by bakija
GamePlayer wrote:
I'm considering purchasing some of the ship SSD books on the e23 website. Do the Captain's Edition Basic Set rules fully support the Module R2, R3, and R4 SSD books or are additional rules from other books required? I'm not currently interested in going beyond the Captain's Edition rules for SFB.
R2, R3, and R4 contain some ships that only use Basic Set rules, and then also contain some ships that are from expansion sets:
-R2: Has Feds, Kzinti, and Orion (all of which can be used with just the basic rule set) and then some Andromedans (which you can't use unless you also have module C2).
-R3 has Klingons (which you can use with just the basic rules), and then Lyrans, Hydrans, and WYNs that you need module C1 to use.
-R4 has Romulans, Gorns, and Tholians (which you can use with just the basic rules) and then the ISC that you need module C2 to use.
So of those, R3 is probably the roughest purchase, as it has the least stuff you can use with just the basic set rules. All of those also have things like carriers (that are rough to use without Advanced Missions or Module J; but you could certainly pull off Kzinti carriers with just the basic set). And various other wacky rules, like Special Sensors and Stasis Field Generators that only show up in Advanced Missions.