My party is currently running with a YT-2000.
If my PC gets his way, we'll have a salvaged Fury-class interceptor up and running "soon".
It's faster,but has way less cargo capacity. Not to mention the distinctive silhouette...
Anyone's Party NOT flying a YT-1300?
About to start rinning my first campaign, and will be giving the group an old and neglected GX1 Shorthauler, mainly just because I like the look of it.
37 minutes ago, Stethemessiah said:About to start rinning my first campaign, and will be giving the group an old and neglected GX1 Shorthauler, mainly just because I like the look of it.
I have never even heard of a... (googles) oh, hey, that's the Long Shot from the old WEG Campaign Pack that we used for ages. Awesome.
My party hops around in a Baudo-class Star Yacht which they stole from the PCs of my old Saga Edition campaign.
Great ship, lots of customization options, but it really suffers in the System Strain department. Gives the mechanic lots to do in battle.
11 hours ago, micheldebruyn said:12 hours ago, Stethemessiah said:About to start rinning my first campaign, and will be giving the group an old and neglected GX1 Shorthauler, mainly just because I like the look of it.
I have never even heard of a... (googles) oh, hey, that's the Long Shot from the old WEG Campaign Pack that we used for ages. Awesome.
It was also the first vessel in WEG's "Stock Ships" supplement.
My group uses the scientific survey vessel from AoR engineer book. It's all beat up and a fun for my engineer to try to fix constantly. Every couple of trips the "check engine" light comes on and he has to fix it.
Edited by HistoryGuyIn the campaigns I've been part of we've used a Gthroc 720, an YV-560, a HWK-1000 and a squad of Y-wings.
Currently, the Ghtroc has been blown up, the Y-wings shot down, someone ran away with the HWK and the YV-560 was so badly damaged the PCs had to borrow an unusually (some would say horrifically) modified YT-1000 called the Chipper Kipper making the group's pilot the Chipper Kipper skipper, much to his annoyance.
We were lumped with a HWK-1000. I just took a HWK-290 jpeg, increase/zoomed etc in Publisher to make it about the same length of a YT1300, then faffed around with MSPaint removing the exterior, overhead lines.. then drew in a decentish floor plan and went with it... simples. TBH having a HWK-1000 from session one made a nice change.. I think we called it Crystal Scar or Eclipse Diamond.. one of those. It was over 2 years ago!
Most ship-owning parties I've been involved with (either as player or GM) have flown modified Gthroc 720s. In my current group (me as GM), the party "leader" is the secret Rebel black sheep of an influential Imperial collaborator family, and she flits around aboard a legally registered Lambda Class Imp.-Shuttle in the guise of being a family envoy and PR agent... together with a ragtag band of "assistants" in her retinue. Fun stuff
My current party has a Acclaimtor class cruiser called the
Havoc,
she has the traditional A10 Warthog style fangs around the torpedo tubes and a complement of 3000 Clones and specialist equipment.
My Rebels however do fly a YT1300 called the
Rocinte
but recently acquired a Nebulon B called the
Matador
.
On 10/3/2019 at 7:21 AM, angelman2 said:Most ship-owning parties I've been involved with (either as player or GM) have flown modified Gthroc 720s.
Space Turtle!
Ghtroc 720 was a favorite design of a friend of mine, and any time he got to be the one to choose what ship the party was traveling in (be it d6 up through Saga Edition), it'd be a Ghtroc 720. Sadly, he's expressed zero interest in the FFG version of Star Wars, but I'm sure that if he were to play he'd be pushing for the group to sail the stars in his much-beloved space turtle.
15 hours ago, Donovan Morningfire said:Space Turtle!
Ghtroc 720 was a favorite design of a friend of mine, and any time he got to be the one to choose what ship the party was traveling in (be it d6 up through Saga Edition), it'd be a Ghtroc 720. Sadly, he's expressed zero interest in the FFG version of Star Wars, but I'm sure that if he were to play he'd be pushing for the group to sail the stars in his much-beloved space turtle.
Thank you sir, my girlfriend will love this!
The players in my recently-concluded tramp steamer campaign flew an oddly-paired Sorosuub luxury yacht and Jumpmaster 3000. The yacht picked up some modifications, including a light turret, bacta tank, amenities, (why wouldn't you?) and a tractor beam. The group's dedicated [Mon Calimari] pilot found an abandoned Y-Wing which he repaired and modified for underwater use. The group also managed to capture an unnamed stealth ship from a criminal syndicate and I had to conjure up some stats for it on the quick. (It's a long story, but they ended up doing some extravehicular nonsense in hyperspace to achieve this and almost died.) All these ships and their modifications were used to great effect and it was a lot of fun. (Although the stealth ship was mostly used for narrative purposes- it wasn't too useful to them.)
In the next campaign, we're going for a squadron/commando thing, and I'd like to start low and keep everyone hungry initially- see how many weird and varied fighters they can collect, and what interesting ways they come up with for acquiring them.
Our long-running campaign about three Jedi survivors has entered a third phrase and seen a change of ships. The group started out in hiding on Nar Shaada eight ears after Order 66 with a modified YT-1210 named the Horizon Ascendant . After blasting their way out of several star ports, changing their registry, joining the nascent "Amidala-Organa Network" and participating in a series of raids the jig was finally up. They were boarded for "inspection" above a remote mining facility on the Outer Rim by officers from an Imperial Raider. Now, our game is AU with the primary change being that Padme is alive. About half way along she became a player character (and the player has done a brilliant job of it). When the player's realized their cover wasn't going to hold the three Jedi staged a "counter boarding action" and fought their way onto the Raider. When the imperial captain realized he was losing his ship he ordered one of the Tie fighters to destroy the now unmanned Horizon Ascendant and initiated the self destruct sequence. Our heroes and numerous imperials had made use of the escape pods. After being playing cat and mouse with the surviving imperials on the ice ball they regrouped and stole a Quad Jumper from the miners and made good their escape while the other two stole just before a Star Destroyer arrived to reinforce the Raider. The destruction of their signature ship was a big psychological blow and left them reeling. They are presently at a backwater trading outpost recouping and regrouping... and eyeing a pair of heavy Hutt fighters than have been modified with jump seats (two each) by the team of bounty hunters the Emperor secretly hired to find them before Vader realized Padme is alive.
Edited by VondyYou do realise that starting this thread has prompted my OCD to kick in and I'm Googling other ship deck plans???? The best one so far is a 28mm scale deck plan of the Tantive IV!!! AWESOME.... now all I have to do is buy Imperial Assault and write an encounter to use it
Edited by ExpandingUniverse7 hours ago, ExpandingUniverse said:You do realise that starting this thread has prompted my OCD to kick in and I'm Googling other ship deck plans???? The best one so far is a 28mm scale deck plan of the Tantive IV!!! AWESOME.... now all I have to do is buy Imperial Assault and write an encounter to use it
Link?
Not sure if this is the particular set of deck plans being discussed, but it might help: http://thompsonpeters.com/eote/deckplans_capital/
27 minutes ago, Stethemessiah said:Link?
There's these... http://thompsonpeters.com/eote/deckplans_capital/
and I remeber colonial chrome a few years back THAT I NEVER DOWNLOADED!!! Oh, the inhumanity of it all....
https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/50stone/media/bWVkaWFJZDo4MTI3MDcz/?ref=
Edited by ExpandingUniverse
7 hours ago, ExpandingUniverse said:You do realise that starting this thread has prompted my OCD to kick in and I'm Googling other ship deck plans???? The best one so far is a 28mm scale deck plan of the Tantive IV!!! AWESOME.... now all I have to do is buy Imperial Assault and write an encounter to use it
I apologise, I never expected this post to be so popular. I was just lamenting how limited my powers of persuasion are. I was heavily lobbying for them to take the Wayfarer Medium Class to hoard all their loot, but I guess I can't out-sell an icon like the Falcon.
*sighs* I'd love such quality deckplans for both Gozanti-Ships, but even the source materials you can find for measurements deviate so much - it hurts to look at them
This
link
which I posted earlier actually has deck plans for the gozanti (military and civilian) but I don't like them very much. I don't think they're very accurate or make much sense. I made my own inspired by these:
In an older EotE campaign, I gave my players a YT-2400. It was a great ship. It cost a little more at the onset, but I fit it in narratively that their patron (sort of a Jon Tunsten of young guns) gave it to them along with some obligation.
Later in the campaign, they took over a Gozanti cruiser from the ISB. We used the deck plans listed above by P-47 Thuderbolt. It was a really fun session or two and very unexpected. We used the freighter configuration. I imagined that there was a blast door between the main bay and the forward compartments that was sealed once the Imps knew they had been boarded. The PCs had to leave the freight bay airlock and spacewalk along the outside of the hull to the forward airlock, battling some probe droids on their way. Anyways, seemed like a bad idea but the PCs were successful and the ship ended up playing a bigger role in the campaign.
20 hours ago, P-47 Thunderbolt said:This link which I posted earlier actually has deck plans for the gozanti (military and civilian) but I don't like them very much. I don't think they're very accurate or make much sense. I made my own inspired by these:
I've seen the link before, but when you compare them to stats like Crew/Passengers or the estimated size of the ships the ones i looked at fell apart quickly.
I'm also familiar with your version of the freighter layout, and it's great. But I'm still looking for good plans for the basic Gozanti and the C-ROC Gozanti. I've found some ok ones for the basic Armed Transport but nothing useful for the C-ROC so far. Which is sad as my group is using one and I'm not that talented with making them myself.