There are a lot of rules on this website, and it is easy to get overwhelmed and wonder where to start. do not be put off, for while yes, there is a lot here, it is the result of a lot of time and effort and it is also complete. If you just want to get a couple of ships battling each other, you will not need half of what's here. So, to make life easy, the following is what I would consider the basics of this conversion. Try these, and if you like it, then you can move on to bigger things. And if you do not, you will not need to spend more time trying to get through the rest of the pages here. Only the Basic Set of the StarFleet Battles game is needed, although if you are lucky, you might even get away with just having the Cadets Training Manual, just treat fighters as faster shuttles, ignore Asps and you will have an acceptable basic game.

The Basic Rules:

The only rules you actually need to play are as follows. you will need to use your browsers 'Back' button to get back to this page as the links on the following pages will take you back to the main menu's.

• The Basic Rules
• New Weapons
• The New DAC
• Fighters

And that is all the rules you will need to learn. However, you will need some ships to play with, and for your first few games, I recommend the following. Counters for these ships can be found in the Downloads section.

• Colonial Battlestar Galactica
• Colonial Pulsar Gunstar
• Colonial Destroyer
• Colonial Light Carrier


• Cylon Baseship
• Cylon Attack Star

Scenarios:

For your first games, I would recommend starting out small. Go with the Attack the Baseship game, but substitute the Baseship and Battlestar for the following ships.

• Substitute the Baseship for a Cylon Attack Star.
• Substitute the Battlestar for a Colonial Destroyer and Colonial Light Carrier.
  Neither ship carries any Asps for this game.

Or for a longer game, use the following:

• The Cylon player gets a Baseship
• The Colonial player gets the Battlestar Galactica and a Colonial Pulsar class Gunstar.
  As before, no Colonial ship carries any Asp fighters.

Once you've mastered these two games, you are ready to go the full distance. Play the game again, but this time use the following ships:

• The Cylon player gets a Baseship
• The Colonial player gets the Battlestar Galactica and a Colonial Light Carrier.

If, after these games you like what you see, you are then welcome to browse the rest of the site, adding any other rules that take your fancy. You do not need to add all the rules, and most of them work quite happily without any other rules being needed.

Charts and Tables:

The following chart extracts may be useful for the ships above.