Romulan Star Empire

The Motion Picture Era

STAR TREK conversion notes

Romulan Weapons and Systems
 
Plasma Bolt Launchers (PBLs) - From FT Fleet Book 2 used by the Phalons.   The PBL fires a big ball of plasma every other turn placed before movement up to 30mu away with a strength equal to the weapon class.  Plasma Bolts may be targeted like a fighter group and strength reduced when hit.  The PBL explodes after weapons fire and damges all ships within 6mu with current strength of the Bolt x D6 damage.  Screens can reduced the effect.  See Fleet Book 2 for a full description. 

Cloaking Field - From the More Thrust supplement, Cloaking must be included as a movement order when it is to happen.  Cloaked ships may not fire PBLs or any other weapon.
The rules in MT have you take the mini off the table and for an amount of turns you indicate, movement plotting is done and when the turn to appear happens, perform the movement orders from the last known spot and see where the ship is now and play as normal.
Here is an alternative that may fit the source material (Balance of Terror episode) better: The cloaked miniatures stays on the table but may not be fired upon until Targeted.  To find a cloaked ship, opponent must use a fire con to spot the ship, this fire con can not be used to target this or any other ship in the firing phase. Roll a d6 for each fire con dedicated to finding the cloaked ship and read as regular beam dice and hits totaled. If the result is 0 hits, can not target cloaked ship. 1 'hit', can target cloaked ship but attacks resolved as if 200% actual range. 2+ 'hits', target but resolved as if 150% actual range.   
Once a cloaked ship is targeted and hit by weapons, other ships do not need to perform the targeting rolls but attacks are still resolved with the increased % of range modifiers.
TMP Era cloaks are more effective so the d6 results are determined as if there were Level 1 screens.


Romulan TMP Era Notes:
We never get to see Motion Picture era Romulans though the Klingon's 'Bird of Prey' in Search for Spock was designed with Romulan influences.  Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator rules include the Bird of Prey variants in the Romulan fleets too but I have left them out of my Romulan designs shown here.   There is a real lack of Fan Designs for the Romulans so as a result, FASAs STSTCS is my source for TMP designs.

I have the 'Wing' type ships that don't have the classic TOS Bird or Prey look as the TMP Era Romulan ships.  The Wing Of Vengeance is actually a very early design in STSTCS but it does not fit the look of the other TOS ships I have this as an updated version of that ship to fit this era.

They still include the Cloaking Field but they do have higher thrust across the board with most ships having Thrust 6.  The Plasma weapons are back and hull values are still weak but with a higher percentage of hull but no armor.  Some of the STSTCS designs used photon torpedoes and not big plasma weapons, but I didn't go with that, these all have big balls of plasma.

T-5 FIRESTORM class Destroyer Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 30 NPV 124 - CPV 103 Hull 6 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 2 Beam Battery (All arcs) 1 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
T-10 BRIGHT ONE class Destroyer Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 36 NPV 151 - CPV 128 Hull 7 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
V-4 WING OF VENGEANCE class Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 38 NPV 157 - CPV 133 Hull 10 (Average) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 3 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, All arcs)
V-20 STAR SEEKER class Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 76 NPV 316 - CPV 298 Hull 15 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 3 Beam Battery (FP/F/FS) 1 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
V-11 STORMBIRD class Heavy Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 88 NPV 362 - CPV 351 Hull 20 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 2 Class 3 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS) The final wave of Klingon ships obtainted by the Romulans were K'Tinga versions fully stripped down and required much more effort to refit. As a result it is still very similar to the KR in some ways but the exterior details were modified to a Romulan aesthetic.
V-7 WHITEWIND class Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 96 NPV 401 - CPV 397 Hull 16 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 1 Class 2 Beam Battery (FP/F/FS) 2 Class 3 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 3 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
V-27 COMET OF DESTRUCTION class Heavy Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 108 NPV 448 - CPV 457 Hull 20 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 2 Class 2 Beam Battery (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 3 Class 3 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS, F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
V-30 WINGED DEFENDER class Heavy Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 122 NPV 501 - CPV 528 Hull 24 (Weak) Thrust 6 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 1 Class 2 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS) 3 Class 3 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS, F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 3 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
Z-1 NOVA class Battleship Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 210 NPV 887 - CPV 1118 Hull 40 (Weak) Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 3 Fire Controls Level 1 Screens 4 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS, A/AP/FP, A/AS/FS) 4 Class 3 Beam Batteries (2xFP/F/FS, F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 2 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launchers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 4 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)