https://cannotgetyourshipout.blogspot.com/2021/05/flak-guns-added-to-offensive-retrofits.html

I forget this place exists most of the time, sorry. I still don't like the forum layout but I have hope that it could get more traffic with some quality of life improvements. Here's an article about Admiral Trench.

@SithLrd88 No. The main Armada forum was the general discussion and then you could go to sub-forums from there, rather than everything was its own sub-forum. Each thread worked chronologically without these nested response sub-discussions. It was much easier to get a general idea when a discussion had updated and which sub-forums had activity going on. Here I need to do work to figure out what happened where and then figure out where the new comment is among all the nested sub-comments.

Visually parsing the forum here is difficult. The landing page just leads to more sub-forums and the sub-forums themselves spiral into little sub-discussions as you can reply to either the main thread or a specific comment. It's difficult to easily see what's happening for me, so I'm not very active. If that was ever addressed, I think you'd see more activity here.

@GhostofNobodyInParticular Thanks. I don't mean to be nitpicky, but I'm already finding I don't really like checking on the new forum because I have no idea where new responses actually are and scrolling through a big thread is a mess.

Re: Jendon If Jendon is tapping in a squad that isn't an expensive ace, you really should've spent your points somewhere else. If we price him as though he's always giving an attack to the most expensive ace, then he should always cost the same as the most expensive Imperial squadron. 20 is fine, in my opinion. Giving Maarek another attack (his usual job) is great but once Maarek is dead or out of range if he doesn't have a solid backup option, he's just a Relay 2 node and an extra fairly regular attack. 20 points for "sometimes great, but if you snipe his big friend is not that good" is fine. It's complicated by effects like Squall keeping Jendon bouncing around but that's the fault of FFG for printing Squall in the first place and outside the scope of a squad points change. Re: Mauler 18 is 2.57 times the cost of a 7 point TIE Fighter squad. Mauler has about the same durability as two TIEs (sometimes less depending on the fate of that scatter token) and if he splashes for 2-3 damage once then he's doing about the same total damage as two TIE Fighters but in a one-squad package. He can get nuts with multiple hops but Tien Numb can get nuts with multiple splashes too. I worried that at 19-20 he'd just be too pricey. It's basically on the Mauler player to find a way to splash more than once or for more than 2-3. It's on his opponent to try to stop that. Assuming he's used in a fairly average way, 18 feels like a fine compromise but I'm not opposed to more. It just feels like maybe too much. Re: Vader I'd give him serious consideration at 19. He's an absolute beast against squads (seriously one of the best anti-squad aces in the game, hands down), especially with Flight Controllers. He's fine against ships (average of 1 damage due to the crits counting as damage, although he's not a Bomber). It's just Escort lets him down is all. On a side note, if it was up to me I'd remove every automatic-damage and out-of-activation movement effect from the game and replace them with something else as they create difficult-to-balance effects but that's outside the scope of the mental exercise.

Question: is it possible to make following threads or sub-forums easier? I'm following general but it doesn't seem to do anything. If a thread updates I need to manually scroll through and see what exactly happened by the timestamp of replies, which is a bit of a hassle given it could be a nested response to an earlier comment or a new comment at the end.

The squadrons companion article, where I have another chance to be wrong about everything. ;)

@RapidReload Wait I'm sorry are you saying CR90s and MC30s are bad? Because... what? But yes, Onager points increase. Start with that, see how it goes.

Narrowing the special weapon firing arc would help but that's unrealistic as it would require new cardboard and furthermore would likely cause bidding wars as it would make last+first with the Onager even better than it already is. All we're realistically left with is points changes and/or changing the Ignition rules.

That's where I'm at as well. I know more or less why but just like you I'm NDA-bound.

Combat Interdictor having better long-ranged attacks and flak counts for something and I worry reducing it too much actually may put it into more direct competition with the VSD-II. I badly want to mess with upgrade slots there but that's not just a points cut, so here we are :(. It's one of those ships where new cardboard would be preferable as part of an overall rebalancing. ISD-II in my experience in 1.5 needs a lot more upkeep and management to perform at similar levels to 1.0 and hence a slight cut is all right. I wouldn't cry if they left it alone at 120, but a minor cut felt warranted. Agreed that it's anyone's guess what they actually do. We'll see.

@geek19 NOW LISTEN HERE YOU

Yeah I also quickly turned off email notifications after suddenly my inbox started glowing, haha.

This is what it looks like now. Less background graphic but it's been replaced with just the basic central bar and no more text space. I want to be clear I view this as collaborative troubleshooting and not criticism ;).

A bit better, yeah. Still a bit too narrow for my liking (once you factor in the sidebar and the background graphic around 40% of the page is actual forum space) but I acknowledge others may feel differently.

I'm not sure if it's my monitor being fairly wide but it feels like the functional forum part of the page takes up roughly the middle half and the background image takes up the remaining half (one quarter to each side). Maybe widen the forum a bit? That's all I've got. Otherwise looks good.