Romulan Star Empire

The Original Series 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 TOS Era Notes:
I have grouped the 'Eagle' type ships as the TOS Era Romulan ships consisting mostly of the ADB Star Fleet Battles designs with a few of the appropirate FASA STSTCS designs that fit that look an feel.  Including the Cloaking Field doesn't leave much space for other systems so as a result, this era of Romulan ship has lower thrust than the ships from other powers and thrust 4 is as high as it goes.  Their Plasma weapons also take up a lot of space so hull values are weak and usually under 20% but this era does get a bit of armour to obsorb some more damage.  Romulan ships also have fewer Fire Controls than other races and only the largest ships have defensive screens.

SNIPE class Frigate Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 20 NPV 86 - CPV 69 Hull 4 (Weak) Armour 1 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 1 Beam Battery 1 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launchers (FP/F/FS)
K5R RAPIER class Destroyer Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 22 NPV 91 - CPV 74 Hull 6 (Weak) Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 2 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS) 1 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
V-1 STARGLIDER class Destroyer Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 24 NPV 87 - CPV 69 Hull 4 (Weak) Armor 1 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, All arcs)
BATTLEHAWK class Destroyer Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 32 NPV 134 - CPV 112 Hull 6 (Weak) Armour 1 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 2 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS) 2 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launcher (2xFP/F/FS)
WARBIRD (Bird of Prey) class Cruiser (Sub-Light) Source: Star Trek "Balance of Terror" Mass 42 NPV 180 - CPV 156 Hull 8 (Weak) Thrust 3 Armour 3 Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 4 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS) From the Origial Series Episode "Balance of Terror" this older ship is not warp (FTL) capable and is basically a huge plasma weapon with a ship wrapped around it.
WAR EAGLE class Cruiser (Warp Drive) Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 50 NPV 211 - CPV 186 Hull 8 (Weak) Armour 2 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 3 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS) After the initial contact with the Federation, the Romulans had contact with the Klingons and from them received warp technology and some older D6/7 hulls in exchange for giving the Klingons cloaking tech (Original series episode "Enterprise Incident")  The existing sub-light Bird-Of-Preys were refit with warp drives and their plasma weapon reduced in size and beam weapons added to make them more versitile.
V-9 NIGHT FLYER class Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 58 NPV 247 - CPV 223 Hull 8 (Weak) Armor 2 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 1 Fire Control 1 Class 2 Beam Batteries (All arcs) 2 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launchers (FP/F/FS)
V-6 GALLANT WING class Cruiser Source: FASA Star Trek Starship Tactical Combat Simulator Mass 60 NPV 253 - CPV 229 Hull 10 (Weak) Armor 3 Thrust 4 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 3 Class 2 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS, F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 3 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)
KR KESTREL class Heavy Cruiser Source: Star Trek "The Enterprise Incident" / Star Trek: The Animated Series "The Survivor", "The Practical Joker" ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 54 NPV 220 - CPV 195 Hull 14 (Average) Thrust 5 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls 2 Class 1 Beam Batteries 1 Class 2 Beam Battery (FP/F/FS) 1 Class 2 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS) This is a heavily modified version of the Klingon D6/7 obtainted by the Romulans in the tech transfer to get warp drive.  A cloaking field and plasma launcher were added which severly effected the structural integrety of the ship.  This Romulan version of the D7 showed up in the Original series episode "Enterprise Incident" along with a couple episodes of the Star Trek Animated Series.  The image in the SSD is based on how the ship looked in the animated series.
VULTURE class Dreadnought Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 124 NPV 525 - CPV 555 Hull 22 (Weak) Armour 4 Thrust 3 FTL Cloaking Field 2 Fire Controls Level 1 Screens 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS, All arcs) 2 Class 3 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 2 Class 3 Plasma Bolt Launcher (2xFP/F/FS)
CONDOR class Dreadnought Source: ADB Star Fleet Battles Mass 160 NPV 674 - CPV 770 Hull 36 (Weak) Thrust 3 FTL Cloaking Field 3 Fire Controls Level 1 Screens 2 Class 2 Beam Batteries (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 3 Class 3 Beam Batteries (FP/F/FS, F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 2 Class 1 Plasma Bolt Launchers (F/FP/AP, F/FS/AS) 1 Class 4 Plasma Bolt Launcher (FP/F/FS)