Heavy War Destroyers

SFB->SFC Conversion: Heavy War Destroyer Rules

Heavy war destroyers are modular ships with both weapon option mounts (rear facing) and non-weapon options (systems). These can thus be configured into many different configurations. Conversion rules are therefore needed because of the options

Basic rules

See R6's G33.1.
See SFB Annex #8H for costs, in various modules after R6 was released

Roles to create

The following HDW roles are expected:

carrier / pf tender
escort
commando
survey
warship

.. note: you don't HAVE to do just limit yourself to those above. You can create any variant you want if it's a good ship! ie:

casual carrier warship
- doesn't need escort
marine warship
- NWOs equipped solely with transporters and barracks. No need for that extra stuff.

Please see their respective sections below on how to set these up in the shiplist.

Carrier HDW

See R6's G33.42.

Must have at least 8 SFB fighters to qualify as carrier
the ship already has 2 fighters. remember that.

How to apply conversion:

convert all Power options to fighterbays
- no cost for conversion from APR/AWR that have a '*'
convert all NWOs to fighterbays
- +2 BPV per box converted
apply the 2/3 SFB conversion to fighters
- ie: 10 SFB fighters -> 6 SFC fighters (2 groups of 3 fighters)
- increase the BPV by 2 per fighter (so likely +12 BPV)
- set up base fighters for the race
Add 1 deck crew per SFB fighter
- at no extra cost
pick weapons that will have low impact on the power curve
- ie: drone, PLaD, Phaser.
Add CARRIER Enhanced Shiplist Role
Set SpecialRole to 'V' unless 'R'estricted is necessary
- ie: unique or conjectural ship
Set type to CARRIER unless SPECIAL is necessary
- ie: LDR are all SPECIAL

PF Tender HDW

See R6's G33.46.

Must have 2 special sensors in rear weapon options
- +10 BPV per sensor. Sucks I know.
Must have 6 tractors with mech links
Must have repair boxes for the PFs.

How to apply conversion:

replace all APR power options with Repair boxes
- at no additional cost of course
install 4 tractors with mechlinks in the NWOs
- +2 per tractor with mechlink, so +8 BPV
install mechlinks (IF NECESSARY) on the ship's own 2 tractors
- +1 per tractor, so +2 BPV
pay for the 4 interceptors
- +10 BPV per interceptor, so +40 BPV
Add PF_TENDER Enhanced Shiplist Role
Set SpecialRole to 'V' unless 'R'estricted is necessary
- ie: unique or conjectural ship
Set type to CARRIER unless SPECIAL is necessary
- ie: LDR are all SPECIAL

Escort HDW

See R6's G33.43

no heavy weapons in weapon options
All power options must be converted to fighterbays
Aegis must be installed.
- +1 BPV per weapon controlled by limited aegis
- +2 BPV per weapon controlled by full aegis
- "All direct-fire weapons including G racks and plasma racks much be under aegis control"
- weapon options are limited to:
  - phasers
  - ADDs
  - Type G racks
  - PLaD

How to apply conversion:

convert all power options to fighterbays
- at no extra cost
- you don't actually buy the fighters
the NWOs can be whatever you want.. however I have suggestions
- more tractors! Get at least 2 more
  - +1 BPV per tractor
- labs on the rest, which would be useful to ID incoming weapons
  - +2 BPV per lab
chose a good weapon for defensive configuration
- you can create a different version for each possibility if you want
- plasma races: I strongly recommend the PLaD!
- drone races: Use the DroG!
- hydrans: can have PhG
- others: use phasers
increase the BPV for the aegis, likely FULL aegis
- +2 BPV per weapon
Set the ship's Enhanced Shiplist Role as ESCORT
Set the SpecialRole to 'E' unless 'R'estricted is needed.

Commando HDW

See R6's G33.44

must have at least 2 barracks
must have at least 2 cargo
must have at least 2 GAS shuttles and 1 HTS shuttle

How to apply conversion:

convert all power options to shuttle bays
- we can't do GAS or HTS shuttles, so we'll just add 4 more normal shuttle bays
- conversion is at no cost. Shuttles are included
Set up 2 NWOs are Cargo boxes
- +1 BPV per cargo box
Set up the rest of the NWOs as Barracks
- +1 BPV per barracks
  - Add 10 marines to Marines Base per barracks
  - Add 20 marines to Marines Max per barracks
weapons can be whatever, but keep in mind you don't have your power options, so try to use weapons that won't break your power curve
- phasers
- PLaDs
- Drones/ADDs
- PLaFs? (stasis)
Add the Enhanced Shiplist Role "COMMANDO"
Set the class type (aka hull type) to "SPECIAL"
Set the SpecialRole to "M" unless "R"estricted

Survey HDW

See R6's G33.41 (Exploration)

must have 2 special sensors
all Power Options to be converted to cargo
have an additional Probe-10 launcher installed
have 2 labs added

How to apply conversion:

convert all power options to cargo
the 2 weapon options are Special Sensors
- +20 BPV. sucks, I know.
convert one of the NWOs to a probe-10
- +2 BPV
convert 2 NWOs to labs
- +2 BPV per lab
the last NWO is all up to you. I would recommend another lab box.
set the Enhanced Shiplist Role to SURVEY
set the SpecialRole to 'S', or if you must, 'R'estricted
leave the Class Type alone, unless you HAVE to set it to SPECIAL for a different reason

Warship HDW

This is the standard configuration, and there are no special requirements

How to apply conversion:

Leave the power options alone! Power is good.
the NWOs can be anything that make sense. I would recommend a little of everything.
- ie: +1 transporter, +1 tractor, +1 lab, +1 shuttle bay and shuttle
  - +1 BPV +1 BPV +2 BPV +3 BPV == +7 BPV
the weapons can be whatever fits
- make a variant for each decent possibility?
Add Enhanced Shiplist Role "WARSHIP"

Casual Carrier HDW

leave the power options alone!
convert all the NWOs to fighterbays

How to apply conversion:

Leave the power options alone! Power is good.
the NWOs become fighter bays
- +2 BPV per bay
Add basic fighters
- This would be around 6 fighters in SFB
- with the 2/3 rule, this usually makes it 4 fighters in SFC. (2 groups of 2)
- +2 BPV per SFC fighter.
the weapons can be whatever fits
- make a variant for each decent possibility?
Add Enhanced Shiplist Role "WARSHIP"

Marine Warship HDW

leave the power options alone!
convert the NWOs to barracks and transporters

How to apply conversion:

Leave the power options alone! Power is good.
change the NWOs to barracks and transporters
- ie: 2 barracks and 2 transporters
  - +2 BPV +2 BPV == +4 BPV
  - increase the Marines Base by 10 per barracks
  - increase the Marines Max by 20 per barracks
the weapons can be whatever fits
- make a variant for each decent possibility?
Add Enhanced Shiplist Role "WARSHIP"