FASA Notes
Though several of the ships appearing in this guide are originally from FASA’s Starship Tactical Combat Simulator, the numbers and specifics are wildly different, reflecting both a stricter adherence to ‘canon’ references, as well as a more ‘modern’ focus on starship capabilities. None of the ships, as listed, will match the specifications given within FASA’s guides.
That said, they’re still playable when broken down to their key components. Specific numbers will be different than FASA, of course, and a ships’ performance may play quite as expected, but the combat rules will still work.
Phasers: The standard Class IX phaser in this guide replaces a swath of phasers found in the FASA guide. The ‘exact’ match of the Class IX is FASA’s FH-3 type phaser bank.
Photon Torpedoes: The MK-IV launcher referenced heavily in this guide roughly corresponds to the FP-5 listed in FASA’s.
Shields: The standard shield grid in this guide is the PFF 2a. This most closely translates to the FSO type shield from FASA’s rules.
Warp Drive: The PB-32 ‘standard’ warp drive used in this manual covers a large swath of systems from the FASA manuals. The closest match, performance-wise, to the PB-32 would be the FWF-1 engine.
The PB-32S, for its part, most closely matches the FWC-2 in performance.
Impulse Drive: The IPI86E commonly referring to in this guide most closely matches the FIE-2 found on the Constitution class from the Federation Starship Recognition Manual.