I am currently involved (along with several other people) in the development of "modernized" house-rules for LBB2, fixing the main issues and allowing for more variance without invalidating most "vanilla" LBB2 designs.
The main thread detailing our current work could be found here.
The main changes and additions will be:
1) Range-Band Combat as an option (for those of us, like me, who don't like vectors).
2) An expanded hull table, both filling the blanks (e.g. 300-dtons, 500-dtons, 1,200-dtons and so on) and expanding the table up to 12,000-dtons.
3) Additional ship components (e.g. Medlab, Laboratory, Hydroponics etc).
4) More varied weapons (e.g. Plasma, Fusion, Kinetic-Kill, Particle etc).
5) Clarified Missile and Sand rules.
6) Armor (one point of armor absorbs one "hit").
7) Massed Fire and a solution to the "150 lasers throwing to-hit per turn" problem.
8) Radiation Damage (ala S3: Missiles).
9) Small Craft design (using The Oz's rules).
10) Different TL limits on drives and hull size, allowing for larger hulls at lower TLs.
11) Computers modified into describing the ship's electronics system (sensors, communications and computer) and not just the mainframe; same tonnage/price, different interpretation.
Will such a system encourage you to use (the modified) LBB2?
The main thread detailing our current work could be found here.
The main changes and additions will be:
1) Range-Band Combat as an option (for those of us, like me, who don't like vectors).
2) An expanded hull table, both filling the blanks (e.g. 300-dtons, 500-dtons, 1,200-dtons and so on) and expanding the table up to 12,000-dtons.
3) Additional ship components (e.g. Medlab, Laboratory, Hydroponics etc).
4) More varied weapons (e.g. Plasma, Fusion, Kinetic-Kill, Particle etc).
5) Clarified Missile and Sand rules.
6) Armor (one point of armor absorbs one "hit").
7) Massed Fire and a solution to the "150 lasers throwing to-hit per turn" problem.
8) Radiation Damage (ala S3: Missiles).
9) Small Craft design (using The Oz's rules).
10) Different TL limits on drives and hull size, allowing for larger hulls at lower TLs.
11) Computers modified into describing the ship's electronics system (sensors, communications and computer) and not just the mainframe; same tonnage/price, different interpretation.
Will such a system encourage you to use (the modified) LBB2?