STEEL ASSAULT DEMO DOWNLOAD UPDATE

Maximum values of incoming missiles and artillery salvoes were added to prevent from hardcore min-maxing (but can be lifted if players wish to).Such hit-and-run tricks would be OK in fighter-to-fighter actions, but not in case of wargame, in which you command the entire squadrons of huge warships. The possibility of returning fire was added to reduce invicibility of the squadrons which could fire at the border of the range, turn and move out of the range (note S'n'S uses fixed move-after-action procedure).Regroup! and Repair! directly links to the beginning phase to show that these are the same regroup and repair rolls and all rules apply to both. The unfair advantage of owning the same amount of Figthers on a few smaller carriers instead of few dedicated was removed. Some of the orders were revisited and rebalanced, especially Launch figthers.It makes the plotting of courses and positioning more important and getting and make the game more tactical, as getting the rear of the enemy squadron is much more difficult but also more rewarding. Instead there is 'Target the engines!' rule, which adds nice bonus to shooting from behind. Crossing the T rule is gone - this artefact of age of sail (and other space combat wargames) had little added value to the game.These two changes greatly reduce number of in-game calculations.

Instead the commanders with higher Discipline reduce more DP the the beggining of the phase.

The Discipline is made in analogical way: now number of Disorganisation Points are not reduced by commander's Discipline value.

As the result big squadrons survibility is increased making them as attractive choice as swarms of small ones. All squadrons get the damage in the same way, but repair speed is connected with squadron strenght. There is no additional modifiers to damage, double rolls etc.The version of 1.3 not only makes the game even more fluent and player-friendly but this time I also added a lot of new content! The first version of Stars and Steel was written and released in difficult time of CoViD-19, when possibilities of getting feedback was limited and it was not the secret that the updates will be needed.

STEEL ASSAULT DEMO DOWNLOAD UPDATE

This one is really big and I think it's last big update and I hope this is last major update of core ruleset. I'm not going to be humble: the goal is simple - to make Stars and Steel the coolest ruleset dealing with huge space battles! Today there is important day for me - after a few long months of work I'm very happy to release veriosn 1.3 of Stars and Steel.

Steel assault demo download