Quote Originally Posted by catswift View Post
Could you explain the purpose of the randomized initiative? You also don't speculate ranges for possible initiative values for ships (other than the +5 for diplomatic status), so I don't know if 1-20 is supposed to be a small difference or if it could be a really big difference.

I like the addition of ATKSPD. Should introduce a good variance in ships if assigned well.

[edit] Oh, wait. Are you saying all ships have a random initiative and there is no base value per ship? [/edit]
It says it rolls the 1-20 then adds the ship's initiative value, so makes it sound to me like each ship (class I'm assuming) will have it's own initiative modifier that gets added to the roll.