (more than ten years).