Sacrifice of Angels 2 is going quite well despite the "entrenchment setbacks". TBH i am losing interest in SoA 2.
However SoA 2 was not the mod i originally had in mind to do for sins when it first came out. I originally wanted to do a trek mod in the classic TOS era, but not as you all knew it.
How many of you here heard of "Starfleet Battles", and its offshoot "Federation, and Empire"? For those that dont know a little web searching will get you up to speed. SFB was, and still is an ubergeek board game. You know? in a time before computers 
We used a paper map. Cardboard playing pieces. SSD's, pen, paper, and our imaginations. It was a very popular game during its time which focused on mainly tactical starship combat (individual ships). An offshoot of SFB called Federation, and Empire came shortly after focusing on the Grand Strategic side (entire fleets, planet, and economy management).
A computer game called Starfleet Command was based on the SFB universe. The 1st three installments (SFC SFC 2 and Orion Pirates) remained faithful to the SFB rules, and stats as best as could possibly be done at the time. SFC 3 has NOTHING to do with the SFB ruleset, and is a completely different game imo. These games focused on tactical ship combat as well. Though you could control up to 5 ships per side.
To give you an idea of what i have in mind SFB/F&E is based on the star trek universe, Specifically the Franz Joseph Tech Manual. Which was the only "official" reference for Trek in 1979. While star trek itself diverged when the movies, and especially TNG came out. SFB remained in the TOS era disregarding canon, and adhereing strictly to its own fiction. While some of that fiction can be outright silly. It has the fact that it is all consistant which is more than we can say for "canon" trek.
What i want to do is make a mod based on the "Starfleet Universe". More specifically Federation, and Empire. The reason being is because all of the ships, stats, and rules are set in stone. There is no "wait i saw this ship do this one episode, and that the next". There is no "Thats not canon", because none of SFB is canon! It is its own universe based on trek. However everything in SFB is absolute. There is a rule to cover everything. The hardest part will be the translation of the SFB rules to Sins. That will be a daunting challenge, because Sins weapons, and stats are "general" not specific. There is no loss of DPS, or chance to hit with range. There is EW, but it is very basic, and its an ability in sins. You cant simulate wild weasels in sins (at least not that i am aware of). This is why i want to lean more toward Federation, and Empire because like in sins the ship to ship combat is basic. However in F&E the ship combat is a little "too" basic.
Obviously not every ship class, and thier ridiculous amounts of variants will be in the mod. It will be very basic with the core ship classes of each faction. Research will be required for the higher tier ships like battleships, and "X-Ships", but the core capitals (carrier, cruiser, dreadnaught) should be research free. Also SFB carriers can be in the mod, but the fighter/PF spam of SFB will not be. I need to figure out a way to get the Andromidans in if i chose to do this.
The art of SFB leaves much to be desired. While the standard federation, and Klingon ships look like they should in the classic TOS era. The Romulans and some of the minor factions look absolutely atrocious. Basically most of SFB artwork consists of nothing but tin cans, saucers, cigars with warp nacelles bolted on. We will take a lot of artistic licence like taldren did with SFC if we chose to do this mod.
The last major obstical of course is Amarillo Design (the makers of SFB) itself. They were cool with modding SFC since it was based off of SFB. But Sins is another story, and another licence. I may need to get permission from ADB to give them "free advertising" by making this mod. If i dont get it this will end the whole idea before it even begins.
I basically wanted to toss this out and see what people thought about it. Like i said i am just toying with the idea.
