View source for "Battleboard Starting Positions (BSP)" by Overworked - 04 February 2003

*Source: [http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/index.php?t=msg&th=284&start=0&rid=78&S=ec44aaab2e93b62e1685068a1ba8fea1 Battleboard Starting Positions (BSP) in the Must Know section of HWF]
Starting position on the Stars! battle board is pre-determined - and based on the player order; i.e. the third race in order will always start in the same relative position. 

[this is essentially a cut and paste of my post to the SBD forum with a few edits, I figure having a copy in this forum for reference is worth a few minutes work.]

This was worked out in a few alliance games, and used to great effect. In one case we had a team member not join a battle in order to make sure the main enemy group got sandwiched by two 1000+ beamer stacks. 

Of course, LEit was the person who actually created the diagrams posted below, and all credit goes to him for this.

- Kurt


Additional Comment:

Battle preparation is a task of every good admiral. Your fleet's avenue of approach to the battlefield is part of this - depends on forces available, intelligence on enemy forces and capabilities. This can be reflected by making use of the information below.


This can be done by the expedient of transferring a single ship to allies the turn before. At this point you enter the grey world of how players/hosts define such activities as "fair". Much like defining "chaff", or acceptable "fleet split" rules, I suspect that defining rules for "battle board positioning" are going to be a matter of taste. In my opinion use of this knowledge should not be banned (and arguably, how can you prove it?), though players might want to show a little discretion about the methods used in attempting to manipulate it.

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For players above 9:
A is 10
B is 11
C is 12
D is 13
E is 14
F is 15
G is 16

These are in order by player number. Just take the lowest player in the battle for 1, next lowest for 2 and so on.

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