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    Starfire Basic is a simple starship combat game where each ship is represented by a single line of text indicating its systems. Ships move a number of hexagons equal to their ion engines each turn and can perform actions like firing weapons. Damage is represented by crossing out letters from left to right. Players design ships by allocating shields, armor, weapons, and other systems within the ship's hull capacity. The document provides the rules and system abbreviations for a campaign using this version of Starfire Basic.

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    Starfire Basic is a simple starship combat game where each ship is represented by a single line of text indicating its systems. Ships move a number of hexagons equal to their ion engines each turn and can perform actions like firing weapons. Damage is represented by crossing out letters from left to right. Players design ships by allocating shields, armor, weapons, and other systems within the ship's hull capacity. The document provides the rules and system abbreviations for a campaign using this version of Starfire Basic.

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    Starfire Basic is a simple starship combat game where each ship is represented by a single line of text indicating its systems. Ships move a number of hexagons equal to their ion engines each turn and can perform actions like firing weapons. Damage is represented by crossing out letters from left to right. Players design ships by allocating shields, armor, weapons, and other systems within the ship's hull capacity. The document provides the rules and system abbreviations for a campaign using this version of Starfire Basic.

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    Starfire Basic is a simple starship combat game where each ship is represented by a single line of text indicating its systems. Ships move a number of hexagons equal to their ion engines each turn and can perform actions like firing weapons. Damage is represented by crossing out letters from left to right. Players design ships by allocating shields, armor, weapons, and other systems within the ship's hull capacity. The document provides the rules and system abbreviations for a campaign using this version of Starfire Basic.

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    STARFIRE BASIC

    Starfire began in 1979 as a simple, fast-playing game of starship combat. Its original micro-pouch edition,
    published by Task Force Games, cost about US$5 and featured about 10 pages of rules and 20 pages of
    scenarios. Ship display sheets were painfully simple, with each starship capable of being represented by a single
    line of text, like so:

    Endeavor DD (2) SSSAAHWILWIWIIII(6)

    Endeavor was the ship's name. DD is the modern-naval abbreviation for a Destroyer. The (2) represented its
    Turn Mode, i.e. how many hexagons the ship had to move forward before it could make a 60 degree turn. Each
    S was a shield, each A was a unit of armor, the H was a cargo hold, each W was a gun/missile "weapon"
    launcher, each I was an ion engine, and the L was a laser. The (6) was just a quick summary of how many ion
    engines the starship had, and thus how fast it was -- a ship could move as many hexagons per turn as it had
    engines.

    Each ship was assumed to be able to run all of its systems at full power every turn. Missiles and gun shells were
    in unlimited supply. If a ship was hit by enemy weapons and took damage, letters on its line of text would get
    crossed off from left to right, one letter for each damage point, so that after taking 7 damage points the
    Endeavor would look like this:

    Endeavor DD (2) xxxxxxxILWIWIIII(6)

    As you could imagine, designing your own ships was trivially easy. You put your shields and armor and cargo
    holds on the left, so that they'd get destroyed before your critical systems did, and then you packed whatever
    useful systems you could afford to buy into the remaining "hull" space. Each system had a cost in
    "megacredits," for purposes of game balance, and a size in hull spaces. (Engines cost more megacredits and
    took up more hull spaces the bigger the ship they were installed in.) If you wanted to get really fancy, you could
    even use "Tech Levels" to indicate whether a particular system was available for building into your ship or not
    -- e.g., missile launchers were available at Tech Level 1, but force beams did not become available until Tech
    Level 4. Starships from different races could meet each other and have big space battles thanks to the existence
    of naturally-occurring "warp points" that linked star systems together.

    It was an exceedingly simple, elegant system.

    So, we will use the same system, calling it “Starfire Basic” (Starfire II). Below is a list of systems being used in
    this campaign:

    A = Armor

    S = Shields

    H = Cargo Hold

    L = Laser

    Q = Crew Quarters

    Lh = Life Support
    X = Sensors

    BbS or BbL = Boat bay small or large

    Br = Bridge

    W = Missile launcher

    F = Forcebeam

    I = Ion Engines

    G = Gun

    L = Laser

    Z = Datalink (3 ships can be datalinked together)

    *All weapons have unlimited ammo.

    *All systems are run at full power every turn.

    2nd Edition Starfire To-Hit and Damage Tables


    To-Hit Table
    Range 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21- 25-
    24 30
    Gun 11 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Missile - 4 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 - -
    CM - 4 7 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5
    Beam 12 12 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 6 6 5 4 4 3 2 2

    Damage Table
    Range 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21- 25-30
    24
    Gun 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Missile 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - -
    CM 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
    Force 5 4 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - -
    Energy 5 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Primary 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - -
    Laser 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    Needle 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - - - - - - - - -

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